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Multibillionaire Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is bankrolling hundreds of Californians to post positive endorsements of him on social media, according to a recent Wall Street Journal report.

Democratic presidential hopeful Michael Bloomberg has reportedly contracted internet meme-makers and marketers with more than 60 million followers in total to post sponsored content on Instagram promoting his campaign. According to one of the marketers involved, the memes’ engagement “came from people being confused whether or not it was real.”

The UK Government will police “harmful” content online including “extreme pornography”, “trolling” and the spreading of “disinformation”.

A report reveals that Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, Google, TikTok and other “mainstream entities” are peddling porn and prostitution.

Actor James Woods returned from Twitter exile late Thursday, tweeting for the first time since his highly public feud with the social media giant last year.

Several Chinese state media outlets reported the death of Dr. Li Wenliang on Thursday, only to delete their reports a few hours later and publish new bulletins indicating he remains in critical condition at Wuhan Central Hospital.

On Thursday, the Global Times announced the death of doctor Li Wenliang from the virus, a development widely taken as evidence the coronavirus is more dangerous than the Chinese government is willing to admit

Individuals on both sides of the political aisle are crying foul over the Iowa State Democratic Party attributing the delay in results to “quality control,” sparking further suspicion of what some Democrats fear is a rigged election.

Perhaps the least surprising news of 2020, social media stars are leveraging China’s coronavirus for relevancy.

Engagement with impeachment stories on social media is plummeting, and Axios’ Neal Rothschild believes it is all part of the Republicans’ plan.

For the sake of simplicity, I’m lumping America’s fascination with dystopia, the apocalypse, and the zombie apocalypse all together under the single heading of Dystopia Porn.

In addition to some Iranian journalists quitting their jobs in anger because the regime lied about shooting down Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752, Iranian celebrities are speaking out against their tyrannical rulers, while the common people persist in acts of defiance such as refusing to tread on American flags and holding banned funeral services for airplane victims.

A video showing Prince Harry begging the head of Disney for voiceover work for his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, has been deleted from Twitter for allegedly violating the platform’s “copyright policy”.

Chinese-owned video social media app TikTok is reportedly banning “misleading information” from its platform. According to the app hugely popular with young people, “We remove misinformation that could cause harm to an individual’s health or wider public safety. We also remove content distributed by disinformation campaigns.”

TikTok’s latest transparency report claims that the Chinese-owned video app received no takedown or user information requests from the communist government of China.

Chinese-owned video app TikTok is reportedly searching for a new headquarters outside of China as the company attempts to shake its Chinese image.

International groups that monitor Internet blockades said on Wednesday that mobile Internet access is going down across several provinces in Iran, most likely paving the way for another bloody crackdown on protesters.

A single dad in Belton, Texas, got a huge surprise recently after he asked people to send Christmas cards to his son, who has special needs.

Angela Merkel’s government is preparing a new bill that will force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to hand over data, including passwords, of those accused of engaging in “hate speech” online.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, recently made infamous over resurfaced blackface photos, has instructed his ministers to create new legislation aimed at tackling “hate speech” on social media.

The Pensacola Navy base shooting suspect reportedly wrote “the countdown has started” on his social media accounts September 11, 2019.  

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.