Social media
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...
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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to protect the privacy of kids aged 12 or under, but was crafted well before social media and is now dangerously outdated.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.
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Afghan influencers go dark on social media as Taliban return
The return of the hardline Islamist group has sent a shockwave through Afghanistan's social media. Prominent influencers have gone dark or fled, while residents and activists are scrambling to scrub their digital lives.
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Social media giants grapple with Taliban dilemma
As their arrival in Kabul sparked worldwide panic, Taliban officials took to Twitter to project a message of calm beyond Afghanistan's borders.
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Biden says social media misinformation on COVID 'killing people'
The White House is turning up the pressure on social media companies to weed out what officials say is widely spread misinformation on coronavirus vaccinations.
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Cuba restores internet access after protests, but not social media
Social media is the only way Cubans can access independent media, while messaging apps are their main means of communicating amongst themselves.
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THANDI SMITH: Bordering incitement - the cases of Duduzile Zuma & Julius Malema
Leaders and people of influence need to be overt about denouncing violence and desist from saying inflammatory things, even if it is not illegal, writes Thandi Smith.
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Being Nigerian 101: Social media group debates identity
Hosted on the platform Clubhouse, the group's 45,000 members can join chatrooms on languages and culture, politics and citizenship, pop culture, technology and well-being.
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TikTok removes 7 million underage users
The Chinese-owned app, which is wildly popular with young smartphone users, also said it took down nearly 62 million videos in the first quarter for violating community standards - including for "hateful" content, nudity, harassment or safety for minors.
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WhatsApp launches court action against India's social media clampdown
The regulations, which took effect the same day, come at a time of growing tensions between social media giants and the Indian government, which has demanded tech companies remove content critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Fake news on the rise ahead of Mexico elections
One widely shared post said that the ruling Morena party wanted voters to use new identity cards linked to poll technology firm Smartmatic, which it accused of being 'a Venezuelan electoral fraud company.'
