Category Archives: Indiana University
Concerned About What Facebook Knows About You? Check Out What Google Knows
Many users have been dropping Facebook, ceasing to use social media, or looking into the data that’s been collected about them. But if you think that what Facebook knows about you is scary, check out what Google knows about you. Dylan Curran, an information technology consultant, took a look at just what Google knew about […]
Partitioning Syria: Oil, Gas, And Peace
Authored by James Durso via OilPrice.com, It’s the 101st anniversary of the Sykes–Picot Agreement and, in light of the non-stop Syrian Civil War, it’s time to ask, “How’s that working out for you?” The Sykes–Picot Agreement formalized the British and French spheres of influence in the Middle East and set the stage for the French […]
Up To 15% Of Twitter Accounts Are Fake, Study Finds
In January, when we exposed that up to 350,000 Twitter accounts could be fake, the social media world started to question its own reality. Now, a study from USC and Indiana University, that Twitter has roughly 48 million active bot accounts. That's 15% of reported active users that are not human at all… Earlier this […]