Social Media
Articles involving social media businesses and their products, including Meta (Facebook, Instagram), X Corp (Twitter), Mastodon, LinkedIn and others.
Wisconsin golf course commemorates 9/11 anniversary with coupon in newspaper
A Wisconsin golf club is catching heat on Twitter and Facebook after the business ran an advertisement in a local newspaper commemorating the upcoming anniversary of the September 11 terror attack.
Hacker: VICE erroneously identified Syrian Electronic Army member
A member of the Syrian Electronic Army denied a report that claims to have revealed the identity of a hacker associated with the group.
Syrian Electronic Army compromises New York Times, Twitter, Huffington Post domain records
A phishing attack by the Syrian Electronic Army briefly took down the website of the New York Times and affected Twitter and the UK version of the Huffington Post Tuesday afternoon.
White House staffers phished by Syrian Electronic Army
The personal email accounts of three White House staff member was compromised by the Syrian Electronic Army over the weekend, a hacker with the group told The Desk on Tuesday.
Syrian Electronic Army targets Reuters corporate account
The Syrian Electronic Army is claiming responsibility for an attack on the Twitter account of Reuters' parent company Thomson Reuters.
Syrian Electronic Army compromises Sky News Android app
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on several Android applications for British Sky Broadcasting, including the Sky News app.
Syrian Electronic Army targets ITV News Twitter account
The Twitter account for the London bureau of ITV News was compromised on Friday just a few days after the social network service rolled out extra security meant to prevent such attacks.
Exclusive: Facebook testing Vine-like video for Instagram
Facebook is testing a video feature for its photo sharing social network Instagram similar in function to Twitter's Vine.
Financial Times website, Twitter feeds compromised
The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed responsibility for an attack on the website and Twitter feed of the Financial Times newspaper on Friday.
A conversation with the Syrian Electronic Army
The four-man hacking collective comprised of university students has successfully launched attacks against big name media companies for "distorting the facts" about the Syrian civil war.
Facebook makes debut on “Fortune 500” list
The social network joins Apple, Google and other prestigious tech companies on the annual Fortune list.
The 2013 social media strategy
This year, I'm going to collaborate with some amazing people -- both colleagues and competitors --, try out some new practices and somewhere along the way I hope to find the next big thing.