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Social media ban for kids?
News, Published on 12/01/2026
» Australia notched up a world first last December when it imposed a nationwide social media ban on users under 16 through the Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill. The law prohibits them from holding accounts on major platforms including TikTok, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat and Threads.
Social media mask sales flout rules
Business, William Hicks, Published on 21/03/2020
» As the government attempts to crack down on overpriced face masks at stores and e-commerce websites, Facebook's marketplace has become a hotbed of mask price gouging, with some sold for five times the government-enforced limit.
Forget social media and try twitter
Life, Pongpet Mekloy, Published on 10/04/2020
» By now, you are probably either getting used to social distancing or feeling bored to death by the lockdown. If you're in the first group, kudos to you. But suppose you're among the latter bunch for whom binge-watching and all those silly social media challenges no longer, or never, work, there is still another thing you may wish to try: listening to bird songs.
Social media giants in govt crosshairs
News, Komsan Tortermvasana, Published on 25/09/2020
» The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society yesterday asked technology crime suppression police to prosecute major social media providers for failing to remove all illegal posts they were warned about.
Social media gets bounce from protests
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 17/10/2020
» Fresh political tensions have spurred communication on social media, with posts shooting up almost 100% from normal days to 40 million on Thursday, says social media analytics firm Wisesight.
Fight turns to social media app
News, Post Reporters, Published on 19/10/2020
» Free Youth and the United Front for Thammasat and Demonstration (UFTD) on Sunday asked their social media followers to switch to communicating with them through Telegram, a messaging application, following rumours the government would ask Facebook to take the groups' pages down.
Social media gets splurge season ready
Business, Suchit Leesa-nguansuk, Published on 10/11/2020
» Social media giants Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are gearing up for social commerce, a flourishing 61.9-billion-baht segment in Thailand, for the festive shopping season, starting with the 11.11 mega-sales event.
Thai Pakdee urges 'social media reform'
Online Reporters, Published on 17/12/2020
» A royalist group has given the Digital Economy and Society Ministry 30 days to quickly conduct social media reform or face an escalating demand.
Social media a double-edged sword
News, Published on 28/02/2018
» Donald Trump's retweets of anti-Muslim videos first circulated by an anti-immigrant, right-wing British party were just the tip of the iceberg. From Myanmar to the United States, controversial posts by political leaders and public figures have sparked a growing and increasingly global debate about how social media may be facilitating the spread of hatred and discrimination.
Is social media just another addiction?
News, Noah Smith, Published on 06/04/2018
» With Facebook enduring a wave of public criticism for its cavalier approach to user privacy, it's becoming more apparent how important social media has become. I suspect it will be many years before the true scale and scope of the changes are appreciated, and even then much will never be fully understood. The era when humans interacted mainly by gathering in physical space, or maintained personal networks through one-to-one connections, has drawn to a close, and the next generation won't even really understand what that era was like. Social media has changed the meaning of human life itself.