The Hong Kong Palace Museum has said it did not authorise a third party to collect artefacts on its behalf and has urged people to remain vigilant after a social media post claimed “big money” was available for items. “The museum has noticed social media posts claiming to offer high prices to private collections on…
A man in China became the target of ridicule on mainland social media after spending over 4 million yuan (US$550,000) on tipping a live-streaming anchor, all in a desperate attempt to hear her call him “brother”. He resorted to eating plain steamed buns to survive amid his financial ruin. The man, whose surname is Hong,…
Australia’s controversial new law barring under-16s from social media is one of the toughest crackdowns yet on platforms including Facebook and TikTok as governments worldwide grasp for ways to protect children from harmful content. The blanket ban, passed late Thursday night, establishes some of the most stringent internet usage restrictions outside of China and other…
Remember a decade or so when almost everyone was scared to shop online? The idea of putting credit card numbers on the internet was frightening and many people swore they’d never do it. Just about all of those people do at least some Christmas shopping online. While that may not be a problem, hackers see…
Social media companies that do not enforce the ban could receive fines of up to AUS$50 million (US$32.5m). Australia’s Parliament has passed a law banning children aged under 16 from using social media, one of the strictest regulations targeting the platforms in the world. The law, which was passed by the Senate on Thursday, requires…
Last summer, Kristen Bell pretty much broke the internet with one simple dinner party Instagram snap. The Nobody Wants This star provided us with a photo jam-packed with even more stars than that viral Oscar’s one papped by Ellen DeGeneres back in 2014. And, it’s fair to say, the mere sight of all these beloved…
Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter has had two dominant ideological hallmarks. One is a slash-and-burn view of fixing a business, which Musk is now posturing that he’ll import to the federal government. The other is Musk’s devolution into a right-wing ideologue who promotes the “great replacement theory,” antisemitism, and the singular necessity of Donald Trump….
Social media start-up Bluesky is exploding as academics, journalist, and left-leaning politicians abandon Elon Musk’s X in search of bluer skies. Now, the platform has surpassed Meta’s Threads in user numbers, yet Threads still leads in app usage. According to data from Similarweb, app and website usage of Bluesky in the United States rose more…
A Hong Kong transgender woman has lodged complaints with authorities for being forced to come out at her workplace by a major bank after it informed her employer of an inconsistency in her retirement fund application and its previous records. In an interview with the Post, 26-year-old Christine Chu said she had sent the HSBC…
A Hong Kong transgender woman has lodged complaints with authorities for being forced to come out at her workplace by a major bank after it informed her employer of an inconsistency in her retirement fund application and its previous records. In an interview with the Post, 26-year-old Christine Chu said she had sent the HSBC…