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The Epilepsy Foundation is striking back against a campaign by Twitter trolls to flood some hashtags with flashing GIFs designed to trigger seizures in vulnerable individuals. The cyber-attacks follow on from a similar attack on a journalist in 2016.

A look at the three technologies that radically changed our world over the past 10 years – smartphones, streaming and social media – and where the next decade may lead us.

Facebook and Twitter have recently laid out differing policies regarding political advertising. One platform has decided free speech is of utmost importance while the other has simply banned political ads altogether.

On Tuesday, Barack Obama used the annual Obama Foundation Summit to criticize call-out culture, with his use of the term "woke" garnering particular attention. But what is woke culture, and did Obama really just call it out?

Unlike Twitter, Mastodon's messages are distributed across independent servers with their own communities and rules. But it's just one example of this new breed of website which makes up the fediverse, which may just buck the trend of locking content behind walled gardens like Twitter and Facebook.

During the recent Future Investment Initiative in Saudi Arabia it was revealed that Sophia, a robot constructed by Hong Kong company Hanson Robotics, has been granted citizenship marking the first time in the world a government has granted citizenship rights to a robot.

Through all its design changes, one thing has stayed the same with Twitter: the character count. Since it launched in 2006, the social network has enforced a 140-character limit on all posts. That could all be set to change, pending the results of a limited trial that is currently underway.

Companies have been working to perfect a camera that blends effortlessly into the wearer's life. With two cameras and the ability to livestream through Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, it's designed to make chronicling the events of your day easier than ever.

​Twitter and the US government are at legal loggerheads after the social media platform filed a lawsuit in response to a demand from the Department of Homeland Security seeking the identity of an anonymous anti-Trump account.

Twitter Lite offers all the key features of the social media platform​, but takes up less than 1 MB of your mobile device's storage. It also loads faster, is more resilient on shaky mobile networks and incorporates a data saver mode.

Today on its blog, Twitter announced new efforts targeting abuse and harassment. The social media platform is attempting to curb banned users from creating new accounts, rolling out a "safe search" option and removing abusive, low-quality tweets from prominent places in the reply feed.

As several internet giants are currently grappling with the conundrum of how to deal with the influx of digitally driven "fake news" we can pause for a moment and ask, what is driving this movement and where did it come from?