""I just believe strongly that Facebook shouldn't be the arbiter of truth of everything that people say online," the Facebook CEO told Fox News. "In general, private companies probably shouldn't be."

Data compiled by a nonprofit organization dedicated to fact-checking worldwide shows videos spreading misinformation have surged on TikTok.

Just because ads can be targeted to individuals doesn't mean they should be.

President Donald Trump has threatened to close down social-media platforms that he argues censor conservative voices after Twitter on Tuesday tagged some of his messages with a fact-check warning. "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices," Trump tweeted Wednesday. "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016."

Apple has responded to false claims pervading Facebook which state that its latest iOS update enables automatic tracking of users by the government. Apple has issued a statement in response to several false posts on Facebook regarding the exposure notification feature in iOS 13.5.

Speaking in a new interview, legendary producer Dr. Dre has said that he thinks social media has ruined the mystique of an artist.

News articles and tweets denouncing the 5G coronavirus conspiracy theory are being mislabeled.

Kathleen M. Carley and her team at Carnegie Mellon University’s Center for Informed Democracy & Social Cybersecurity have been tracking bots and influence campaigns for a long time. Across US and foreign elections, natural disasters, and other politicized events, the level of bot involvement is normally between 10 and 20%, she says. But in a…

Reddit moderator Gallowboob is stepping away from the site after receiving doxxing and death threats, saying administrators view moderators as "expendable."

Nearly half of the Twitter accounts spreading messages on the social media platform about the coronavirus pandemic are likely bots, researchers at Carnegie Mellon University said Wednesday. Researchers culled through more than 200 million tweets discussing the virus since January and found that about 45% were sent by accounts that behave more like computerized robots than humans.

The hyper-local social media platform Nextdoor is winning over local law enforcement and other government officials in the U.S., alarming civil rights advocates.

To use Twitter effectively, think more about your audience than yourself

Mention North Korean propaganda in casual conversation (as you do) and one name is likely to come up: Ri Chun Hee, the hanbok-wearing, effervescent bearer of news, good and bad, on the DPRK’s screens for over four decades.

It’s hard to believe, but Facebook debuted all the way back in 2004, four years before the first Android phone hit the market. If you were one of

Social networks and other online content providers will have to remove paedophile and terrorism-related content from their platforms within the hour or face a fine of up to 4% of their global revenue under a French law voted in on Wednesday.

Despite the amount of scandals it’s safe to say most people don’t care about their data being monitored by social media.

Facebook has lowered the bar to share ideas as low as it can get and now it is failing its users, exploiting them and systematically misinforming them.

YouTube has deleted conspiracy theorist David Icke’s account. The video-sharing site said the 68-year-old violated its policies on sharing information about coronavirus.

President Donald Trump flipped out over the latest ad by a group of his conservative critics. And they’re just thrilled about it. “We have known all along what a weak man Donald Trump is, how mentally infirm he is, how easily he can be set off,” longtime Republican strategist Rick Wilson, a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, told Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday.

Facebook says it has removed several groups, accounts and pages linked to QAnon, taking action for the first time against the far-right U.S. conspiracy theory circulated among supporters of President Donald Trump. The social-media giant made the announcement Tuesday as part of its monthly briefing on “coordinated inauthentic behavior” on its platforms. That’s Facebook’s term for fake accounts run with the intent of disrupting politics elections and society.