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Embrace, an awareness support network based in Lebanon, has partnered with the social media giant Facebook to support the ongoing campaign “Talking Saves Lives.”  The campaign  has been developed to mark the Embrace Lifeline (1564)- which is the first suicide prevention helpline in Lebanon and the Middle East. “A lot of people resort to social […]

By Mario Morby Words like violence Break the silence Come crashing in Into my little world Enjoy the silence.  Lyrics from one of, if not, the greatest song of the 90s?  Don’t know. Maybe.  As much as I’d like to debate music from the 90s that would sort of contradict what I’m about to say, which […]

Fake news may be a top concern for media, politics and society in general, but they’re only the first stage in another worrisome development. Indeed, when the reality of fake news exploded into public view with the 2016 US presidential elections, the concept of invented information created and disseminated to purposefully confuse, manipulate and/or polarize […]

By Sawsan Ghanem, joint managing director and co-founder, Active DMC With IoT and the reality of our connected world today, the pressures on brands are unrelenting and their need for a PR partner and strategic content marketing consul, is a matter of necessity. Companies of all sizes, government bodies, personalities, NGOs and more all have […]

Image credit: Guillermo Gutierrez/Bloomberg Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally broke his silence about the abuse of data on the platform by Cambridge Analytica, promising to redouble efforts to safeguard user privacy after the exposure of the massive data breach. Since Friday, Facebook has been on the defensive over reports that Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained data […]

A new study by communications and PR agency Edelman called the “Trust Barometer” has brought to light some interesting findings on trust in the government and media. The report finds that after China, the UAE is the world’s second most trusting country in government. Credibility towards a government official or regulator increased 11 points among the informed […]

By Victoria Cross, head of business resilience at Instinctif Partners on managing crisis communications  Managing any crisis is demanding, but of all the crises one of the most difficult to handle in communications terms must be when an aircraft crashes. Two starkly contrasting examples of how to handle, and how not to handle crisis communications […]

In typical UAE style, the Dubai World Trade Centre set a Guinness World Record for most participants riding in a virtual reality (VR) roller coaster in one hour. Driven by Samsung, the activity saw 461 participants using Samsung Gear headsets to experience a virtual roller coaster ride in a 4DX theatre at GITEX. While the […]

  Midway through Israel’s 22-day “Cast Lead” offensive on Gaza in late 2008 and into 2009 – which cost the lives of 1,400 Palestinians, according to think-tank Global Research – Mashable reported that Twitter, back then a startup, had registered a staggering growth of 752 percent. A few months earlier, Facebook had officially outstripped MySpace […]