Several police officers in the Canadian city of Montreal say they increasingly avoid intervening in situations that involve minorities in case they are filmed and vilified as racists on social media.
Activists have turned on a SF artist who has painted public art images of the honey bear around the city, blaming him for gentrification.
Republicans have made a formal complaint against Democrat Zoe Lofgren for her report on GOP social media posts and the Capitol riot.
China’s ambassador to the U.S. on Friday cited the presence of “social media influencers” in China’s western territory of Xinjiang as proof “stability has returned” to the region since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) launched a genocide against Muslim Uyghurs in the territory in 2017.
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has taken it upon itself to flag multiple Twitter accounts sharing Donald Trump statements, according to its own reporting.
Failed U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has claimed that Russian interference in the U.S. election in 2016 is now “beyond a doubt” and that the country was likely involved in the Brexit vote, too.
This week, a federal appeals court ruled that the parents of three young teenagers who died in a car crash while using Snapchat’s “speed filter,” should have the right to sue Snap over what they claim is the platform’s role in the accident.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of NBC’s “Late Night,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) applauded Facebook not reinstating former President Donald Trump’s account because “someone like him shouldn’t be allowed to make people believe lies.” Klobuchar said, “That was the right thing to
On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) reacted to Facebook’s review board deciding whether to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s account by saying that Facebook is more powerful than the government and part of the way
Jen Psaki said Joe Biden believes that social media companies have the “responsibility” to block questionable content.
President Donald Trump’s team clarified Tuesday that the launch of a new section of his website was not a new social media network.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Ayman Mohyeldin Reports,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that while he doesn’t necessarily support banning former President Donald Trump from Facebook for life, letting him back on now is too early, as Trump is still
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intends to sign a bill banning social media companies from “deplatforming,” “shadow banning,” and “censoring” users.
German police have warned people not to post images of their vaccination passports on social media to brag to their friends, as the information could be used by fraudsters.
Jeff Bezos must explain why Amazon removed a documentary about Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas from its streaming service, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said.
Snapchat, a social media platform, is looking to “redesign” its camera technology in order to make it more “inclusive” after employees complained, “the camera is, in fact, racist,” according to an Axios report.
The Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok is facing a major legal challenge from the former children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, over the app’s collection and use of children’s data. TikTok faces potential damages in the billions if the lawsuit is successful.
The law enforcement arm of the U.S. Postal Service has been running a program called iCOP or “Internet Covert Operations Program” that tracks and collects Americans’ social media posts.
The neighborhood social media app Nextdoor is reportedly introducing new “anti-racism notifications” that will alert users if the app thinks that they’re going to post something racist. The company’s example of a racist post that will receive the notification is “all lives matter.”
Adam Schiff pressed Wray on if there were “legal constraints” on gleaning intelligence from social media for future threats to the Capitol.
Bree Newsome, a longtime activist and Black Lives Matter supporter, is condoning rioting and looting as a ‘legitimate’ response to what she claims is ‘state violence’ against blacks and other minorities.
Recent reports claim that the user data of 1.3 million Clubhouse app users have been posted to hacker forums, but Clubhouse CEO Paul Davidson alleges that the app was not hacked and this information is publicly available.
The Pentagon is looking into better screening recruits’ and service members’ social media as part of its effort to get rid of “extremism” in the United States military, according to a recent memo from Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
Paris’ left-wing Mayor has blamed a “far-right” smear campaign for a protest against garbage and dirt in the streets of the French capital.
Paris’s city government has criticised a “smear campaign” after a hashtag spread among French social media users showed pictures of the capital with garbage piled up on the streets.
A NATO report has revealed that Finland’s female-led government has received a torrent of sexist and misogynistic comments on social media.
Leaked internal documents reveal that Amazon “ambassadors,” a social media propaganda force, were trained to defend the company and Jeff Bezos along with targeting Bernie Sanders under a program codenamed “Veritas.”
Boris Johnson’s Culture Secretary has stated that social media firms will be mandated by the government to remove content that would be “illegal on the street” as a part of the upcoming Online Safety Bill.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Velshi,” Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN) said she thinks both Republicans and Democrats in Congress will discuss reforming Section 230, but there will also be “a conversation about how do we need to regulate these big
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “All In,” House Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chairwoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) discussed the subcommittee’s hearing with the CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter and said that the hearing’s purpose was to send the message to tech companies “That we’re going to regulate. We’re going to legislate.”
