Technology

By Leens Witts When it comes to living your best work life, it’s not always easy to stay on task especially when there are so many distractions around you, There are ways to increase your productivity through some different means, How you get to be productive depends so much on who you are, how you process information, as well as …

The government has maintained a shutdown on Facebook, despite opening all other social media platforms, a month after they were frozen. The government blocked Facebook after the microblogging site pulled down accounts of pro-National Resistance Movement users. During the same time, the government blocked all other social media sites, among them, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram and WhatsApp.  All Ugandans who wanted …

A Facebook report released yesterday indicated that it had pulled down 220 Facebook accounts, 32 Facebook pages, 59 groups, and 139 Instagram accounts in Uganda. The report confirms that all these accounts were all linked to the Government Citizen Interaction Centre at the Ministry of Information. According to Facebook, the users duplicated accounts, used fake accounts to support President Museveni, …

When President-Elect Joe Biden takes office next month, the @POTUS Twitter account will be wiped of its followers, The Verge reports. As Biden’s digital director Rob Flaherty revealed on Twitter, the social media platform has informed Biden’s team that the @POTUS and @WhiteHouse accounts will start with zero followers. By contrast, the Trump administration’s official accounts “absorbed” all of Obama’s followers when he took office roughly four years ago, …

The Rwanda Media Commission (RMC) has begun registering YouTube channels in a new crackdown on content deemed ‘unprofessional’ where registration requires Rwf 50,000 ($52) for owners who must prove that they are trained journalists, an authoritative source revealed Friday to APA in Kigali.The RMC fashions itself as the local media’s self-regulatory body, but is funded by the government. According to …