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.”
Special victims detectives from Chesterfield County, Virginia, arrested 20 suspects who they believed were soliciting sex from minors via social media and the internet.
A man who allegedly lived under a teenage girl’s bed in her Ohio house for three weeks was charged with sexually assaulting her and also taking nude photos of her.
Social media users in Japan were recently fooled by a 50-year-old man who posed as a young female biker online, gaining a large following by changing his appearance using photo filters.
A recent report from CNN outlines how social media platforms are now having to work harder to keep content creators and online talent exclusive to their platforms. Platforms are throwing cash at prominent content creators, for example, one pair of influencers recently received almost $30,000 for a single Snapchat video.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is urging people to oppose the effort by ‘far-right Republicans’ to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The Republican Party of Texas announced yesterday that it would keep its account on Gab, the free speech social network, saying: “The First Amendment still shines brightly in the Lone Star State.”
ORLANDO, Florida — Reigning in Big Tech is one of the most important issues Americans can relay to their representatives, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview during the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
The Marine Corps Inspector General is reviewing the handling of events that led to a Marine posting a video on TikTok that went viral about a misconduct case, the service said in a statement to Breitbart News.
Gab, the free speech internet company known for its First Amendment friendly Twitter competitor, has teased a potential new project, aimed at competing with the fledgling voice-chat app Clubhouse.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) discharged a nearly 2,000-page report documenting social media posts by Republicans who voted against certifying results of the presidential election on January 6.
Minneapolis has done away with plans to pay social media influencers to share information about the upcoming trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin in connection with George Floyd’s death.
A court in Kyiv ordered internet regulators to block over 400 websites in the country, many of them allegedly having ties to the Russian government, Ukrainian media reported Wednesday.
The Conservative Action Project, a coalition of conservative groups and leaders, released a memorandum to oppose Neera Tanden to head OMB.
Trump spoke about Twitter in an interview with Greg Kelly on Newsmax TV. He said that he grew frustrated with Twitter after the election for flagging and restricting his posts.
A 22-year-old man in the Paris no-go suburbs of Seine-Saint-Denis was sentenced to four years in prison after blackmailing underage girls for sex on social media.
Jason Miller, a senior adviser to former President Donald Trump, revealed on Saturday that the former president is considering launching his own social media platform in the not-too-distant future.
English actress Daisy Ridley said she is not returning to social media for her mental health, citing statistics that link social media to anxiety, which she says is “terrifying.”
The United Kingdom’s culture secretary has threatened to impose fines on social media companies if they fail to police so-called hate speech. The move comes in stark contrast to Poland, which has vowed to fine tech companies which embark on censorship campaigns.
“Cancel culture aims to make people afraid to express their opinions”, and Big Tech is pushing the new system, the minister told Breitbart.
Speier is pushing for federal agencies to include social media posts as part of a government worker or military recruit’s background check.
Poland is legislating to protect freedom of speech on online platforms, government minister Sebastian Kaleta told Breitbart News.
Claudia Conway is defending her mother and claiming her mom’s Twitter account was hacked after Kellyanne Conway allegedly posted a topless photo of the teenager on Monday.
Facebook has struck a deal that will see the mainstream media in Britain rake in millions, as it again prioritises the corporate press.
