Social Media

Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer has made the "difficult decision" to step down from his role, he announced Wednesday. Schroepfer, who has worked for the social network for 13 years ...

A YouTube channel featuring recreational fishing videos has been demonetised by the video-sharing giant over supposed content featuring ...

The Chinese version of TikTok, called Douyin, on Sept. 18 announced that it had placed limits on youth ...

You probably use a lot of technology to get your work done every day. Unfortunately, however, there are ...

By Mariel Otero del Río How addicted are you to your cellphone? How much time do you spend ...

The head of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) said Twitter did not violate campaign finance laws by blocking ...

ABUJA—Nigeria said on Wednesday it expects to end its ban on Twitter in a "few more days," raising ...

Lawmakers are taking action on Facebook after a recent report revealed that the social media company is aware ...

Snapchat's owner has hired a longtime online safety advocate as its first global head of platform safety, Snap ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill passed by the GOP-led legislature that is designed to stop social ...

U.S. law enforcers are increasingly relying on geofence warrants, a new surveillance tactic that civil libertarians say violates ...

An expansive pro-Beijing influence operation has sought to sow division around the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic ...

At a weekly press conference Wednesday morning, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) criticized social media giants ...

Australia’s consumer watchdog is looking to introduce regulations to rein in anti-competitive behaviour from Apple, Google, Facebook, and ...

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a record 225-million-euro ($266 million) fine on WhatsApp Ireland for infringements of data ...

Twitter on Sept. 1 announced it is rolling out a new "Safety Mode" feature aimed at helping users deal with ...

The deletion of an Instagram account belonging to a mother whose Marine son was killed in Afghanistan last ...

Instagram will begin requiring users to confirm their birthdays as part of an effort to create new safety ...

LONDON/LAGOS—Nigeria expects to lift its ban on Twitter before the end of the year, Information Minister Lai Mohammed ...

BOSTON—Taliban websites that delivered the extremist group's official messages to Afghans and the world at large in five ...

Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn said this week they had moved to secure the accounts of Afghan citizens to protect them against being targeted amid the Taliban's swift takeover of the country. Facebook has temporarily ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed an amended complaint in its ongoing antitrust case against Facebook, accusing ...

In an episode of "Crossroads" titled “To Target Trump, Google Rewrote Its News Algorithms,” Joshua Philipp interviews Google ...

Twitter has announced it is testing a feature that lets people report tweets they think are misleading, with ...

Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio on Tuesday called for the banning of Chinese video sharing platform TikTok after ...

Facebook says it will maintain its ban of pro-Taliban content under "U.S. law” and that it has been ...

Facebook has announced plans to build an $800 million data center in Arizona, which is expected to support ...