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.

WhatsApp has said it blocked over two million accounts in India in May and June for violating rules. The service said 95% of these users were blocked for violating the limits of the number of times messages can be forwarded in India. The submissions were made by WhatsApp in its first monthly compliance report under India's controversial new IT rules.

Reports suggest Facebook may favor controlling its image to providing full transparency.

Want to make a splash on Twitter? You have a better chance of getting noticed by saying something angry or insulting. So concludes a recent study that looked at the impact of both positive and negative tweets from news organizations of various political leanings. They found that, for both right-leaning and left-leaning media, "Negative news spreads farther through the current Twitter network than positive news."

They flaunted their participation in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol on social media and then, apparently realizing they were in legal trouble, rushed to delete evidence of it, authorities say. Now their attempts to cover up their role in the deadly siege are likely to come back to haunt them in court.