Technology

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 …

A number of Ugandans on Twitter have come out to reveal that they are receiving several messages of intimidation and death threats from unknown numbers warning them to stop talking bad about the ruling government. One of the victims is Namanya who took to his twitter saying he was getting numerous messages threatening his life Lmaoo Ashburg Kato and group …

News reaching us reveals that the Uganda police website has been down for several hours following a hack by an international Hacktivists’ group; Anonymous. We visited the site; https://www.upf.go.ug/ and realized it is redirecting to a different address which shows nothing. We can not ably establish for exactly how long the site has been down but we can confirm that …

NBS TV news anchor is currently recovering from a cyber attack by Ugandans on Twitter(UOT) who have given the former headache over his account usage. Apparently it all started when Samson(in a tweet) that the current generation has wrong values praising his workmate Canary Mugume for standing out in such a generation. “If half the young people were half as …