Cyber bullying
Twitter to experiment with limiting replies in effort to combat online abuse
Social media firms are under pressure to address harassment on their sites, which often occurs in unsolicited replies targeting women and minorities.
People deemed "susceptible to harassment or cyberbullying based on their physical or mental condition" had the reach of their posts restricted, German site NetzPolitik.org reported, citing leaked documents from Tiktok.
Gomez knows the struggles of social media as she says she used to fall into the same traps before taking a step back.
While some experts suggest anxious adults are driving fear through their uncritical social media sharing, police and school alerts have emphasised the importance of parents being aware of the impact that technology has on children.
Aurecon's Sonja de Klerk looks at whether modern technology is making us lonelier than ever.
The 'Daredevil' actress refuses to let her daughter Lola,15, have a mobile phone as she thinks she should be focusing on developing herself rather than what she presents online.
A group of people from all over the world have teamed up to protect young online users from paedophiles or any other potential victimisation.
Radio 702 presenter Azania Mosaka speaks to an associate at the Digital Law Company, Rorke Wilson, about apps that you and your children should look out for and why you should be concerned.
A man was thrown from a building and his friend robbed when they went to meet a person who was apparently selling a camera.
Better regulating social media companies has long been an aim of a government that has struggled to carry out its agenda with Britain’s departure from the European Union taking up much of ministers’ time.
One of 31 children whose names are mentioned in a so-called sex list has allegedly tried to take her life.
The children whose names appear on the list are all believed to be minors who attend various schools in the Atlantis area.
The company's new approach would be based on identifying metrics to gauge the 'health of public conversations' and ways to measure it.
Twitter bots disseminated propaganda before the 2016 US elections and have continued to inflame US politics under cover of anonymity, academic researchers and US authorities say.
Clinical Psychologist Stephanie Bové says it is important for schools to not be reactive to bullying, but rather find ways to prevent it.
The rapidly spreading cyber extortion campaign underscored growing concerns that businesses have failed to secure their networks from aggressive hackers.
Aydin Coban convinced young girls and gay men to take off their clothes in front of web cams and then used the images to blackmail them.
Kesha appears in a new Public Service Announcement for Hack Harassment, to raise awareness on cyberbullying.
The company said it would expand the 'mute' option to allow users to block tweets based on keywords.