Before he was murdered by Saudi Arabia, Jamal Khashoggi faced online harassment from influencers and bots. Their new targets are worried.

Frozen meat company Steak-umm has gone on another tweetstorm — this time raising awareness of how to fight misinformation.

Chinese media have attacked western counterparts over a photo of weightlifting gold medallist Hou Zhihui. Read more here.

Idan Abada's rig looks different from the rows of whirring ASICs that have become synonymous with crypto mining. But at today's prices, he's losing money.

How the company’s pledge to bring the world together wound up pulling us apart.

Facebook is trying to convince religious groups to partner with it, The New York Times reports. According to The Times' report, Facebook has been courting religious groups since at least 2018, but it has made even more effort over the past year.

Google's YouTube is still recommending extremist and white supremacist videos to viewers already susceptible to racial hatred, a new report found. Though the nation's most popular social media platform has removed large amounts of extremist content under political pressure, exposure to harmful videos is still common, and users who view extremist videos are still being recommended...

A renowned developer who used the pseudonym Near/Byuu last month posted a Twitter thread excoriating the online forum Kiwi Farms for intense bullying and implied they were going to kill themselves. The thread was shared more than a thousand times and lit up the gaming scene after reports that Near later died by suicide.

A mysterious marketing agency secretly offered to pay social media stars to spread disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines. Their plan failed when the influencers went public about the attempt to recruit them.

Twitter is outright blatant when it says it wants to make money for you—and for them—through its slew of new features including Super Follows and Tip Jar. That's a big boast and subsequent bet as the social media platform stock surged after posting a strong second-quarter beating analyst expectations.

Social media is designed to be addicting, but it doesn't have to be. Whether you're looking for a full detox or just trying to find balance, here are four tips to help you create a healthier relationship with social media.

A Wall Street Journal investigation found that TikTok only needs one important piece of information to figure out what you want

Dangerous viral social media challenges can be attractive to teens who crave peer approval and are more prone to risk-taking behaviors.

Google Drive is adding the ability for users to block other accounts from sharing files with them, in a move that’s designed to prevent potential harassment and spam on the platform. The feature, which is rolling out over the next two weeks, also stops accounts from accessing any files you’ve shared with them in the past, and removes any of their past files from your drive.

The algorithm that suspended me for quoting my favorite sci-fi movie is the same one that allows countless Facebook Pages to spread dangerous and false content about vaccines and COVID-19. I love movies. I especially love sci-fi movies, and I love to quote them. But I didn't realize quoting a cult film from 1984 would get me suspended from posting on Facebook for three days.

Twitter’s trying to learn which tweets you hate.

The social network and the Biden administration have engaged in an increasingly rancorous war of words over the issue of vaccine misinformation.

He was responding to a question from a reporter about the alleged role of platforms like Facebook in spreading falsehoods about vaccines and the pandemic. The White House has put increased pressure on social media companies to tackle disinformation.

For example, a Facebook admin of an extremist group could designate someone within that space to be an "expert," whose posts will be amplified.