Social Media

A Chinese live-streamer died after drinking excessive amounts of Baijiu, a strong alcoholic beverage, sometimes called “Chinese Moonshine.”

United States Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned of the dangers of excessive social media use amongst teenagers in a public health advisory.

The son of famed Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler, has come under fire for “liking” racist social media posts, according to a report.

The American Psychological Association (APA) is warning, for the first time, about social media’s potential harm to kids.

A court in the Espirito Santo state of Brazil on Wednesday ordered a temporary suspension of the secure messaging platform Telegram because it refused to provide information about neo-Nazi groups that allegedly used Telegram posts to incite violence in schools.

Former First Lady and twice failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was roasted on Twitter after trying to troll Republicans over their brawl with Disney by posting an old photo of herself, Bill Clinton, and Chelsea Clinton posing with Donald Duck, proclaiming,

Parler, the free speech-friendly social network founded in 2018 at the height of Big Tech censorship, has been shut down pending a strategic reassessment from its new owners.

Actress Jennifer Garner, who has three children with her ex-husband Ben Affleck — 17-year-old Violet, 13-year-old Seraphina, and 11-year-old Samuel — says her kids are not on social media and that her oldest child is “grateful” not to be on it.

Chinese Communist Party censors allowed users on its state-controlled site Weibo to comment extensively on the arrest of American former President Donald Trump on Tuesday, resulting in many cheering on the decline of the United States and predicting a civil war.

Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan have been released from prison, but will remain under house arrest in Romania as investigations continue.

Two leftist Facebook pages–The Other 98% and Occupy Democrats–are celebrating the recent indictment of former President Donald Trump.

Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) has signed two pieces of legislation that require social media companies to get parental consent for minors to use their platforms.

The Canadian federal government is still using the Chinese app Tik Tok for advertising despite banning it on all government devices. 

New York Democrat Rep. Jamaal Bowman has positioned himself as a TikTok ally as both parties on Capitol Hill debate whether or not to ban the Chinese-controlled platform entirely for national security purposes.

A Christian teacher has been fired from his post after claiming that “homosexuality is invading the church” on social media.

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) asked Janet Yellen about censorship of online communications to prevent a “social media internet-based bank run.”

Brazil’s Minister of Justice and Public Security Flavio Dino defended on Monday the need to regulate social media in Brazil to prevent “hate speech” on the internet.

Officials located a missing Dallas 13-year-old over 1,000 miles from her home on Friday.

Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) asked about digital censorship of social media during a conference call regarding the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank.

A Spanish juvenile prosecutor has linked the consumption of pornography to a rise in sex attack cases among Spanish youth, claiming perpetrators use porn as a tutorial.

During a town hall on CNN on Tuesday, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram stated that drug cartel “traffickers and the people selling it for them are all over social media” and that social media companies are failing to do enough to

Grammy award-winning pop star Billie Eilish says she has deleted all of her social media apps from her phone, and expressed that she has a complicated relationship with the internet as she grew up as “one of those people on the internet.”

“I got shadowbanned,” Jocko Willink, retired Navy SEAL and author, said in a clip from his Jocko Underground podcast published on Monday. He said his months-long shadowbanning — which he notes had since been reversed — on an unspecified “social media” platform was imposed after making the Biden administration “look like idiots” in relation to the White House’s management of withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

This week a Catholic prayer app beat out TikTok and other major social media apps in an unlikely Lenten surge.

European Commission staff have been banned from using the Chinese platform TikTok on both government-owned as well as many personal devices over spying concerns.

A youth pastor and a foster parent in Florida are accused of human trafficking and soliciting minors for sexual activity on social media, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) announced on Friday.

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Michael Shellenberger, one of the reporters of the Twitter files, stated that it’s dangerous for members of Congress to demand censorship on social media platforms, especially since Congress has the

Sweden’s Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson slammed a Muslim-led disinformation campaign that has claimed Swedish social services are kidnapping children from Muslim parents.

UK coronavirus lockdown critics were placed under government surveillance using the opaque resources of the country’s military, a report alleges.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Deadline: White House,” outgoing White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain said it’s “Facebook’s decision” to reinstate former President Donald Trump’s access to Facebook and Instagram and stated that it’s important that “any of these

Brazil’s Minister of Justice and Public Security Flavio Dino presented a bill proposal on Thursday that aims to regulate social media and punish “terrorist” and “anti-democratic” content published online.

The UK government is considering forcing tech companies to remove videos that show illegal boat migrant crossings in a “positive light”.

Alexandra Pierce, founder and designer of HRH Collection, says “cancel culture ruins everything” including free speech, honesty among peers, and comedy. 

A recent study by psychologists shows that the regular use of social media is linked to changes in the brains of teenagers. This is especially troubling in light of the fact that the most popular social media platform for American teenagers is China’s TikTok, which pushes harmful messaging on teens as soon as they sign up for an account.

China’s state-run Global Times on Monday took great exception to the new chairman of the House Select Committee on China, Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), describing the controversial Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok as “digital fentanyl.”

A study about the impacts of social media found that three out of four children as young as 12 “dislike their bodies and are embarrassed by the way they look,” the Guardian reported.