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Social Media
Candidates receive four times the amount of online abuse than 2017 election
Political candidates during the General Election campaign have received an estimated four times the amount of online abuse than in the 2017 campaign, according to research.
Corbyn dismisses controversy surrounding leaked NHS documents as ‘nonsense’
Jeremy Corbyn has dismissed as “nonsense” the controversy surrounding the source of leaked documents used by Labour as proof the Tories are planning to sell the NHS.
Labour pushed voter registration online more than any other party
Labour and some of its high-profile supporters did more to push people to register to vote than any other party, social media statistics show.
Hillary Clinton criticises online attacks on female politicians
Hillary Clinton has criticised the “heavily misogynistic” atmosphere online which has seen female parliamentary candidates announce they are not standing in the General Election.
Hillary Clinton voices concerns about impact of social media on young women
Hillary Clinton has said that the idea of perfection that is often portrayed on social media is “insidious” and undermines the confidence of young women.
Twitter working on fix for worldwide outages across main service and TweetDeck
An outage has hit Twitter, preventing some users from tweeting, receiving notifications and viewing direct messages.
Hundreds of millions of Facebook user phone numbers exposed
Facebook has confirmed that hundreds of millions of user phone numbers were left in an unprotected server, which reportedly included several million British details.
Meet the Instagran: Sharon Gillespie, 69, shares a snapshot of her very busy life as an international hands-on granny
When mum-of-two Sharon Gillespie, 69, from Bearsden, isn’t jetting off to visit her grandchildren in Canada or sunning herself in Vegas with her retiree husband David, 71, she is off to Zumba or sightseeing in Scotland with her friends.
Chinese propaganda units suspected of hounding Scots swimmer Duncan Scott with online trolling after medal row
State-sponsored trolls are suspected of launching an online offensive against Scots swimmer Duncan Scott.
Rona Dougall: Facebook can’t just pass the buck as suicide rates among young soar
I’m so thankful the internet wasn’t around when I was growing up and I feel sorry for youngsters nowadays who have to deal with it.