Social Media

Facebook has encouraged some of its employees to probe the background of conservative commentator Candace Owens for anything that could give the social media giant grounds to kick her off ...

After a seemingly endless stream of conservative personalities being banned from social media platforms, the right-leaning community and ...

An American online news and social networking service is being questioned after it banned a user for doing ...

HYDERABAD, India/SAN FRANCISCO—Over the past year, a team of as many as 260 contract workers in Hyderabad, India ...

President Donald Trump came to the defense of popular conservative commentators who have been censored by tech companies ...

A man instructed his pit bull to attack police officers in Florida, but the dog turned on him, ...

STERLING, Virginia—President Donald Trump criticized social media companies after Facebook banned a number of extremist figures, declaring that ...

Popular Chinese short-form video app TikTok is not suspending the accounts of people who send sexual messages to ...

Facebook Inc said it restored services on Sunday, April 14, after some users could not access its social ...

Users of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp across the world reported problems accessing the platforms on the morning of ...

Facebook Inc said on Wednesday, April 3, that it removed public databases containing its user data on Amazon.com ...

Social media executives whose websites broadcast horrific terror attacks could face jail or billions of dollars in fines ...

LONDON—Facebook is lifting the lid on the algorithm that decides which posts appear in its news feed, as ...

Scores of people on Twitter are saying the social-media platform was preventing them from following the account of ...

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development said it’s charging Facebook Inc. with allegedly violating the Fair ...

After years of ogling beautiful images of food, fashion, and design on Instagram, people will now be able ...

President Donald Trump said on March 19 that he plans to investigate Facebook's apparent decision to censor one of ...

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 ...