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Instagram was rated the most narcissistic social media platform in a survey of 3,701 college students.

Twitter searches for the terms “racist” and “Hitler” return the profile of President Donald Trump.

Reuters reports that they have exclusively obtained four memos written by Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to American diplomatic missions, instructing them to identify “populations warranting increased scrutiny” for visa applications.

Israeli police arrested 18 Palestinian terror suspects this week in connection with their membership in a suspicious chat group on the popular messenger app WhatsApp.

Browsing Facebook while driving is the “most likely mobile phone activity to result in an accident,” while three percent of accidents were caused by people streaming movies behind the wheel, according to a recent UK report.

In a message to young people Monday, Pope Francis warned today’s youth to beware of the falsehoods behind much of social media and “reality shows,” urging them to live their own lives and to create their own histories.

A study released Thursday by LendEdu, an online marketplace for student loan refinancing, shows that millennials are most likely to check Snapchat before turning to Facebook, Instagram or LinkedIn.

A Saudi Islamic leader with more than two million Twitter followers has been banned from writing by a court that convicted him of jeopardising public order.

The prime minister of Pakistan has issued directives to relevant authorities to demand that foreign social media companies block or remove “blasphemous” content and has also called for Pakistanis who post “blasphemous” material online to be “strictly punished.”

Due to the panic over fake news, Sir. Tim Berners-Lees is willing to embrace the social media platforms undermining his creation’s openness.

Advertisers are favoring Facebook over Twitter at an “increasing rate,” as the latter continues to fall in value, according to Investopedia.

The Council of Europe has claimed the UK media, “online sources”, and “certain politicians” are inciting “hate speech” and “hate crimes”, and demands the state strengthens “mechanisms” to “tone down” and silence such voices.

The politicization of intimacy has been a Democratic campaign strategy since 2008. And after the 2016 election, it has only continued.

White House social media director Dan Scavino tells Breitbart News he is “not surprised” that President Donald J. Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening shattered records on social media in terms of engagement with the American public.

Twitter is continuing its crackdown on “abusive behavior” and “hate speech” on the platform as the company struggles to attract new users.

Google and Facebook will be working with the mainstream media to tell voters “what and who to trust”, including “memes, comment threads and news sites”, in the lead up to the French elections.

A photo of senior White House adviser Kellyanne Conway sitting on a couch in the Oval Office, while taking photos of President Trump as he met with leaders of historically black universities and colleges, spurred outrage and debate on social media.

Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are politicizing the United States military like never before, according to a report by Politico.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday on whether a North Carolina law banning sex offenders from social media sites like Facebook is unconstitutional.

Heavy social media use is unhealthy for Americans, according to a new report from Bloomberg, which indicates stress levels of those who use social networks are higher than those who don’t.

Egyptian President Abdel Fatah Sisi met with Jewish-American leaders in Cairo on Sunday to discuss the Middle East and the political and economic challenges his country faces.

After First Lady Melania Trump opened President Donald Trump’s campaign rally Saturday in Florida with “The Lord’s Prayer,” she was savagely attacked by leftists on social media, disparaging her for her religious faith, her accent, and other things.

Islamists worldwide have taken to social media to mourn the passing of the “Blind Sheikh” Omar Abdelrahman in US prison.

A Florida woman recorded herself performing oral sex in a courthouse right before she appeared in front of a judge for drug-related charges.

Beretta posted a Facebook video of a young girl getting a 686 Silver Pigeon shotgun for a present, and gun haters came unglued.

Two days after former San Francisco Giants player Aubrey Huff tweeted his shock at protesters blocking airport operations over President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order, and one day after those posts disappeared from social media, Huff apologized for the way he ranted — but not for his political views.

A recent executive order by the White House temporarily banning entry to the U.S. to people from seven Muslim-majority countries has drawn attention to the discriminatory practices of these nations against holders of Israeli Passports, with the matter being discussed at the UK parliament, in regards to dual British-Israeli citizens.

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s pledge to hire 10,000 refugees in the wake of President Trump’s executive order on immigration has sparked calls to boycott the coffee chain on social media.

“LEGO Life” is a social network for aspiring architects 13-years old and younger, sporting built-in safety measures and full-time moderation.

The Poynter Institute, the group helping Facebook determine whether certain news stories are “disputed,” has determined it is worth considering the possibility that “fake news” stories did not significantly impact the 2016 presidential election after all.

The families of victims of terror attacks in Paris, Brussels and Israel are blaming social media companies including Facebook and Twitter for facilitating communications among terrorists.

A Maryland school official was fired from her job after she corrected a student’s spelling over Twitter.

Facebook has launched new features in Germany to counter so-called “fake news” after authorities claimed such stories could help populists in this year’s elections and threatened to sue the social media firm.

A prominent British parliamentary committee is set to launch an inquiry into so-called “fake news”, claiming the phenomenon is undermining democracy.

Snapchat’s social media parent, Snap, Inc., seemed headed for a $5 billion IPO until a former employee alleged in a conveniently timed lawsuit that the company misrepresented its financial position and pressured him for proprietary secrets about his former employer, Facebook.

A Eurosceptic member of the Finnish parliament has been criminalised and fined for posting an anti-Islam Facebook post on his personal page.