Twitter has made good on its promises to crack down on tweets that contain misleading information about COVID-19. The platform has deleted tweets by the presidents of Brazil and Venezuela and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani for violating…
For many beginners , the line between search engine optimization and social media can sometimes blur. Does your social media support or even help your search engine rankings? How does optimizing for search on social media affect your profile’s chance of…
Research just published by the Linterman lab shows that the immune system of older mice can be given a helping hand by applying immunology expertise and some genital wart treatment (don’t try this at home just yet)! Mice and humans…
Zoom is an too easy-to-use videoconferencing tool that comes with a generous free tier. With people around the world isolating indoors to protect themselves against the spread of the coronavirus, it has become more popular. But its popularity has also made…
Everyone is talking about the coronavirus pandemic in real life and it is the same with people on the internet. Reddit is no different and there are many subreddit dedicated to the crisis including r/Coronavirus (1.4 million members) and r/Covid19…
Twitter briefly locked conservative site The Federalist’s account. The account promoted the medically unreliable idea of “medical chickenpox parties” to infect young, healthy people with the virus under controlled quarantine. The tweet was removed for violating the social media platform’s…
Very bad to know about the novel coronavirus appears to be contagious. We are finding many news online about coronavirus but not all of them are true. So, there are some steps you can take to verify information on social media about…
Yelp has announced that people will be able to donate to local businesses struggling with coronavirus-related closures via Yelp pages. In addition to asking the public for donations, Yelp and GoFundMe have promised to match up to $1 million placed…
Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted on Saturday that the company was donating “millions of masks for health professionals in the US and Europe,” to help combat the spread of the novel coronavirus. Cook’s tweet confirms a statement made earlier by…
A week ago, US President Donald Trump held a press conference where he claimed Google would be building a screening website for the coronavirus that would direct people to testing sites. However, as we learned in the following days, that…
