Internet culture

Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, will open a moderation office in Texas with an emphasis on fighting content linked to child sexual abuse, the company said.

On her TikTok account, where she has almost 100,000 followers, she describes herself as a former “cat burglar”

The parliament's digital media commission is currently working on a bill to regulate and monitor the content produced by high-profile accounts on social media, with several platforms facing potential bans, the commission head has said. 

Recent "challenge" trends on social media, which push children to compete and display power over themselves and each other and sometimes result in deaths and serious injuries around the world, have also spread among children in Türkiye, experts have warned.

A civil panel of the Riga District Court has ruled that the thumbs-up palm emoji in official correspondence can be interpreted as written consent, Latvian publication Delfi reported.

An IT law expert has revealed a disturbing trend where criminal gangs blackmail children using explicit content, leveraging their admiration for celebrities as a trap.

Recently, soaring numbers of children and young people are "catfished" through fake accounts while trying to meet a movie artist or a football player on social media platforms such as Instagram and TikTok.

Vacation is meant to be relaxing, exhilarating and insert all the other positive adjectives you like, but it is often stressful and disappointing. Traveling while fat can be both of those things, as well as dehumanizing and FOMO-inducing.

A phony social media account spread fake news on Wednesday that famous Greek singer Nana Mouskouri has passed away.

The gruesome news was announced in a fake Twitter account which carried the name and photo of the acting Minister of Culture and Sports Giorgos Koumendakis, who later posted that the fake account was created by Italian writer Tommaso Debenedetti.

There has been much talk, in this space and elsewhere, about the importance of courting digital nomads. Today, Greece is in heavy competition with many of its southern neighbors to attract those with the means and capacity to live and work from anywhere. Portugal has demonstrated particular success in this area.  

The photo caused outrage and toured the world. Some wrote that this kind of behavior was unacceptable, others that it was scandalous, and the majority condemned this type of photography in a place where so many people died.