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Sourced from the MySPR system, over 800,000 Malaysian users’ personal data such as selfies and their MyKad used in Electronic Know Your Customer (eKYC) for the function of voting has been stolen. Even worse, this information is now being offered for sale on a website forum for US$2,000 (RM9,240), with

In the pre-Elon Musk era of Twitter, the platform offered blue check marks to politicians, celebrities, media personnel and prominent personalities after verifying those accounts. However, that might not be the case for the new Twitter Blue users. You will get the coveted blue checkmark but it won’t mean it

Meta Platforms Inc is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported yesterday citing people familiar with the matter, with an announcement planned as early as Wednesday. Meta declined to comment on the WSJ report. Facebook parent Meta in October forecasted

As the content sphere grows ever larger with multiple creators pushing content through, there is a crucial need for more effective regulation. Merely relying on third-party controls over content is no longer a viable option, especially when anyone and everyone can become content creators in a digital realm where the

The recently concluded Supercharge Lab Turbocharge.Live 2022, Marketing Tech, Future Forward virtual conference brought together a full roster of marketing tech ecosystem players consisting of marketers, marketing techies as well as entrepreneur & tech enablers from Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Brunei Darussalam, the Philippines and India. Attendees were also recorded

Over the week, Elon Musk took over Twitter. Instagram was down on Monday morning. Meta’s photo-sharing platform might be no stranger to outages, but this incident was different. After coming back online on Monday, it mysteriously suspended several accounts. Some users have also complained of a purge in organic followers, a spike in bot

Shopee Malaysia hosted the Future of E-Commerce with Malaysian Influencers, a virtual forum discussing the relatability of influencer community online. The panel featured four keynote speakers: Hanita Sayuti (Shopee Bintang Seller), Nikki Wong (Shopee Livestream Influencer), Syazwani Md Saad (Shopee Affiliate), and Mr Kenneth Soh (Head of Marketing Campaigns at

Twitter will charge US$8 (RM38) per month to verify users’ accounts as mentioned yesterday by Elon Musk, new Twitter Head.  Reason being, is to tackle the issues that may arise when it comes to arguing the plan bots and trolls as well as generating a new source of income for

Elon Musk has officially completed his acquisition of Twitter, and his first order of business was to “clean house.” The on-again, off-again story of Musk buying the social media platform has finally concluded, with Musk taking control of the company in the final days of October. On Tuesday, Musk began moving