Parking restrictions spark frustration more often than delight, but a newly-installed sign in Wiesbaden, Germany has been declared "the most adorable act of random kindness ever" as social media users shared the story online. Food and travel writer Christie Dietz, whose four-year-old son has parked his bike by the same lamppost "just about every day for the last year", discovered the space had now been reserved just for him.

Earlier this summer, John Oliver called Facebook “History’s Most Profitable Data-Harvesting Machine,” which was charitable compared to Sunday night’s 20-minute takedown on the company’s hate speech policies and content moderation, especially in countries that are newly getting online. Oliver compared Facebook unfavorably to toilets, which “make shit go away, whereas Facebook retains shit, disseminates shit to your acquaintances, and reminds you of shit from seven years ago while allowing corporations to put their shit in front of you. What I’m saying is there’s a purity and integrity to toilets that Facebook seriously lacks.”

The setting allows women to start the conversation, and it's currently being trialled.

Labour’s Angela Rayner wants to end online abuse, but she fails to understand the lives of those outside the political and media bubbles, says former Guardian special projects editor James Ball.

The video giant isn’t doing enough to combat its burnout crisis

You can easily double your Instagram performance just by using the right Instagram insights tools. As Instagram has become a core aspect of modern marketing, it’s important you make the most out of it. I hear most of the small businesses creating an entire marketing strategy around Instagram. And, this makes me wonder how the right implementation of Instagram strategies can help businesses grow. Here are 10 Instagram tools you must check out. Learn more!

To be alive and online in our time is to feel at once incensed and stultified by the onrush of information, helpless against the rising tide of bad news and worse opinions.

The White House has drafted an executive order for President Donald Trump’s signature that would instruct federal antitrust and law enforcement agencies to open investigations into the business practices of Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Facebook Inc. and other social media companies. The order is in its preliminary stages and hasn’t yet been run past other government agencies, according to a White House official. Bloomberg News obtained a draft of the order.

Podcasting is a little more involved than simply speaking into a microphone. But while it takes hard work and dedication, the benefits of creating a podcast are well worth the effort.

Facebook will no longer send employees to work at the offices of political campaigns during elections, the company has announced. The social network used to offer dedicated staff to political campaigns to help them develop their online advertising campaigns. Donald Trump's digital director for the 2016 presidential election has said Facebook's assistance helped him win.

When Tae Cho proposed to his girlfriend Lindsey Crouch on a Florida beach, he thought the moment would be lost forever. But not only did a kindhearted stranger photograph the romantic proposal, she posted the pictures on Facebook in a bid to find the couple - and it worked. Now the Knoxville duo have Heather Swanner's perfect shots, along with a handful of grainy smartphone camera images taken by family members.

It’s that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. Following the shuttering of Klout earlier this year, now Path, the one-time rival to Facebook, is closing its doors, according to an announcement made today.

Instagram is embracing its true identity as a mail-order catalog. The question will be how much power merchants will give Instagram after seeing what its parent Facebook did to news outlets that relied on it.

A couple of days ago, the all-time famous Elon Musk decided to finally call it quits with crypto scams. He tweeted to the founder of Dogecoin, Jackson Palmer, seeking his kind assistance with the nerve wrecking tricks of scam bots.

An Italian court handed down a nine-month prison sentence to a person who wrote fake hotel reviews on TripAdvisor in exchange for money from hotels aiming An Italian court has ruled that writing fake TripAdvisor reviews using a false identity is illegal and sentenced someone to nine months in prison.

Nintendo posted an exciting tweet when they noticed that Mario Kart was trending worldwide! However, they backpedaled after realizing it was because Stormy Daniels compared Donald Trump’s penis size to one of its characters! Nintendo is apologizing after the gaming brand applauded the fact that its game Mario Kart, along with the character, Toad were trending worldwide on September 18.

The most famous entrepreneur of his generation is facing a public reckoning with the power of Big Tech.

UK news organisations have cited tweets from Russian trolls more than 100 times, a Guardian investigation has found, in stories about topics including Donald Trump, Donald Glover and Lena Dunham. In June the US Congress released details of 1,000 accounts that Twitter believes were run by the Internet Research Agency (IRA), a state-backed misinformation operation based in St Petersburg, adding to more than 2,000 accounts the company had already identified.

The site’s new web and mobile platforms will no longer be just about reviews – it will host content from major publishers, too

The company rejects Silicon Valley’s aggressive, hype-driven way of doing business. But its slow and steady approach has frustrated some investors and employees.

European authorities are planning to slap internet companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook with big fines if they don’t take down extremist content within one hour. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in a speech Wednesday that the Commission is proposing the new rules as part of efforts to step up the bloc’s security. He said that removing material within an hour is important because it’s “the critical window in which the greatest damage is done.”

Podcasting was supposed to be one of the saviors of digital media—inexpensive, addicting, profitable, and popular. But now it’s like the old line from baseball legend Yogi Berra: “That place is so popular, no one goes there any more.”

Portal is the company's first device outside of Oculus.

On Facebook, right-wing meme pages play a vital role in condensing and recycling far-right talking points and keeping the MAGA base engaged online.

Facebook is planning a major new move into e-commerce, sources tell The Verge

A couple years ago, something strange happened. A friend and I were sitting at a bar, iPhones in pockets, discussing our recent trips in Japan and how we’d like to go back. The very next day, we both received pop-up ads on Facebook about cheap return flights to Tokyo. It seemed like just a spooky coincidence, but then everyone seems to have a story about their smartphone listening to them. So is this just paranoia, or are our smartphones actually listening?

While some teens spent the summer babysitting or working retail, thousands of others made big bucks on the social network.

Why are so many YouTubers finding themselves stressed, lonely and exhausted?

Just a friendly reminder that Kjellberg will still be the biggest individual on YouTube

When the reading brain skims texts, we don’t have time to grasp complexity, to understand another’s feelings or to perceive beauty. We need a new literacy for the digital age.

Generation Z has grown up online – so why are a surprising number suddenly turning their backs on Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat?

A couple years ago, something strange happened. A friend and I were sitting at a bar, iPhones in pockets, discussing our recent trips in Japan and how we’d like to go back. The very next day, we both received pop-up ads on Facebook about cheap return flights to Tokyo. It seemed like just a spooky coincidence, but then everyone seems to have a story about their smartphone listening to them. So is this just paranoia, or are our smartphones actually listening?

And she isn’t going anywhere

Robert Kyncl, Youtube's Chief Business Officer, writes about Article 13, the EU proposal to force all online services to evaluate all user-generated content with a copyright enforcement algorithm and censor anything that looks like a known copyrighted work (anyone can add anything to the databases of known copyrighted works and prevent it from being posted). Kyncl points out that many of today's successful artists got their starts uploading their own material to Youtube and services like it, something that would get a lot harder once the censorship robots take over Europe's internet.

An online community at this scale has perverse and dangerous consequences.