Marianna Lozowska/Ryersonian In an era of funding cuts and attacks on news media, five startups geared toward digital disruption in Canada’s news sector had the unique fortune to take home…
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In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco that saw personal data of 50 million users compromised, Ryerson president Mohamed Lachemi said that the university is assessing Facebook’s Digital News…
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As Ryerson’s school of journalism and Facebook partner to support digital news startups, faculty hope to address the challenges of working with a company that has disrupted the journalism landscape.
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The social media giant is launching a pilot project that encourages users to send their intimate photos to the company in an effort to prevent online revenge porn. To preemptively stop a potential nude leaker, users can give their photos to Facebook via messenger and tag the photo as a non-consensual file. Facebook will digitally track the photo with metadata technology to prevent others from uploading the image.
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If you’re an avid tweeter, then you probably already heard about Twitter’s most recent upgrade – a doubling of its character count from 140 to 280.
Twitter, a social app, gives users the ability to express their thoughts or “tweet,” and has been up and running since 2006.
