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The UK Electoral Commission has suggested banning internet trolls from being able to vote in elections, according to a report.

Gab, the free speech social network, has filed a lawsuit against Google after they were suspended without warning from Google’s Play Store last month.

The Chinese government has issued new rules on instant messaging services ahead of the Chinese Communist Party congress next month, the South China Morning Post reports.

Hurricane Irma returned to Category 4 on Sunday morning. Emergency response officials are watching social media as a back-up for 911 phone systems. During Hurricane Harvey, 911 systems became overwhelmed with calls for service prompting social media calls for help. Officials learned a valuable lesson from Harvey and are being proactive with new methods of emergency situation reporting.

67 percent of Americans claim to have received their news through social media at some point, according to a report.

The Internal Revenue Service’s practice of social media data mining to determine audit targets could violate federal law on data collection, according to a report.

The Conservative party has been relentlessly mocked after launching a “grass roots” movement attempting to connect with young voters.

A university professor was fired after he said Hurricane Harvey was “instant Karma” for Texas after voting for President Trump.

YouTube has reportedly demonetized a number of videos from former presidential candidate Ron Paul following an announcement that the company would be censoring the platform to an even greater degree.

Facebook is hosting people smuggling advertisements, with gangs offering to take migrants to Europe and America, make them fake passports, and traffic them across the European Union (EU).

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is spending roughly $200,000 to study tweets about electronic cigarettes.

Free speech social network Gab announced its intentions to take on Silicon Valley censorship, Monday, launching a legal fund.

Teenagers are ditching Facebook in favor of other social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat, according to a new report.

According to a new report from the University of Maryland, the Islamic State is still the world’s deadliest militant organization, perpetrating 1,400 attacks and killing over 7,000 people in 2016. This represented a hefty 20 percent increase over 2015, even though ISIS suffered crushing defeats in Syria and Iraq.

TEL AVIV – After Lebanon-based terror group Hezbollah took to social media to threaten Israel with another war using a series of intimidating memes, a boutique Israeli web design company fought back on the same platform cynically advising the Islamist group on what to expect should it go through with its threat.

Gab, a free speech competitor to Twitter, was banned from the Google Play store Thursday after the social network startup had already raised over $1 million in investments.

Prerna P. Lal of UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Center took to Twitter in the aftermath of the Charlottesville chaos to argue that “white Americans are the original Nazis.”

Support for free speech is starting to dwindle in Silicon Valley, according to Wired, who claim that major tech companies are starting to doubt the concept.

Instagram has restored popular conservative commentator and author Lauren Southern’s account, claiming it was removed “mistakenly.”

President Donald Trump can use Twitter how he sees fit and is free to block anyone he wants, according to the Justice Department.

The NFL will now help players craft their social media accounts, presumably to prevent them from publishing content that could embarrass themselves or the team they represent.

Street artist Sabo has had his Facebook page suspended after he placed anti-Mark Zuckerberg posters around California.

TEL AVIV — Arab social media users have been divided regarding Israel’s announcement that it intends to close the offices of Qatari television station Al Jazeera while accusing the network of incitement to violence.

LONDON (AP) — Britain plans to strengthen the online “right to be forgotten” with a law making social media companies delete personal information on request.

John Podesta, the former failed campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid, urged social media companies to police freedom of speech on their platforms.

A judge has ruled that a Virginia politician violated the First Amendment when she blocked a vocal critic on Facebook.

Twitter has started beta testing a $99 per month tweet promotion service, which automatically boosts the reach and engagement of participating user’s tweets.

A new study finds that American adults are having less sex now than nearly a decade ago, and researchers suggest technology may be to blame.

TEL AVIV — Social media users across the Arab have taken to Twitter to express their anger and spawn anti-Semitic conspiracies over an agreement between Israel and Jordan that ended a crisis surrounding a recent shooting at the Israeli embassy in Jordan where an Israeli security guard shot and killed a Jordanian civilian in self-defense while the Jordanian was reportedly stabbing him.

TEL AVIV — Social media users in Jordan and around the Arab world have been actively posting about the security event at the Israeli embassy in Amman, the Jordanian capital, where an Israeli security guard shot and killed a man who tried to stab him.

A man accused of an “Islamophobic” hate crime by a Muslim on Twitter has denied the assault, insisting the story was made up, and that he and his partner were in fact racially abused.

As we contemplate the fallout from CNN’s effort to hunt down and intimidate the creator of a ten-second comedy video, let us note that people have been jailed around the world for social media posts. Here’s what happens when governments and cyber-vigilantes start deciding that certain “hateful” individuals no longer deserve the privilege of online anonymity.

Journalists are increasingly asking — and urging — CNN to suspend or delete President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, as he continues his feud with MSNBC, CNN, and other media outlets that have been hostile to his administration.

TEL AVIV – The hashtag “#saudis_for_normalization,” referring to normalization with Israel, has stirred up significant controversy on social media.

The real question is how “presidential” conduct is to be measured. Trump may flout social conventions, but never flouts the Constitution.

(Reuters) — The German parliament approved a plan on Friday to fine social media networks up to 50 million euros ($57 million) if they fail to remove hateful postings promptly, despite concerns the law could limit free expression.