(Reuters) — Vietnam on Thursday called on all companies doing business there to stop advertising on YouTube, Facebook and other social media until they find a way to halt the publication of “toxic” anti-government information.
Top executives from the UK arms of Facebook, Twitter, and Google appeared in front of the Home Affairs Select Committee on Tuesday and were grilled about an apparent failure to tackle ‘hate speech’ on their platforms. The committee directed most
The UK Government Communications Headquarters, a British intelligence and security organization, recently stated that social networks such as Twitter and Facebook need to do more to combat “fake news.”
Creepers of the web, rejoice! Now you can find someone’s social media account just by taking their picture.
Gina Caze is accused of watching as her 14-year-old daughter, Nakia Venant, streamed herself committing suicide via Facebook Live, allegedly doing nothing to help the young girl.
Facebook is denying the use of its collected user data to law enforcement and also start-up companies that would sell that data to law enforcement customers.
James McDaniel created a fake news website in February just for fun. In less than two weeks, UndergroundNewsReport.com had garnered more than 1 million page views and hundreds of dollars in advertising revenue.
Advertisers are favoring Facebook over Twitter at an “increasing rate,” as the latter continues to fall in value, according to Investopedia.
According to CNN, the famed Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is looking into the online publication of hundreds of “explicit photos of current and former female Marines and other service members.”
Snapchat’s parent, Snap Inc., saw its stock jump by 60 percent in its first two days of trading, but has plunged by $14 billion since Friday’s close.
Facebook reported a group of BBC journalists to the police after they highlighted and sent the social network images that broke the site’s terms of service during an investigation on pedophiles.
An online robot lawyer designed to help people overturn unfair parking tickets has been adapted by its creator to help migrants claim asylum in the U.S., Canada, and Britain.
WURZBURG (GERMANY) (AFP) – A German court was due to rule Tuesday on a dispute between Facebook and a Syrian refugee whose post of a selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel fuelled fake news linking him to terrorism.
Facebook has agreed to stop selling information gathered from users’ private messages to third-party ad services.
Facebook has begun to mark content that may be false with a tag reading “disputed” as part of their promise to crack down on “fake news.”
In another sign of how Silicon Beach is winning the geek culture war with Silicon Valley, the Snap, Inc. stock price is up 60 percent in its second day of trading versus Facebook IPO shares price crashing by 47 percent in the first three months after their IPO.
Facebook is trying to shore up their faltering venture into virtual reality with serious price cuts across the board on Oculus Rift hardware.
A new lawsuit argues that Facebook allowed anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content to spread across their platform, putting the lives of Israeli citizens in danger during a wave of violent attacks on Israelis by Palestinians in 2015.
White House social media director Dan Scavino tells Breitbart News he is “not surprised” that President Donald J. Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening shattered records on social media in terms of engagement with the American public.
Facebook has unveiled new features designed to help those with suicidal tendencies following a recent trend of suicides broadcast via Facebook Live.
Google and Facebook will be working with the mainstream media to tell voters “what and who to trust”, including “memes, comment threads and news sites”, in the lead up to the French elections.
Digital expert Matthew Brown told Full Measure host Sharyl Attkisson that users on social media were being misled about support for Obamacare by paid posters.
Medical company Medtronic disavowed one of their employee’s comments after they were called out by White House Director of Social Media Dan Scavino on Facebook for wishing him a slow and painful death.
Facebook announced on Monday that it plans to lay around 500 miles of fiber cables in Uganda in order to better improve their wireless internet connectivity.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday on whether a North Carolina law banning sex offenders from social media sites like Facebook is unconstitutional.
ZeniMax has asked a judge to ban Oculus from using their code in virtual reality headsets.
Blaire White, a transgender YouTuber and critic of cultural marxism, was hit with a 30-day ban on her Facebook page for “violating Facebook policies” but given no reason as to why the ban was implemented. However, after Breitbart News reached out to Facebook for comment, White’s ban was lifted.
Facebook has reportedly contributed $120,000 to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this week, according to a report by the Daily Beast.
Facebook is investigating a post that asked users to like, comment, and share a picture of a baby who the poster falsely claimed had cancer.
Organizing for Action, the activist group that morphed from Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign, has partnered with the newly-formed Indivisible Project for “online trainings” on how to protest President Donald Trump’s agenda.
(Reuters) — Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out a vision on Thursday of his company serving as a bulwark against rising isolationism, writing in a letter to users that the company’s platform could be the “social infrastructure” for the globe.
Facebook has reinstated the popular “Polandball” comedy page, following coverage of their “permanent suspension” by Breitbart News.
“Polandball,” a popular Facebook meme page, has been permanently suspended from the platform, losing over 350,000 followers in the process.
Hamas forces on Sunday demolished a half-built mosque that belonged to Islamic Jihad activists, claiming it was constructed on Hamas-owned land without the required permits.
ROME, Feb 12 (Reuters) – Facebook must do much more to stamp out hate speech on its site, the president of Italy’s lower house of parliament said, warning that rising abuse on various social media was being fuelled by fake
Apple CEO Tim Cook called for technology companies to filter out “fake news” during an interview with Good Morning Britain on Friday.
Facebook has announced it is taking greater measures to shut down advertising on its site that attempts to target users based on race alone.
Oculus Rift “pop-ups” demonstrating the VR headset are shutting down in the hundreds after a lack of public interest has left some of them empty for days at a time.
Former State Senator Elbert Lee Guillory released a video on social media condemning the violence that erupted last week at UC Berkeley, gaining over 1 million views and almost 35,000 shares on Facebook in a day.
TBS-owned media company Super Deluxe has created a game called Punch-A-Nazi featuring a digital avatar of Breitbart Senior editor MILO and promoted the game with a livestream on Facebook showing him punched in the face repeatedly.
