The UK’s public prosecutor has demanded social media users who post “photoshopped” images and memes should face jail, as well as those who incite “virtual mobs” because they are “opposed to that person’s opinions”.
With Snapchat leaking that the company is planning a quick initial public offering (IPO) at a $25 billion valuation, the real motivation for speeding up the deal may be the ability of Instagram Stories to grow to from scratch to 60 percent of Snapchat’s user base in just 10 weeks.
After Oculus founder Palmer Luckey was outed for “shit-posting” about Hillary Clinton, he was a “no show” at the Oculus Connect 3 Conference where Facebook doubled down on their corporate commitment by offering another $250 million in developer support cash.
61% of millennials receive their political news from Facebook, according to a 2015 report by Pew Research, which Scott Bixby of The Guardian argues puts young people in the biggest political echo chamber ever during a presidential election.
An armed man seriously injured a security guard while attempting to break into a synagogue in Moscow on Saturday night.
Facebook has restored the official page of Pakistan’s extremists-linked Islamist party, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), nearly a day after it was removed allegedly for featuring a picture of a rebel commander in Kashmir killed by the Indian military.
Facebook’s chief of artificial intelligence, Yan LeCun, previously worked on advanced surveillance systems, according to a report by The Sun.
Disney has significant advantages over other bidders to acquire Twitter. First, Twitter’s CEO Jack Dorsey serves on Disney’s Board of Directors. But the biggest advantage is that Disney owns a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the tech spinout from Major League Baseball that owns the app powering Twitter’s streaming of NFL games on the web.
Facebook revealed that within the last month it deleted 100,000 posts by German users for containing “hate”, but Justice Minister Heiko Maas has blasted the figure as too low.
Lawyers for Facebook Inc (FB.O) on Tuesday sought to assure a U.S. judge overseeing lawsuits by victims of militant attacks in the Middle East that it took a “zero tolerance” approach to any communications that may promote terrorist threats or activity.
A German privacy watchdog has ordered Facebook to stop collecting data on WhatsApp users, a response to the introduction of a controversial data sharing scheme by the company in August.
Snapchat has released its new “Spectacles” sunglasses as a disruptive creator of much more personal video sharing experiences.
A New York teacher is facing backlash after she called her students “racist” in a Facebook post.
TEL AVIV – Palestinian activists called on Facebook users on Sunday evening to stage a two-hour boycott of the social media platform and instead use Twitter under the hashtag #FBCensorsPalestine to protest the disabling of a number of Palestinian Facebook accounts engaged in incitement.
Facebook has launched a nationwide campaign to encourage users to vote in the upcoming presidential election.
JAFFA, Israel – Some Arab social media users were rejoicing over clashes between police and protesters that swept Charlotte, North Carolina, following the killing of a local black man by police.
The sister of Ahmad Rahami, the U.S. naturalized citizen of Afghan descent believed to be behind last weekend’s bombings in New York and New Jersey, posted radical Islamic material online, including a quote from an al Qaeda (AQ) co-founder known as Osama bin Laden’s predecessor and the “father of global Jihad” as well as Muslim Brotherhood (MB) propaganda.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his pediatrician wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, announced this week that their Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will fund a $3 billion effort to cure all diseases.
The editor of Norway’s largest newspaper, Aftenposten, has attacked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a new opinion piece for The Guardian, criticizing the social network for their censorship and Zuckerberg’s failure to address the situation himself.
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana – An organization of social justice-oriented students at Louisiana State University (LSU) have planned a “response” effort to Breitbart Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ upcoming lecture, claiming he promotes hate and intolerance.
A new restaurant in Australia has drawn criticism because it sought to honour the achievements of the British Empire through the combination of its interior design and menu.
Palo Alto mayor Patrick Burt says: “Palo Alto’s greatest problem right now is the Bay Area’s massive job growth.” And he wants to “meter” businesses to control “reckless job growth” in the Silicon Valley suburb.
Although Facebook claims it is not biased politically, the company labels every user as liberal, moderate or conservative, even if they do not post or comment about politics, the New York Times reports.
After an article published by Breitbart News on Wednesday about the suspension of the UWF College Republicans chapter, the University of West Florida has disabled the ratings on their Facebook page.
Talk-radio icon Dr. Michael Savage, author of the new book “Scorched Earth: Restoring the Country After Obama,” was a guest on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM with Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.
In a wide-ranging interview with Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow on Thursday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM, nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Savage described tech giants like Facebook and Google “mini-fascist states that crush opposition viewpoints.”
Facebook will be responsible for gathering questions for one of the first presidential debates between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the Commission on Presidential Debates has revealed.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg responded to the controversy surrounding her platform’s ban on an iconic Vietnam War image last week, stating, “We don’t always get it right.”
An 18-year-old girl from Austria has started legal proceedings against her own parents over their posting of embarrassing photos of her childhood on Facebook which she claims have made her life miserable.
Facebook’s new automated trending news section accidentally featured a 9/11 conspiracy story claiming to prove that “bombs were planted” in the World Trade Center before being pulled from the social network.
Police have hit back at a man who taunted them over Facebook by announcing his arrest on their Facebook page.
Gab founder and CEO Andrew Torba was temporarily banned from Facebook last night after sharing a link to Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos’ Dangerous Faggot tour trailer just hours before his event at Texas Tech university.
(Reuters) — Major technology companies including Facebook, Google and Twitter are urging Congress to support a plan for the U.S. government to cede control of the internet’s technical management to the global community, they said in a joint letter dated on Tuesday.
Facebook, Google and YouTube are complying with up to 95 percent of Israeli requests to delete content that the government says incites Palestinian violence, Israel’s Justice Minister said on Monday.
Black Lives Matter leader Shaun King was temporarily banned from Facebook after he posted an alleged screenshot of hate mail he had received.
Norwegian author Tom Egeland’s Facebook account was suspended after he posted to his timeline the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo The Terror of War.
The Israeli government and Facebook have agreed to work together to determine how to tackle incitement on the social media network, a senior Israeli Cabinet minister said Monday.
Senior Facebook officials are in Israel to meet with government representatives and civil servants in an effort to jointly stem the online incitement that the Israeli government says leads to terror activities.
What’s the difference between a photograph of a naked child and kiddie pornography? If you don’t know the answer a bright future awaits you at Facebook.
Facebook has come under heavy criticism after an iconic Vietnam War photo of a naked girl during a napalm attack has been banned from the platform.