Social Media

The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has imposed a record 225-million-euro ($266 million) fine on WhatsApp Ireland for infringements of data protection rules on Sept. 2. It follows an inquiry into the messaging ...

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 ...

SHANGHAI—Chinese authorities have arrested a top public relations executive at Chinese social media giant Weibo Corp, local Chinese ...

By Dylan Vanas Social media can be an extremely valuable platform for a wide variety of uses, but ...

After Facebook blocked an ad honoring a police officer injured in the line of duty, the Illinois Association ...

WASHINGTON—A senior Federal Trade Commission official is criticizing Facebook’s move to shut down the personal accounts of two ...

Facebook “coordinated closely” with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in controlling the narrative of the ...

BRUSSELS—EU antitrust regulators opened an in-depth investigation on Monday into Facebook's acquisition of U.S. customer service startup Kustomer, ...

Former President Donald Trump's legal team has amended his class-action lawsuit against Big Tech to incorporate additional class ...

YouTube has temporarily suspended Sky News Australia from posting on its video platform, issuing a first strike to ...

MOSCOW—Russia on Friday launched administrative proceedings against Facebook's WhatsApp for what it said was a failure to localize ...

The growing number of people banned from Big Tech platforms is leading to a wave of self-censorship, journalist ...

Twitter has announced it's closing its two largest offices in New York City and San Francisco, which reopened ...

Google “unfairly and excessively” charges people for digital purchases in its Play Store, a new legal action brought ...

MOSCOW—A Moscow court ordered Google on Thursday to pay a fine of 3 million rubles (roughly $41,000) for ...

BERLIN—A German federal court on Thursday faulted aspects of Facebook's handling of "hate speech," at least in the ...