Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said he is “really worried” about the prospect of rival social media app TikTok being banned in the US. The technology billionaire told employees at a staff meeting that President Donald Trump’s plan to ban the Chinese-owned app would set “a really bad long-term precedent”.

Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. posted and deleted a photo from his Instagram account that has many people wondering what happened during his vacation.

Facebook said Thursday it had deep-sixed a Romania-based troll farm rife with accounts masquerading as Black Americans supporting President Trump. The posts purported to be from a guy named David Adrian, who lived in Montana but also somehow simultaneously in Romania, NBC News reported. But the person was fictitious, with a stolen profile photo. Facebook, Instagram and Twitter all removed accounts, NBC News said.

Facebook has deleted a large group dedicated to sharing and discussing QAnon conspiracy theories. QAnon is a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory that a "deep state" network of powerful government, business and media figures are waging a secret war against Donald Trump. A Facebook spokeswoman said the group was removed for "repeatedly posting content that violated our policies".

“A technical error caused a number of hashtags to not show related hashtags. We've disabled this feature while we investigate.”

Twitter has locked the Trump campaign’s account over a clip containing misinformation about the novel coronavirus, saying the account will only be able to resume tweeting if it deletes the tweet in question.

Families are suing TikTok in what has turned into a major legal action in federal court. Dozens of minors, through their parents, are alleging that the video-sharing app collects information about their facial characteristics, locations and close contacts, and quietly sends that data to servers in China.

Don’t count on Tim Cook to bail you out.

The company’s founder says in an interview that he wants it to be “a window” on the world. A Republican senator says it is a “Trojan horse.”

According to TechCrunch, Twitter said FTC (Federal Trade Commission) could soon fine it up to $250 million for misusing users’ personal data. Social media company used these personal data ‘’for safety and security purposes’’ in order to help ad targeting, between the years of 2013 and 2019. Back in October 2019, the company said it was ‘inadvertently’ used for advertising and named it as an error. But it looks like FTC is not satisfied with it.

A viral video featuring doctors making false and misleading claims about coronavirus that was shared by President Trump was removed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube this week.

Twitter on Thursday permanently suspended the Twitter account of David Duke, the former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Duke's account has been active since 2009, according to an archived version on the Wayback Machine, and had more than 53,000 followers. Activist account Sleeping Giants first spotted that Duke's account had been suspended.

The 70-year-old white supremacist had over 53,000 followers on Twitter as of Thursday.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — The Australian government said on Friday it plans to give Google and Facebook three months to negotiate with Australian media businesses fair pay for news...

Instagram has taken action against Madonna for sharing a coronavirus conspiracy theory to her more than 15 million followers. The pop star claimed in a post that a vaccine for COVID-19 had already been found - but that it was being kept from public distribution to "let the rich get richer".

TikTok challenged its competitors on transparency. But what does that actually mean?

When Facebook employees asked CEO Mark Zuckerberg in June whether the company would introduce a donation-matching program, he replied by telling them to temper their expectations because the company was in "the middle of a global recession," BuzzFeed News reported Thursday.

Researchers train machine learning to pick up patterns of social media posts aimed at manipulating political events

The embattled viral video app TikTok could be split off from its Chinese parent company and sold to investors in the United States in order to shield it from regulatory wrath, according to reports. ByteDance, the $110bn (£86bn) Beijing start-up behind TikTok, is said to be discussing the plan with a small group of its US investors, who would buy a majority stake in the app.