Social Media

TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is facing accusations that it violated child privacy laws and improperly collected data on young users, according to a new lawsuit.

Individuals on social media dunked on Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) following her departure from the 2020 presidential race on Tuesday.

Oscar-winning actress Renée Zellweger says she has not joined Instagram, or any other social media platforms for that matter, because she feels “uncomfortable” with sharing her private life in such an immediate, public way. During a roundtable interview alongside Oscar-winning actress

A video clip produced by an Afghan American teenager attacking China over their policy of putting Uyghur Muslims in concentration went viral on the Chinese-owned social network TikTok this week, as international condemnation of the policy continues to grow. 

Left-wing rocker Neil Young quit Facebook, deleting his artist page and citing the “false information regularly supplied to the public” on the platform.

The State Department on Monday urged social media companies to suspend the social media accounts of Iran’s leaders after they cut access to the Internet amid widespread protests in the country.

Left-wing Welsh separatists Plaid Cymru have been embarrassed after the niqab-clad Muslim who starred in their election broadcast was linked to antisemitic posts on social media.

Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who is testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, threw a wrench in Chairman Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) previous claims that President Trump engaged in “witness intimidation” after dismissing Minister Avakov’s attacks on then-candidate Trump by noting, “Sometimes that happens on social media.”

Amazon is touting a new children’s book narrating the birth of Jesus Christ as its “#1 New Release in Children’s Christian Holiday Fiction.”

Washington-based nonprofit Freedom House on Tuesday released the latest in a string of increasingly glum annual reports about Internet freedom.

The celebrated Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg has threatened to quit Facebook if the social media platform refuses to silence her critics.

Twitter’s stock plunged Thursday after the social media giant reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that missed expectations, with executives blaming advertising platform glitches that hurt its ability to target users.

Mitt Romney is so insecure and hungry for approval, but so cowardly and craven in not wanting to correct or criticize his abusers in the media directly,

Sunday on CNN’s “Reliable Sources,” host Brian Stelter voiced his concern with Facebook’s commitment to allowing free speech on its platform. Stelter said he is “worried” that Facebook supporting free speech on its platform could result in ads reaching “vulnerable

Breitbart News was the #1 in “share of voice” on social media during last night’s Democrat debate.

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that EU governments can order Facebook to take down content worldwide after an Austrian politician was insulted online.

Pray.com, the largest prayer app in the world, says that the popular Chinese-owned social network TikTok blacklisted it from running ads on the platform. The CEO of Pray.com says the company’s attitude “seemed malicious and unfair.”

Facebook will soon be testing a previously rumored feature that would hide “likes” on photos and posts across its platform.

Internal documents from popular social media platform TikTok appear to show the company instructing moderators to censor political content on the platform that could anger the Chinese government.

We live in a world where your juvenile criminal record is expunged, but not your juvenile tweets, which means a whole lot of good people who made some dumb mistakes as minors (as we all have) are going to see their reputations burnt to the ground in this witch-hunt culture of ours.

President Donald Trump used part of his speech before the United Nations Tuesday to warn of the growing accumulation of power by big tech companies.

President Donald Trump emphasized Tuesday the importance of national sovereignty, warning the leaders of the United Nations to reject globalism.

A Facebook employee reportedly died by suicide after leaping off the company’s headquarters building in Menlo Park, California, on Thursday.

“The other thing that is helpful is not watching TV or reading social media,” he added pointedly, according to Axios.

Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang promised he would give 10 American families a “freedom dividend” of $1,000 a month for a year — or $120,000 — during his opening statement at the Democratic debate on Thursday in Houston, Texas.

A 19-year-old Missouri man raped six girls as young as 13 years old and lured them to his home using social media, police said.

A man riding a roller coaster in Spain caught a stranger’s cellphone mid-ride, and he is going viral after a camera from the ride caught that moment on video.

Twitter users mocked Tesla CEO Elon Musk this week after he attempted to criticize Porsche’s new electric sports car. After Musk criticized Porsche’s usage of the term “turbo” with electric vehicles, users were quick to point out Musk’s own loose usage of language both in tweets and Tesla’s business, such as the infamous “funding secured” tweet.

A report published by National Public Radio (NPR) on Thursday cited a considerable amount of evidence to demonstrate that Communist China is intercepting both domestic and foreign communications using the WeChat application, which is owned by China’s giant Tencent corporation. This would mean American users of WeChat are subject to surveillance by Chinese security services.

His Dark Materials author Philip Pullman appeared to suggest that Prime Minister Boris Johnson should be publicly lynched shortly after tweeting that the country must “get rid of him” as “finally as possible”.