Jared Taylor, founder of white nationalist publication American Renaissance, can proceed with a lawsuit against Twitter for banning his accounts.

The renowned purveyor of peer-to-peer sharing software such as BitTorrent and μTorrent has been sold to blockchain entrepreneur Justin Sun's Tron, allegedly for a dazzling $140 million price.

Repetition is an inevitable part of creation.

According to a study at Offenburg University, 96.5% of YouTubers don’t make enough annual ad revenue to reach the U.S. federal poverty line.

President Trump decided this morning to take a very odd step of sounding off about the domestic politics of a major ally, Germany. His core factual assertion that “crime in Germany is way up” is the opposite of true. On the contrary, in May, Interior Minister Horst Seehofer — who is actually the leader of the immigration-skeptical forces inside Chancellor Angela Merkel’s cabinet — released new data indicating that Germany’s crime rate had fallen to its lowest level since 1992.

"It definitely got to me," the teacher said of Jake Paul's song.

James Bridle’s essay on disturbing YouTube content aimed at children went viral last year. Has the problem gone away – or is it getting worse?

Rules appear to target services like Onavo Protect, which claims to protect user data even as it feeds information to Facebook

The Facebook CEO can’t be trusted.

Former CEO of company at the centre of the Facebook data-mining scandal is appearing before the Commons ‘fake news’ inquiry.

Iraq’s representative at the 2017 Miss Universe pageant — whose Instagram photo last year with her Israeli counterpart forced her family to flee the Middle Eastern country — was cheered and hugged this week by shoppers at an iconic Jerusalem market during an extraordinary visit to Israel. “It actually felt weird — the people look like my people. And the city looks like Damascus, like Syria, and I’ve been there, so everything seems familiar to me,” Sarah Idan said in a TV item aired Tuesday by Hadashot.

The chaotic message board is the soul of the internet, the deep source of its sights and sounds—for worse and, occasionally, for better.

Interview with iHeart Radio

A new Russian influence operation has surfaced that mirrors some of the activity of an internet firm that the FBI says was deeply involved in efforts to sway the 2016 U.S. elections, a cybersecurity firm says. A website called usareally.com appeared on the internet May 17 and called on Americans to rally in front of the White House June 14 to celebrate President Donald Trump’s birthday, which is also Flag Day.

Dating apps are a booming business, but they may be taking a toll on their users' mental health.

It’s the end of an era for Yahoo Messenger, one of the first instant messaging apps on the market that introd. Today, Oath (which also owns TechCrunch) announced that it would be winding down the service on July 17 as it continues to experiment and consider how and if it can have a relevant place in the messaging landscape amid huge domination from Facebook and others in mobile apps.

Kat Von D might not be a household name to everyone, but the celebrity tattooist-turned-make-up mogul is extremely influential in her field, with a social media reach of millions. In recent days the pregnant 36-year-old has found herself at the centre of a huge online row after announcing on Instagram that she and her husband plan to raise their son vegan and vaccination-free.

IIt isn’t easy being a political cartoonist or satirist in India. They incur the wrath of politicians, are subjected to vicious trolling on social media and in some cases, even face arrest on charges of sedition, leading to prolonged, expensive lawsuits. A recent ruling by the Madras High Court, however, stands out as a beacon of hope for those who revel in lampooning.

Yelp reviewers, beware. A Manhattan woman who gave one-star reviews on Yelp and ZocDoc to a Kips Bay gynecologist has spent nearly $20,000 defending herself against a defamation suit.

After a white supremacist killed a protester in Charlottesville in 2017, Facebook pushed to re-educate its moderators about hate speech groups in the US, and spell out the distinction from nationalism and separatism, documents obtained by Motherboard show

While your selfie might get lots of “likes” on social media, companies and perhaps fraudsters might “like” your face even more, because they can profit from it. Now, a Toronto researcher has found a way for internet users to opt out.

Won’t you be my neighbor?

Child health advocates are petitioning and calling on Facebook founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to scrap Facebook’s Messenger Kids app, The Guardian reports. The campaigners have also started a petition, which has gathered 21,000 signatures so far. They are warning about the power of social media, the toll it can take on children and adolescents, urging Mark Zuckerberg to use his influence and reach to promote the well-being of children around the world, instead of “targeting” them.

Analysts will explore how fake news and pornography spreads, and assess whether country needs its own version of the platform.

Five years ago Mark Zuckerberg debuted a bold, humanitarian vision of global internet. It didn’t go as planned—forcing Facebook to reckon with the limits of its own ambition.

The Facebook founder faces questions from European lawmakers over the data scandal and fake news.

Facebook CEO exploited ability to access data from any user’s friend network, US case claims

On the first day of GDPR enforcement, Facebook and Google have been hit with a raft of lawsuits accusing the companies of coercing users into sharing personal data. The lawsuits, which seek to fine Facebook 3.9 billion and Google 3.7 billion euro, were filed by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems, a longtime critic of the companies’ data collection practices.

Facebook really doesn’t want to be a media company. The social network announced this morning it’s removing its often controversial “Trending” section from its site next week, in order to make way for “future news experiences,” it says.

Apple will attempt to frustrate tools used by Facebook to automatically track web users, within the next version of its iOS and Mac operating systems. "We're shutting that down," declared Apple's software chief Craig Federighi, at the firm's developers conference. He added that the web browser Safari would ask owners' permission before allowing the social network to monitor their activity.

Data collection is as problematic in 2018 as it was in 1996

It’s polarizing our politics, making us ignore inconvenient facts and impeding real activism.

Every artist can relate. Very few of us got into this business because we wanted to have to manage social media accounts or approve an advertising campaign. Writers became writers because they wanted to write. Actors want to act — not spend two weeks on a grueling press tour. The founder wants to be working on their product, not polishing blog posts for some content marketing side hustle.

The “Laurel or Yanny?” phenomenon was the logical endpoint of 300 years of American media.

The social media platform enables companies to illegally focus on younger candidates, according to an expanded class-action.