David Simon, the television writer and producer who created The Wire and The Deuce, was locked out of his Twitter account after he graphically told a Trump supporter to die — prompting him to tell Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to die too.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Friday that social media companies need regulation regarding their privacy practices as well as censorship of conservative and alternative voices on the Internet.
Facebook is advertising to hire “news credibility specialists,” as the company continues to take on the role of a publisher, making editorial decisions about what news content is “trusted” and what is not.
Reports published late this week suggest that a Facebook software bug may have caused user’s private posts to be shared publicly.
Thursday on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper argued for more regulation of social media. The embattled critic of President Donald Trump suggested an agency akin to the Federal Communications Commission could be suitable for
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei attacked Israel on Monday, labelling it a “malignant cancerous tumour” in a Tweet.
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that Israelis can file claims against social-media platform Facebook in Israeli courts, even though the user license agreement states that members can only sue in California courts.
Papua New Guinea is set to ban Facebook for a month in an effort to study the social network’s effects on citizens and investigate fake accounts.
New York Times contributor Nitsuh Abebe explained in a recent column how social media is hurting political discourse in America.
Facebook has allowed the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) to establish a growing virtual presence in North America used to radicalize, recruit, support, as well as potentially plan and direct terrorist attacks, an analysis by the Counter Extremism Project (CEP) found.
“It really is critical to our democracy that people get accurate information” said Clinton.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy claimed conservative Christians are being routinely silenced on social media during a speech this month to the Council of National Policy, concluding “no conservative group is safe.”
Facebook and Google have been presented with a plan to ensure real transparency. Will they take it?
The story of South Korean blogger Kim Dong-won, better known by his online alias “Druking,” is developing into a major scandal for President Moon Jae-in’s party even as President Donald Trump’s historic summit with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un approaches.
While attending the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Vienna, Austria, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expressed his concerns over privacy in the digital age.
Twitter has acknowledged that it is working to artificially limit the reach of “troll-like” accounts on the platform — “shadowbanning” users in all but name, a practice that the company has repeatedly denied.
Facebook, the social network at the center of privacy concerns, is offering privacy tips to children through their new youth portal.
People in Western Europe are more divided by their populist leanings than by traditional left/right political categories in their trust of mainstream news media, a Pew study revealed Monday.
News Corp. CEO Robert Thomson has called on social media companies to create an algorithm review board to monitor abuse of social media algorithms.
Tech giants Facebook and Google have banned advertisements related to Ireland’s upcoming abortion referendum this month.
A number of conservatives have been banned from the platform for posting facts and factual claims.
First Lady Melania Trump has unveiled her “Be Best” initiatives, which include an initiative to get children using social media so they can “learn positive online behaviors early on.”
Prominent conservatives have published an open letter calling for social media companies to treat conservative users and employees in a fairer manner.
Health insurance company Cigna conducted a nationwide survey and nearly half reported constant feelings of loneliness or isolation.
Even Mark Zuckerberg’s posts were flagged with the questionnaire, which asked users to determine what posts were “hate speech.”
There have been more than 6,000 grooming crimes recorded in the UK in less than five years, with numbers dramatically rising in the past 12 months, Home Office statistics reveal.
Facebook invited a number of conservative think tanks and free market groups to a secretive meeting in Washington, D.C., where they were forced to sign strict legal agreements to prevent discussion of the event.
Congressional Democrats launched an all-out war against conservative concerns about censorship on social media today, calling the concerns a “conspiracy theory”, even as they defended tech giants’ right to censor content on the basis of political viewpoint.
Diamond and Silk testified before Congress over social media censorship against conservatives, Thursday, with Diamond declaring during their testimony that “censorship is no hoax.”
What Facebook say they ban is far less revealing than what they actually ban.
CBS News on Tuesday reported on China’s plan to assign citizens a “social credit score,” a system that has already restricted the travel privileges of millions of people who were rated poor citizens due to undesirable speech and behavior. The system begins expanding nationwide next week after a limited trial run.
There is currently no way to track Google’s manipulation of search results and search suggestions.
Facebook has suspended conservative comedian Terrence K. Williams for posting screenshots of hate mail he received from liberals.
The profiles of 48 million social network users were leaked from data firm Localblox, who left the data including Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter user information on a public server without a password.
Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo, essentially China’s version of Twitter, has reportedly abandoned a “clean-up campaign” that would remove “pornographic, violent, or gay subject matter” after users complained about the crackdown on gay material.
Rapper T.I. has joined in calls for a boycott of Starbucks after two black men were arrested at one of the coffer giant’s Philadelphia locations.
A surveillance company founded by a former Israeli intelligence officer has been using Facebook, YouTube and other social networks to build a massive facial recognition database — and is just one of many companies doing so.
Outraged social media users are urging people to #BoycottStarbucks over an incident where a Philadelphia store called the police on two black men.
In light of Facebook hearings on Capitol Hill, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders acknowledged the constitutional rights of all Americans to “speak freely” on platforms like the social media site.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has called for greater regulation of Silicon Valley companies and particularly artificial intelligence, to stop the spread of “fake news.”
