The social behemoth is weaving together Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp even as watchdogs and regulators close in. No big deal: Only democracy hangs in the balance.

Moderators working for YouTube had to view mass murders, abortions and suicide, according to the lawsuit.

A new study suggests that engaging with negative content on social media can lead to reduced activation of the prefrontal cortex and impairments in executive functioning. The findings were published in Social and Affective Neuroscience. While it has been established that emotional stimuli can affect cognition, little is known about the neural consequences of consuming emotionally-arousing content on social media. Researchers Sarah M. Tashjian and Adriana Galván set out to explore this topic, by examining the cognitive consequences of reading negative, discriminatory tweets published by President Trump.

Thailand launched legal action on Thursday against tech giants Facebook and Twitter for ignoring requests to take down content, in its first such move against major internet firms.

Nearly 8,000 Facebook users die daily. By the end of this century, Facebook will become the world’s biggest virtual graveyard as there will be more profiles of dead people than of living users. Facebook is just one of the several social media platforms. Twitter, Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Reddit and others have flooded us, garnering millions of users.

The worker watched videos that included beheadings, shootings and child abuse, according to the lawsuit.

A power outage preventing the metal gates in front of Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s home could not keep him locked in. The 48-year-old actor shared on social media over the weekend that in order to get to work, he was forced to rip the electric-powered gates off the entrance to his property. Uploading a photo of the broken gate to Instagram, the former wrestler explains how the damaging weather resulted in a system malfunction, unable to be fixed before he needed to leave.

Nick Clegg, Facebook's head of global affairs, told The Financial Times that the company is preparing in case of chaos after the November election.

Facebook’s head of global policy has denied the tech giant could close its service to Europeans if local regulators order it to suspend data transfers to the US following a landmark Court of Justice ruling in July that has cemented the schism between US surveillance laws and EU privacy rights.

The site used a series of upgrades to keep people coming back for more.

In October of 2017, Facebook denied listening to people's conversations to target ads. At the time, Facebook users all over the world reported weird coincidences where advertisements on Facebook had matched recent conversations they had had that were otherwise unrelated to their online activity.

A former YouTube content moderator is suing the Google-owned company for failing to properly protect her and her co-workers from the mental harms caused by reviewing hours and hours of graphic footage every day.

Facebook has threatened to pack up its toys and go home if European regulators don’t back down and let the social network get its own way. In a court filing in Dublin, Facebook said that a decision by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) would force the company to pull up stakes and leave the 410 million people who use Facebook and photo-sharing service Instagram in the lurch.

An open letter from academics and politicians also targets Amazon, Apple and Microsoft.

Facebook on Thursday announced it has removed three networks consisting of hundreds of accounts, pages and groups tied to Russian malign influence efforts, including accounts with ties to past efforts by the Russian government to target U.S. elections. One of the networks included 214 Facebook accounts, 35 pages, 18 groups and 34 Instagram accounts. It was removed for violating policies against foreign or government interference, with Facebook announcing the networks had posed as journalists or credible news sources in an effort to spread Russian narratives.

Alexander Nix handed penalty for ‘potentially unethical’ behaviour linked to scandal

This documentary from Jeff Orlowski explores how addiction and privacy breaches are features, not bugs, of social media platforms.

A recently fired Facebook employee wrote a memo on her last day at the company detailing how the tech giant routinely ignored or did not prioritize efforts to manipulate elections and political climates around the world, according to a Monday Buzzfeed report. The 6,600-word memo was written by Sophie Zhang, a data scientist whose job while at the company was to identify fake accounts used to manipulate political outcomes.

Microsoft has said that its offer to buy the US operations of hugely popular video-sharing app TikTok has been rejected, paving the way for Oracle to secure a last-minute deal. US President Donald Trump gave a 15 September deadline for the Chinese-owned app to sell or shut down. The Trump administration claims TikTok and other Chinese apps are national security threats.

Sir David Attenborough has joined Instagram in a bid to share his environmentalist views with a larger audience. The legendary broadcaster shared his first post on Thursday. In the short video, the 94-year-old described saving the planet as “a communications challenge”.