⚡️ Dimple's Digital Digest: 23 April ⚡️
Welcome to your weekly round-up of what’s hot and what’s not in the digital world.
This week we cover fresh hell inside Facebook, famous hedgehogs on Instagram, and banning the far-right online.
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📉 15 months of fresh hell inside Facebook…
✊ And why it could be threatening democracy…
📈 Yet its private Groups continue to thrive
🦔 Hedgehogs are Instagram’s most miserable celebrities
📱 Vine is still big on YouTube - but who’s getting paid?
👤 LinkedIn has a serious fake-profile problem
🕵️♂️ Are you using the most-hacked password?
WINS OF THE WEEK:
☕ Yorkshire Tea launches campaign for a true tea emoji
👑 Princess Diaries author Meg Cabot makes perfect Game of Thrones joke
🍦 Ben & Jerry’s has an important message in light of 4/20
HEY THAT’S COOL:
⛳ Nike celebrates Tiger Woods’ Masters victory
💑 A heartwarming love story in the age of social media
🍺 Carlsberg is using mean tweets to promote its new brew
UH OH:
🚫 Facebook finally bans far-right groups including the BNP
✅ Twitter continues to verify users despite ‘pause’
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka blocks social media after attacks - but the problem is bigger
BONUS!
🤳 From Shakespeare to Instagram, a brief history of the influencer
🧽 If you follow too many people, it’s time to Marie Kondo it
🔒 What do you do if your iPad was locked for 25 million minutes?
💆 Singer Billie Eilish is now an ASMR icon
🔑 Why privacy has become too big to understand