After 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc, Jr., was arrested on Friday on the suspicion that he mailed 13 explosives to prominent critics of President Donald Trump, the spotlight turned on a Twitter account that appears to belong to him, which he allegedly used to issue veiled threats to critics of the President. Twitter has apologized for not acting on tweets that clearly violated its terms of conduct.

It’s arguably unfathomable that any human being slapped with a $20 million fine for a bad tweet would ever consider returning to the platform, much less continue to fire off word salad at all hours of the day and night. In the face of any logical explanation, however, one such man seemingly continues to insist that he is not owned.

Snapchat is not just an ordinary instant messaging app but a full package of newest features, emojis, and a plethora of other fun tools.

“We Are the Nerds,” by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin, tells the story of the popular internet platform whose unfettered embrace of free expression has proved controversial.

The platform has cast itself as the internet’s kindest place. But users argue harassment is rampant, and employees say efforts to stem it are under-resourced and deprioritized.

After touting his space tourism mission (now set for 2019), Jeff Bezos also weighed in on the current state of social media and the internet in general on Monday. "I think the Internet in its current incarnation is a confirmation bias machine," he said.

Everyone bought into the fable that users actually wanted more video.

Firms paying refunds to buyers who write five-star reviews on Amazon, consumer group says

Instagram and its army of influencers have transformed the modern gym. From the way they look to the classes on offer, everything is designed with the perfect post in mind. The days of Jane Fonda sweating away in a barebones studio are over.

Rumors. Inflammatory and divisive messages. Doctored photos. Kevin Roose, technology columnist, explains how he has waded into that shadowy world to write about it.

A series of research projects, patent filings, and policy changes indicate that the Pentagon wants to use social media surveillance to quell domestic insurrection and rebellion. By Nafeez Ahmed.

Flickr's new owners realize that giving away free storage isn't a great business model.

Social media has created a world in which everyone seems ecstatic – apart from us. Is there any way for people to curb their resentment?

Facebook knows us well enough to know the truth: We don’t care enough about our privacy to stop using it.

Instagram says its new technology proactively detects bullying in photos and captions.

A Chinese live-streaming celebrity has been detained for five days for "insulting" the country's national anthem. Yang Kaili, a 20-year-old with tens of millions of followers, had appeared on camera singing the anthem while flailing her arms around. The live-streaming platform, Huya, had earlier taken down her video and banned her channel.

Twitter has barred hundreds of right-wing accounts for posing as soulless, “nonplayable” liberal activists.

Much of the published medical research goes unread by the general public and medical community, despite being largely funded by the federal government and private foundations. To reach more people, medical journals have begun using social media to promote new research. A new Northwestern Medicine study has found social media editors lack established best practices and support from their journals and home institutions, making it difficult for them to successfully promote new research.

Facebook is still reeling from the hack that exposed 29 million users, but it may have a solution: go shopping. Sources talking to The Information claim that Facebook is accelerating plans to buy a "major" cybersecurity company, and has already offered deals to "several" companies. While the tipsters haven't named candidates, Zuckerberg and team are reportedly likely to buy software that could fold into its existing services, such as tools for signalling hacking attempts or securing individual accounts.

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An Oklahoma pet owner disclosed her own dog’s greedy way to ingeniously get free hamburgers in a McDonald’s drive-thru. Oklahoma City’s Betsy Reyes says that her dog sneaks out from the house at night and pretends to a stray while sitting outside a McDonald’s drive-thru.

On Saturday, a firearm-wielding man massacred at least 11 people attending Shabbat services at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh’s Squirrel Hill neighborhood and injured a number of others. The Anti-Defamation League described it as likely the deadliest single attack on the Jewish community in U.S. history. Authorities identified the suspect, who was captured after a gun battle with responding police, as 46-year-old Robert Bowers—a vitriolic anti-Semite who allegedly announced the attack on the social network Gab.

To be alive and online in our time is to feel at once incensed and stultified by the onrush of information, helpless against the rising tide of bad news and worse opinions.

The video giant isn’t doing enough to combat its burnout crisis

Brian Acton, one of the co-founders of the popular messaging app WhatsApp, said he "sold my users' privacy" when Facebook acquired the company. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for $19 billion in cash and stock in 2014, its biggest acquisition ever. "I sold my users' privacy to a larger benefit," Acton told Forbes. "I made a choice and a compromise. And I live with that every day."

Pro and anti-Donald Trump groups dominated the online boycott against Nike's Colin Kaepernick advertisements – but suspected Russian accounts were also involved. Since 2016, the eyes of the world have been on Colin Kaepernick. And, it turns out, so have the eyes of Russia's disinformation machine. On August 14, 2016, American footballer Colin Kaepernick missed the San Francisco 49ers' first pre-season match against the Houston Texans, suffering from arm fatigue.

The company was hacked at one of the most difficult times in its history. It still faces fallout over its role in a Russian disinformation campaign.

U.S. investigators failed in a recent courtroom effort to force Facebook to wiretap voice calls over its Messenger app in a closely watched test case, according to two people briefed on the sealed ruling.

Facebook recently disclosed that the security of 50 million profiles was compromised when attackers stole “access tokens” that allowed them to break into these accounts. Facebook discovered the breach Tuesday, Sept. 25, and it reset access tokens, forcing users to log back in to their accounts, on Thursday, Sept. 27. The company disclosed the attack last Friday. In addition to Facebook accounts, the stolen access tokens may also compromise accounts on any third-party website that uses Facebook Login.

Former National-Security Adviser Michael Flynn was one of the first to exploit the new battlefield that would ultimately help bring him down.

Critics say legislation ‘violates freedom of expression’

Google is going to shut down the consumer version of Google+ over the next 10 months, the company writes in a blog post today. The decision follows the revelation of a previously undisclosed security flaw that exposed users’ profile data that was remedied in March 2018.

Delta Air Lines played some slow jams when landing at LAX, and rapper T-Pain argued on Twitter that the musical selection needed improvement. According to People, T-Pain posted the following on Twitter: “@Delta we gotta change these boarding/taxiing songs more often guys,” he wrote. “All of Us Million milers (quick brag) have to hear these same joints multiple times a day. I gotta go perform in the Staples Center in a minute and Adele just put me in the weirdest mood. Now I’m crying. Thanx.”