Social media
Instagram sidelines TikTok-like features following complaints
Celebrity sisters Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner were some of the most vocal users to have posted messages on social media this week calling for the company to...
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75% of people believe information they share online is accurate - study
These are the findings of an Oxford University Press study that assessed how people worldwide seek out information and judge its accuracy.
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Elon Musk asks to delay start of Twitter court battle
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is seeking to delay Twitter's lawsuit against him until next year.
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Has social media become an 'echo chamber' of like-mindedness?
John Maytham talks to journalist Mathew Blackman about voices in the digital age and what that means about the discourse and debates that constantly hang out on social media.
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Social media, children and the struggles of finding justice for cyber crimes
John Perlman speaks to social media law expert, Emma Sadleir Berkowitz about the difficulties that come with reporting social media crimes in the digital age.
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Cairo to Kyiv: Social media's rocky ride through conflict zones
Young Ukrainians have used TikTok to chronicle life under Russian siege and tech enthusiasts have commandeered Telegram channels to organise donations of cryptocurrency.
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Prince Andrew quits social media as US sex assault case looms
Andrew's official Twitter account @TheDukeOfYork now opens with a message saying "This account doesn't exist".
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Palestinians raise alarm over Facebook content 'suppression'
On December 4, Palestine TV correspondent Christine Rinawi posted a video on her Facebook account in which Israeli security forces were seen shooting a Palestinian on the ground, killing him.
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Humans bigger threat than AI, says chess legend Kasparov
Russian chess legend Garry Kasparov was beaten by a supercomputer - but when it comes to artificial intelligence, he is firmly convinced that it's the humans who pose the real threat.
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TikTok, Snapchat & YouTube defend their influence on kids before US Senators
While a recent whistleblower-fueled storm of controversy has focused on Facebook's knowledge that its sites could cause harm, other social media giants also grapple with safety issues.
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Anti-Semitism 'reaching younger audience on social media': analysis
Hate speech remains more prolific and extreme on sites such as Parler and 4chan, but is being introduced to young users on mainstream platforms, they said in a joint report.
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ANALYSIS: A few clues as to what may have caused the massive Facebook outage
Downdetector.com, a major monitoring service for online outages, called it the largest global outage it had ever recorded - with 10.6 million reports from around the world.
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Zuckerberg says claim Facebook put profits over safety 'just not true'
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit back Tuesday at claims the social media giant fuels division, harms children and needs to be regulated, saying the claim the company puts profits over safety is 'just not true'.
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Facebook whistleblower to push for regulation
Ex-employee Frances Haugen is set to testify on Capitol Hill after she leaked reams of internal research to authorities and the Wall Street Journal, which detailed how Facebook knew its sites were potentially harmful to young people's mental health.
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Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations
Facebook has not communicated on the possible cause of the outage, but cyber security experts noted they had found signs that online routes that lead people to the social giant were disrupted.
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp hit by outage: tracker
Outage tracker Downdetector was showing outages in heavily populated areas like Washington and Paris, while there are numerous reports of outages in Johannesburg
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'Belly of the beast': From 13, kids treated as adults online
Josh Golin at advocacy Fairplay said the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) intended to protect the privacy of kids aged 12 or under, but was crafted well before social media and is now dangerously outdated.
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Instagram delays kids' version after criticism
Widely referred to by the unofficial name 'Instagram Kids', the initiative has attracted criticism from various groups since reports of its development emerged earlier this year.
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Bolsonaro issues decree limiting social media moderation
The new provision establishes a series of hypotheses for which there would be 'just cause' to remove content or suspend users -- such as committing crimes or inciting violence -- and imposes new rules for platforms to do so.
