Social Media

The wife of New York City Democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani is accused of liking several social media posts cheering the violent October 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel, and he has come out defending her.

A TikTok stunt that caused as 16-year-old boy to fall 50 feet and become trapped inside a shaft on the Queensboro Bridge has resulted in the arrest of two of his companions, who allegedly left him there to die.

The Central African nation of Gabon on Wednesday announced it was suspending some social media platforms for spreading “inappropriate, defamatory, hateful, and abusive” content that was allegedly threatening “social cohesion, the stability of the republic’s institutions, and national security.”

Spain plans to ban social media access for children under 16 to shield young people from the harms of online content.

Egypt’s House of Representatives said on Sunday it will craft legislation to limit children’s access to social media as Australia has done.

French lawmakers approved a bill banning social media for children under 15, allowing the ban to begin at the start of the next school year.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, China’s TikTok, and Google’s YouTube are set to face their first courtroom trial this week over allegations that their platforms have contributed to a youth mental health crisis through addictive design features.

The family of a teenage Indian boy who groped a female American tourist is accusing the victim of “overreacting” to the incident.

Australian Communications Minister Anika Wells said on Friday that some 4.7 million social media accounts have been shut down since her country’s ban on social media for children under 16 went into effect in December.

Starmer set up for showdown with the U.S. as he threatens to ban X, formerly known as Twitter, prompting sanctions warnings from Washington.

Team Trump social media accounts dominated the internet in 2025 with a total of 5.3 billion views across platforms and 13 million new followers.

Australia’s social media ban barring children under 16 from using social media has sparked a global debate among parents about the need for similar measures in their own countries.

The left-wing Irish government has vowed to push for the European Union to prohibit the use of anonymous social media accounts in what may set the ground for another battle over free speech with the Trump administration in the United States.

A recent Fox News poll reveals that about two-thirds of American voters and parents back the idea of banning teenagers under the age of 16 from social media and removing cellphones from K-12 classrooms.

The Chinese-owned TikTok has signed a deal to sell its U.S. business to three American investors so it can operate in the country free of Chinese influence.

Danish govt secured coalition agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under the age of 15, the most sweeping yet by an EU nation.

15-year-old Bryce Tate from Cross Lanes, West Virginia, took his own life in November just three hours after receiving threatening messages from a malicious scammer. The case highlights highlights the growing threat of online “sextortion,” in which scammers convince teenagers to share illicit photos then demand money to not go public.  

The Senate Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on protecting children from online predators on Tuesday, December 9.

Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s has begun. The Federal government-imposed shutdown on the globe’s most popular social media platforms and websites, including TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Kick, Twitch, and Reddit, means millions of children and teenagers lose access to their social media accounts.

The world of women’s clothing continues to trigger woke fashionistas, this time, women who are melting down over experts naming a shade of “white” the color of the year.

Taiwan announced it will block access to Communist China’s app RedNote due to a high volume of complaints about online shopping scams.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta on Thursday began deactivating Instagram and Facebook accounts of Australian users under the age of 16 ahead of next week’s social media ban.

Japanese pop singer Maki Otsuki was in the middle of a concert in Shanghai on Friday when her performance was abruptly cut short, her sound system was turned off, and the organizers ordered her to leave the stage.

Two 15 year-old Australian teenagers are challenging the country’s upcoming social media ban at the nation’s High Court, local outlets reported on Wednesday.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook, and Threads, has started notifying Australian users aged between 13 and 15 that their accounts will be shut down before the country’s upcoming social media ban for teens under the age of 16 takes effect in December.

The White House TikTok page saw rapid growth during the Democrats’ government shutdown, gaining almost a million new followers and racking up 170 million views, Breitbart News has learned.

The Team Trump social media accounts, led by X Strategies and its co-founder Alex Bruesewitz, garnered nearly a billion views in October alone across platforms and smoked the official Democrat accounts on TikTok and Instagram.

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) on Wednesday proposed some of the world’s toughest regulations for content generated by artificial intelligence (AI), including “visible labelling, metadata traceability, and transparency for all public-facing AI-generated media.”

Turning Point USA is calling for the NBA to fire an employee who posted offensive comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk on social media.

The Trump administration’s White House joined the overwhelmingly leftist social media platform known as Bluesky, trolling users with a video that contained the administration’s “greatest hits.”

Three labor unions are fighting President Donald Trump, claiming his administration violated the rights of legal visa holders by monitoring their social media accounts.

The Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee holds a hearing on the Biden administration’s pressure on big tech companies and social media platforms to censor Americans on Wednesday, October 8.

Reuters on Monday published a report on InfinitUS Marketing Solutions, a Philippine marketing agency that was allegedly hired by the Communist Chinese government to wage an “infowar” campaign against America’s security alliance with the government in Manila.

The Team Trump social media accounts, led by Alex Breusewitz and his firm X Strategies, drew nearly 1 billion views across platforms in September, continuing to outperform official Democratic Party accounts.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday approving a deal to allow TikTok to continue operating in the United States, as the Chinese app becomes majority-owned by American interests in a new joint-venture company.