It’s World Press Freedom Day, and we thought we’d explore the idea of whether or not Social Media sites should be responsible for the news that they show. Do they have a right to censor what we see there, and more importantly, if we give them the power of curation, how do we know that we can trust their sources?

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We’ve often theorized about phones secretly recording our conversations and using that data to show us eerily accurate ads on various social media platforms. But according to Google’s former design ethicist, phones don’t need to eavesdrop on our conversations at all, because the truth of how these ads work is a lot more unsettling.

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Over the past number of years, Facebook has been under heavy scrutiny with privacy issues. They even hinted in its latest earnings report that it’s expecting to pay between $3 to $5 billion in fines for violating the privacy agreement with the US Federal Trade Commission. So it’s not a surprise that at its recent F8 Developers Conference, Mark Zuckerberg wants the social media network to be a privacy-focused social network. But do we trust them?

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Indonesia are seriously considering moving their capital city due to overcrowding and the possibility of the north of the island sinking due to climate change. If you had the opportunity to ‘push the reset button’ on our capital city, what would you change?

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The number of dead people on Facebook could outnumber the living within 50 years, according to analysis from the Oxford Internet Institute (OII).

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Buy. Sell. Uncage. Welcome to the world of Depop - a social shopping app that’s been described as a mix of eBay and Instagram - that is perfectly in line with Gen Z’s shopping habits, and is bringing about major change in the fashion industry.

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The popularity of the influencer seems to be steadily declining, but here to take its place isn’t a new social media archetype, but one from the past. “The slacker”, a personality type that defined the 90s, is apparently making a comeback... and will start to once again define the way we browse, focus, and shop online.

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Speedhome (Speedrent) recently raised RM2.5 mil from 206 investor via equity crowdfunding platform, pitchIN. This is the largest deal thus far on ECF in Malaysia for 2019 and the 29th company to successfully raise funds for pitchIN. The equity crowdfunding market is clearly on the rise.

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Most people bristle at the term ‘networking’ – not because they are bad at it, but because it sounds transactional and disingenuous. Well, here’s a way to fix that.

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Ever walk into a networking event or party and all you hear is superficial chit-chat? The small talk is deafening and doesn't evolve into anything substantial. As it turns out, the types of conversations you're engaging in truly matter for your personal wellbeing. In 2010, scientists from the University of Arizona and Washington University in St. Louis investigated whether happy and unhappy people differ in the types of conversations they have.

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