Over 2 billion people use Facebook each month, and with good reason. Facebook connects far more people than would be able to interact regularly in person or otherwise offline. Many Facebook users view this medium as a way to solicit and receive support from large numbers of people. Both in person and online, self-disclosure can be an important way of forging intimacy in relationships.

Officers in law enforcement agencies across the country have joined private hate groups on Facebook, participating in the spread of extremism.

Firm has uncovered emails that appear to show chief executive’s connection to potentially problematic practices, WSJ reports

WhatsApp says it is deleting 2m accounts per month as part of an effort to blunt the use of the world’s most popular messaging app to spread fake news and misinformation. The Facebook-owned service published the data as part of a white paper on “stopping abuse” that was launched on Wednesday in India, the biggest market for the company with more than 200m users.

For years, tech companies have relied on a rhetorical sleight of hand. It’s not working anymore.

The social network tells the group it was kicked off for spreading "harmful misinformation."

By 2100 there could be 4.9bn dead users on Facebook. So who controls our digital legacy after we have gone? As Black Mirror returns, we delve into the issue

Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.

Anytime young people get together, the pics start flowing.

Perception vs. reality; what it means to businesses; and how to bridge the gap This piece might spark a debate, because different experts have different views on social media.

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Caleb Cain was a college dropout looking for direction. He turned to YouTube, where he was pulled into a world filled with conspiracy theories, misogyny and racism.

The company sides with edgy commentator Steven Crowder

About 37% of Americans attend the church at least once per week, a recent study has shown. However, would this number decrease if they knew their pastors wore sneakers that are worth thousands of dollars? A 29-year-old man name Tyler has set out to find an answer to this question. Tyler has created an Instagram account called PreachersNSneakers, calling out celebrity church leaders for their expensive footwear, and it has reached over 66K followers in just a few weeks.

It has nothing to do with a paywall

'Arrogance is not a substitute for good corporate governance,' said Michael Connor, who helped coordinate the symbolic action by activist investors.

The Trump administration implemented a new policy today that will require most visa applicants to provide information about their social media accounts. The Hill first reported the news. A State Department spokesperson confirmed to The Verge that the new forms requiring accounts were put into use today.

The U.S. military plans to analyze 350 billion social-media posts from around the world to help it track how popular movements evolve.

On the latest Recode Decode with Kara Swisher, Weinberg explains why it’s time for Congress to step in and make

Are memes fair use? Or can you be sued for sharing and profiting off them?

A YouTube star has been banned from the platform for five years after he made a video tricking a homeless person into eating Oreo cookies filled with toothpaste and then joking they would clean him. 21-year-old Chinese YouTuber Kanghua Ren, creator of the popular channel ReSet, was given the unusual sentence by a judge for the video posted in January 2017.

A massive database containing contact information of millions of Instagram influencers, celebrities and brand accounts has been found online. The database, hosted by Amazon Web Services, was left exposed and without a password allowing anyone to look inside.

A long line of legal experts say the American Law Institute proposal would make an already huge problem dramatically worse.

Facebook's former security chief says Mark Zuckerberg has amassed too much power and should resign as chief executive officer of the social networking giant. "There's a legit argument that he has too much power," Alex Stamos said at the Collision Conference in Toronto on Tuesday. "He needs to give up some of that power. If I was him, I would go hire a new CEO for the company."

My years-long journey to the top of Reddit's karma leaderboards has only made me feel more alone.

The social network wants to dismiss a lawsuit stemming from the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

A consumer advocacy group has found that not all Facebook users have been given the ability to opt out of the company's facial recognition.

A video spreading on social media of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) has reportedly been altered to make the politician appear drunk. It's one of a few.

A 35-year-old physical therapist and yoga instructor who went missing in the Makawao Forest Reserve on Maui, Hawaii, two weeks ago has been found alive, according to her family and a Facebook page devoted to the search. Amanda Eller was found Friday in a creek bed between two waterfalls by three volunteers searching the area by helicopter. The Maui News reported that Eller was injured, but did not elaborate. Photos on the Facebook page showed her with bruised and swollen feet and a smudged, but smiling, face.

We project the future accumulation of profiles belonging to deceased Facebook users. Our analysis suggests that a minimum of 1.4 billion users will pass away before 2100 if Facebook ceases to attract new users as of 2018. If the network continues expanding at current rates, however, this number will exceed 4.9 billion.

Natalie Crowe was a bored teenager during the summer of 2012 when she stumbled across her mother's old address book in a storage bin and decided to search for a specific name. The first person to pop into her head was Austin Tatman, who was her best friend when they were 5 years old. The two had lost touch after she moved from Florida to Connecticut with her mother and siblings.

Twitter suspended more than 160,000 accounts in the second half of 2018 in its efforts to prevent terrorism content from spreading on its platform, the company announced Thursday. 

Instagram will begin hiding search results for hashtags that consistently return false information about vaccines, the company said today. Starting today, the company will effectively begin blocking access to hashtags that return misinformation designed to dissuade people from getting vaccinated. Instagram made the announcement at an event for press in San Francisco on Thursday.

Why people are socializing more about crime even as it becomes rarer.