Social Media

After years of ogling beautiful images of food, fashion, and design on Instagram, people will now be able to buy things they see and like directly through the app—providing instant ...

NEW YORK—U.S. federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook Inc struck with some of ...

NEW YORK—The latest parental panic on social media—over a purported challenge for kids to complete harmful tasks—elevates the ...

Facebook engineers have proposed measures to suppress content on the platform that attempts to convince people to shift ...

NEW YORK—Several phone apps are sending sensitive user data, including health information, to Facebook without users’ consent, according ...

LONDON—U.S. social-media bosses could face arrest if they fail to moderate harmful content on their sites, the UK ...

Commentary In the rush to exploit today’s social-media data, people are finding it increasingly difficult to separate fact ...

LONDON—Facebook said on Jan. 17, it removed hundreds of Russia-linked pages, groups and accounts that it says were ...

UPS quickly deleted a tweet, a message posted on the Twitter social media website, after swift backlash to ...

A Texas mother keen to set up her single son on a date was successful in doing so ...

Four major U.S. public funds that hold shares in Facebook Inc. on Oct. 17 proposed removing Chief Executive ...

Friday, Oct. 12, was Brian Amerige's last day at Facebook after nearly seven years. “This was a difficult ...

Google-owned YouTube said on Oct. 16 that a widespread issue with some of its services has been resolved, ...

A nonprofit organization was unable to promote several tweets that included the terms “illegal alien” and “criminal alien” ...

Homer’s "Iliad" is usually thought of as the first work of European literature, and many would say, the ...

Text messaging is now the most popular form of communication among teenagers, according to a survey conducted by ...

An apparent Iranian influence operation targeting internet users worldwide is significantly bigger than previously identified, Reuters has found, ...

A New York man charged with trying to defraud Facebook Inc founder Mark Zuckerberg is fighting extradition from ...

NEW DELHI—India said Facebook-owned WhatsApp had pledged on Aug. 21 to develop tools that would combat fake messages, ...

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Vice President Del Harvey said they plan to further “evolve” the social-media platform's ...

MUMBAI/BENGALURU—Facebook Inc's WhatsApp is rolling out a global test measure to rein in messages forwarded by users, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO—Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday ordered one of the biggest management shakeups in the ...

SAN JOSE, California—Facebook Inc is entering the dating game, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday, planning a ...

More evidence has emerged to support the widely held suspicion that China’s most popular messaging app, WeChat, is ...

WhatsApp has announced it will ban people under the age of 16 from using its service in the ...

WASHINGTON–Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's No. 1 mission during his appearance before U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday ...

Facebook is giving users more control over their privacy by making data management easier and redesigning the settings ...