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As citizens continue to protest in Iran, reports reveal that the government has begun blocking Internet access and social media in an attempt to prevent protests.

Free speech remained in a perilous state in 2017, as Big Tech became increasingly comfortable with censorship, applying inscrutable rules through enigmatic algorithms that looked an awful lot like old-fashioned political bias to outside observers.

Just 105 Russia-linked Twitter accounts posted about Brexit in the run-up to the referendum on membership of the European Union (EU), researchers at Oxford University have found.

Facebook will reduce the spread of “engagement bait” posts that “beg” for likes, comments, and shares, according to a report.

Former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya recently described his regrets in helping to build the company, stating that he believes social media is “ripping apart” modern society.

One Maryland man literally went the extra mile to return a lost dog to his owner more than 1,000 miles away.

Anyone using social media to promote fake news in Ireland could be jailed for 5 years and handed a €10,000 euro fine, according to plans put forward by one of the country’s leading political parties.

United States President Donald J. Trump retweeted a series of posts by Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen, an anti-Islam and anti-mass migration activist who has been recently charged with hate crimes in the United Kingdom.

Facebook hopes to detect suicidal users on their platform through the use of artificial intelligence after successfully testing the feature in the United States.

TEL AVIV — A social media hashtag started by Saudi activists is drawing anger from Palestinians for its message, “#Riyadh_is_more_important_than_Jerusalem.”

YouTube suspended several popular accounts in what they call a “technical error” on Thursday.

Roger Stone’s “Stone Cold Truth” account, center-left commentator Bunty King, and Sam Hyde’s comedy group Million Dollar Extreme were all permanently suspended from Twitter this week.

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) has become infamous for trying to troll President Donald Trump on Twitter. He has turned his “mean tweets” into a fundraising machine. But on Wednesday, Lieu had egg on his face when he was confronted by CNN — yes, CNN — about his behavior on social media.

Former Napster co-Founder and Facebook President Sean Parker blasted social media in a recent interview for “exploiting” human psychology.

A woman who flipped the bird at President Trump’s motorcade and gained attention on social media for it has been fired from her government contracting job.

Police in Zimbabwe have arrested an American citizen for allegedly insulting dictator Robert Mugabe on Twitter, embassy officials have confirmed.

Twitter is set to crackdown on revenge porn amid new rule changes on the platform, according to a report.

A South Carolina police officer fired for wearing underwear bearing the Confederate flag will receive $55,000 as part of a settlement with the city of North Charleston, a city attorney announced Friday.

Google and Facebook, along with other companies in Silicon Valley, spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress in the third quarter in response to fears of regulation, according to a report.

President Donald Trump praised social media as a necessary part of his presidency, pointing out that he probably wouldn’t be in office without it.

Twitter has removed the ability for conservative users to send out automated tweets using a service created by the Patriotic Journalist Network (PJNet). According to Slate, “The app helped users build tweets with prewritten text and pictures and allowed them

A photo of three Maine roofers, who stopped what they were doing to stand while the national anthem played at a nearby high school football game, is gaining a lot of traction on the Internet.

Breitbart Tech recently had the opportunity to speak to open source social network Minds’ founder Bill Ottman, who explained the differences between Minds and free-speech centric social media site Gab and discussed why Big Tech is failing.

The New York Times has banned its reporters and editors from promoting their political views on social media, according to new guidelines released by the company.

British Prime Minister Theresa May is reportedly considering regulating Facebook and Google the same way as news organizations.

The government is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds of taxpayer’s cash on the first-ever national police unit dedicated to tackling Internet ‘trolls’.

New Russian military regulations are expected to ban soldiers from taking selfies and uploading them to social media, the Moscow Times reported.

Saudi Arabia has arrested 22 people, including a Qatari national, for “inciting public feelings” on social media, authorities said Wednesday, following a crackdown on dissent.

Noted evolutionary biologist and atheist Richard Dawkins greeted the news of the mass shooting in Las Vegas by tweeting his contempt for Americans and the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret at previously thinking that claims misinformation on his platform changed the election were “crazy.”

Twitter has doubled the allowed amount of characters in posts from 140 to 280, rolling out the new update to select accounts.

Pittsburgh Steelers fans are so incensed at their team for sitting out the National Anthem on Sunday that they are posting videos online of themselves torching their Steelers gear.

Two South African men living in Murray, Utah, were arrested for allegedly raping an unconscious 14-year-old girl they had met over Snapchat, police say. Video evidence shows the girl was too drunk to resist the attack.

A group of University of New Hampshire (UNH) sorority sisters is under investigation after a video of them singing a Kanye West song containing the n-word circulated on social media.

In her speech at the UN in New York Thursday, the British Prime Minister, Theresa May, warned social media companies that if they do not clamp down on terrorist on their sites, she will introduce new legislation that would make them liable for any extremist content posted; failure to remove it would result in fines.

Twitter suspended nearly 300,000 terrorist-linked accounts in the first half of 2017, according to a report.