A man allegedly connected to the van attack in Barcelona which killed as many as 13, was recently railing over the Israeli occupation of Palestine. Driss Oukabir, who has been arrested in connection with the attack, shared a post on July 21 showing graphic photos and video of a child appearing to be manhandled by an Israeli soldier.

When you open Facebook on Monday, a special message about the 2017 total solar eclipse will promote NASA's live-streaming video feeds.

Their “reputation score” depends on it.

Homosexuality may carry the death penalty in ultraconservative Saudi Arabia, but that did not stop a number of brave activists taking to Twitter last week to declare “I’m straight and I love gays”. The declaration of solidarity would be striking in any Western nation, but coming as it did from a country which beheads married men found guilty of "sodomy", the Arabic language hashtag made quite a statement.

More than 3 million people have endorsed the tweet, which quoted Nelson Mandela, after far-right rally in which woman was killed.

An activist in Thailand has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison after confessing to posting a BBC article on his Facebook account that has been deemed insulting to the nation's monarchy, a rights group said Tuesday. Jatupat Booyapatraksa, 26, was found guilty Tuesday of violating the country's strict lèse-majesté law, which criminalizes all perceived insults to royal family, a representative of Thai legal monitoring group iLaw tells TIME.

Discord, a chat app for video game players, became a digital home for the alt-right before deciding to ban their chat rooms on Monday.

YouTube and parent company Google’s efforts to crack down on extremist content has resulted in embarrassment after its technology targeted videos from monitors, journalists and Syrian opposition, amongst others. A number of accounts, such as those of Airwars, Bellingcat, Middle East Eye and Orient News have had videos removed or suspended as a result of past videos deemed ‘extreme’ by YouTube’s machine learning.

Damore became an ‘alt-right’ hero after Google fired him over his views on women. Did Google-owned YouTube play a role in reinforcing those ideas?

Human cell study AMA on Reddit all cleaned up

In his book 1984, George Orwell detailed a dystopian world wherein a person or persona called “Big Brother” saw everything that people did and where the central government pushed its agenda through propaganda, spying, monitoring, and thought controls. That book was published in 1949.

Bot accounts are a persistent problem on Twitter, where they can be used to spam out favorable news stories and influence politics more broadly.

Automated accounts are being programmed to spread fake news, according to the first systematic study of the way online misinformation spreads

There’s a real person behind the pro-Trump account thanked by the president—but her online name, her photo, and her 146,000 followers are all lies.

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SoundCloud has just closed the necessary funding round to keep the struggling music service afloat.

Fake news, it's a big deal on Facebook, and we might just be getting more of it in the form of videos. Facebook recently bought a startup with an expertise in video manipulation, Deutsche Startups reported. The German-based startup Fayteq has software that is able to remove or add objects in videos, even live ones, and add effects to them.

Join NASA in celebrating the Voyager mission’s 40 years of exploring space. Inspired by the messages of goodwill carried on Voyager’s Golden Record, you’re invited to send via social media a short, uplifting #MessageToVoyager and all that lies beyond it. With input from the Voyager team and a public vote, one of these messages will be selected for NASA to beam into interstellar space on Sept. 5, 2017—the 40th anniversary of Voyager 1’s launch.

Facebook is debuting a YouTube competitor called “Watch” that lets you subscribe to shows inside Facebook’s apps and desktop site and watch them in a dedicated tab. Watch will roll out in the US with a few dozen shows tomorrow, but it will eventually go global and feature thousands of series.

President Trump has launched a "real news" video series on his Facebook page, part of his longstanding effort to dismiss the news provided by the mainstream media. The inaugural episode, published Sunday, features Trump's daughter-in-law Lara boasting about the president's accomplishments in front of a background of Trump campaign logos.

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

Both the county and Hays CISD made clear that students and faculty are not part of the drill.

Porn browsing habits and confidential documents are found in supposedly anonymised data.

Understanding sarcasm could help AI fight racism, abuse, and harassment.

Fuck Google and everything it pretends to represent.

Governments around the world are enlisting "cyber troops" who manipulate Facebook, Twitter and other social media outlets to steer public opinion, spread misinformation and undermine critics, according to a new report from the University of Oxford. Adding to growing evidence of government-sponsored efforts to use online tools to influence politics, researchers found 29 countries using social media to shape opinion domestically or with foreign audiences. The tactics are deployed by authoritarian regimes, but also democratically-elected governments, the authors said.

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A day after Twitter revealed that its user base is stagnating like never before, the company began inviting users to test a subscription service that automatically promotes tweets to a wider audience for a monthly fee.

Facebook is working on a video chat device for the home and a standalone smart speaker.

#reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion website. According to Alexa, a platform specializing in measuring internet traffic and statistics, Reddit is the fifth most popular website in the United States and the United Kingdom, the ninth most visited website in the world, with more than half a billion unique monthly visitors. Clearly, Reddit is an absolute internet giant.

That Martin Shkreli is still a real online charmer — even while facing a possible prison sentence. Shkreli, who is on trial for securities fraud, boasted Thursday night on Facebook that if he gets acquitted he will get to have sex with a female journalist — the same woman whose earlier harassment by the "pharma bro" got him banned from Twitter.

Allowing governments access to Facebook’s encrypted message service, used by the Westminster Bridge terrorists, would make extremists harder to track, its boss claims.

Elon Musk usually tweets about mundane topics, from LA traffic to Tesla projects. On Thursday he was more dire. "The world's population is accelerating towards collapse, but few seem to notice or care," Tesla's CEO tweeted to his nearly 10 million followers. He pointed to a November article in New Scientist magazine titled, "The world in 2076: The population bomb has imploded."

Event on using technology to fight terrorism told small networks facing an influx and lack resources to block accounts

They’re heroes in the industry, idolized by an army of millennial gamers. But their true legacy is hiding in plain sight. By John Adkins.