Category: tumblr

Tumblr’s digital literacy campaign targets fake news and bullying

[ad_1] Tumblr is partnering with the UK nonprofit Ditch the Label, and their campaign will focus on six topics. Each topic will get a short explainer video, as well as an expert-guided discussion. New year, new digital tools! 📱 We partnered with @DitchtheLabel to create six short videos to help you develop a healthy relationship […]

Verizon will sell Tumblr to the owner of WordPress

[ad_1] And in case you’re wondering: no, Automattic won’t reverse the ban on adult content. He saw Tumblr as a companion to WordPress and “just fun.” It’s a low-key end to a long, rough chapter in Tumblr’s history. Yahoo bought the site in 2013 for a hefty $1.1 billion, but never really found a way […]

Social media is revolutionizing how scientists interact with the public

[ad_1] “It was right after the election and I noticed that there was all this energy in the community, thinking about how we could better communicate our science to the public,” University of Connecticut PhD student Sarah McAnulty told Engadget. “I thought we needed some way to engage scientists, in a low time-commitment, high-impact, kind […]

Russia worked hard to recruit social media users to campaign for Trump

[ad_1] According to the report, the IRA had dozens of employees who were responsible for “operating accounts and personas” on all these social media sites. The IRA referred to these employees as “specialists,” and they were in charge of creating pages that pretended to be personal accounts of people in the US and, later, fake […]