Snapchat has introduced a range of features, both functional and protective, aimed at enhancing user experience while ensuring safety for kids and teens. Here’s a breakdown of Snapchat’s features and how they are working towards protecting minors on the platform. Snapchat offers several different features and understanding all of them can be difficult at times. […]
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Tips to Identify Fake Images Online in 2023
Identifying a fake image online can be challenging as technology has made it easier to manipulate images. In a blog post from 2020, titled “OSINT Research & False Positives” we discussed how easy it was to create a computer generated image. However, fast forward to 2023, with the explosion of artificial intelligence, creating computer generated […]
The TikTok Influence
The world just doesn’t know what to do with TikTok. For what appears to be the umpteenth time, news outlets are covering the famous app as U.S. lawmakers work to ban it in the United States. Over 1 billion people tune in to the app monthly, and for reference that closely follows the 1.4 billion […]
Tik Tok- The 6th Most Used Social Media App in the World
Once again Tik Tok has been in the news. The app has received its share of scrutiny over the past few years. We will go into some this later in the blog. For now, let’s take a look at why it is so popular and with whom. The app gained huge popularity during Covid while […]
Fake Profiles & Online Impersonation
When watching my local news the other evening, I heard of a case that really surprised me. A Town Commissioner of a small town in North Carolina, disagreed with his fellow board members over a specific topic. So much so, that he decided to create a fake Facebook profile and use it to harrass and […]