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Disney’s cryptic ‘The Streamer’ hype is a new streaming

Disney’s cryptic hype around an event and an account identified as “The Streamer” predictably stoked the company’s rabid fanbases into fits of speculation — but this mystery is all marketing, literally.  Disney Plus’ Twitter account posted an inscrutable eyes-emoji-only tweet Monday afternoon directing followers to a new account called TheStreamer, which was virtually empty except for a little blue verified …

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Instagram will make accounts for teens private by default

Facebook-owned Instagram said Tuesday that it’ll make accounts for some teenagers private by default, a move that comes amid concerns from US politicians that social media could have harmful effects on young people.  Instagram users under the age of 16, or 18 in some countries, will have their accounts set to private by default when they join the social media …

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