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IRAN RESTRICTS WHATSAPP, INSTAGRAM AS PROTESTS GROW

Iran has restricted major social media platforms following the ongoing protest in Iran, because of the death of Masha Amini who was arrested in Tehran for allegedly wearing ‘an unsuitable attire’ and putting on her hijab headscarf improperly. The country curbed access to Instagram and WhatsApp, according to residents and internet observer NetBlocks. ⚠️ #Iran is now subject to the most severe…

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“Group chats aren’t the new AIM. They’re the new Facebook.”

Group Chats Are Making the Internet Fun Again

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If demographic changes are slow, technological changes can be swift. In the new millennium, major technology revolutions have occurred in broadband connectivity, social media use and mobile adoption. All three of them continued, and in some cases accelerated, during Obama’s presidency.

More than two-thirds of Americans owned a smartphone by 2015, six times the ownership levels at the dawn of Obama’s tenure. When Apple released the iPad halfway through Obama’s first term, a mere 3% of Americans owned tablets; nearly half had tablets by the end of 2015.

Although social media use was a signature aspect of Obama’s 2008 campaign, only one-third of Americans used social media that year. With the rise of Facebook, Twitter and other apps, social media use climbed to about three-quarters of online adults by 2015.

How America Changed During Barack Obama’s Presidency