The government of Sri Lanka responded to the horrific Easter Sunday bombings by restricting access to social media sites such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. Officials said they would keep the sites blocked until the counter-terrorism investigation concludes.
“Very discriminatory, hard for people to sign on,” Trump said. “Constantly taking people off list. Big complaints from many people.”
A Swedish journalist who writes for the newspaper Expressen was caught celebrating the tragic fire that engulfed the iconic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris earlier this week.
Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram announced on Tuesday it blocked the accounts of numerous Iranian officials, including commanders in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in compliance with U.S. sanctions.
Social media has seen a variety of reactions following the tragic fire at Paris’ iconic Notre-Dame cathedral Monday, but some users chose to mock and laugh at those expressing sorrow.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, known for live-streaming herself on Instagram, said on Sunday that she has given up Facebook and is scaling back on all social media.
The mother of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange took to social media following his arrest on Thursday to beg authorities to be kind to him.
The British government has published an Online Harms White Paper outlining a series of sweeping new controls on the Internet, which will see social media firms required to police users’ actions or face stiff penalties.
Candidate and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) issued a survey on social media seeking people’s guidance on the issues that matter most to them.
New Zealand’s top government-appointed privacy official has described Facebook as “morally bankrupt” and urged his country to follow Australia’s lead by enacting laws that could jail social media executives for allowing live streaming of violence such as was seen during the Christchurch mosque attack last month.
Although Twitter temporarily suspended the account of ‘Unplanned,’ the movie is a box office success and, as of Wednesday, has 80,000 more followers than Planned Parenthood.
“I call it fake news,” Trump said. “I’m very proud to hear the president use the term fake news.”
“It’s a very, very dangerous situation so I think I agree,” Trump said when asked about a proposal by Sen. Josh Hawley to investigate left-leaning tech companies.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry told Breitbart News that attorneys general across America — both Democrat and Republican — are considering “all actions,” including the use of existing antitrust law, to curb the growing power held by technology firms such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
In a Scientific American article, titled “The Internet Knows You Better Than Your Spouse Does,” author Frank Luerweg revealed that an online test, which tracks users’ digital footprints to provide a detailed personality analysis, knew many of those tested better than their spouses.
In a new Twitter app prototype currently being tested, the company completely hides the number of likes, retweets, and replies that posts receive in an attempt to improve “the health of the conversations.”
WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton repeated his call to “delete Facebook” during an appearance at a Stanford University computer science class.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he wants to shift the social media giant from “open and connected” to privacy-based, with a focus on keeping private messages secure. Not everyone is convinced, however.
Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA, described immigration as America’s “biggest issue” in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.
James O’Keefe invited insiders within Facebook, Google, and Twitter to become whistle-blowers and expose politically motivated censorship.
The Greater Hartford, Connecticut, branch of the NAACP called for Simsbury residents to “pack” a board of education meeting Tuesday night after a photo seeming to show two high school students in “blackface” appeared on social media.
French President Emmanuel Macron has floated the idea that those convicted for crimes of hate speech could be banned from social media networks permanently.
Emojis are increasingly common in court cases, and the meanings behind these emojis are reportedly being argued during trials.
The most popular app on the Chinese version of Apple’s app store is currently “Study to Make China Strong,” a program that spits out nuggets of Communist Party propaganda.
A Canadian “Instagram influencer” is facing criminal charges after a video showed her allegedly tossing a chair off of an apartment’s balcony 45 stories up from a busy street in downtown Toronto.
A bill being pushed by State Rep. Daniel Didech (D-Buffalo Grove) would require gun license applicants to submit to a background check of their social media posts.
Socialist tyrant Nicolas Maduro is cracking down hard on Venezuelan media in his bid to retain power, shutting down television stations and yanking radio hosts off the air if they dare to mention any number of banned topics, according to reports surfacing this weekend.
Actor Liam Neeson expressed regret in a shocking interview for the “horrible” thoughts he had about wanting to kill a black person after a friend was raped.
Democrat-led majorities in the House and Senate Illinois lawmakers are pushing an “assault weapons” ban and firearm registration requirements.
Jerry Media, the social media company behind the disastrous Fyre Festival, reportedly tried to broker a deal between the anti-Trump organization “Need To Impeach” and a world-record breaking egg account on Instagram.
