In a media study where a quarter of participants struggled to separate fact and opinion, researchers found that making the distinction came easier to those who are politically informed, tech-savvy and trusting of national news outlets.
Read moreEurope’s new data privacy rules, the General Data Protection Regulation, have taken effect, but what they actually mean remains to be discovered. And whether the GDPR, as it’s known, really helps protect your private data may depend on complaints that Max Schrems, an Austrian privacy activist, filed against Google, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on the day the regulation went into effect.
Read moreElectronic-music star Sacha Robotti brought federal cybersquatting charges Monday, claiming his former managers started redirecting his website traffic to the porn site lemonparty.com after he fired them.
Read moreA federal class action claims Netgear’s wireless network range extenders don’t extend WiFi signal anywhere close to the 200 percent that the California-based company says they do.
Read moreA New York appeals court dismissed the indictment Thursday of a sex offender who did not register his Facebook account with the state.
Read moreA $5 million federal class action claims that Seterus, a mortgage servicer, charges illegal fees for paying online.
Read moreTwo men alleged to be the co-owners of Mugshots.com had their own booking photos taken on Wednesday after South Florida police arrested them following a warrant issued by California’s attorney general.
Read moreOne of the Russian companies that special counsel Robert Mueller has accused of funding the troll farms used to disrupt the 2016 presidential election pleaded not guilty Wednesday in U.S. federal court.
Read moreIs a university responsible for anonymous online threats made against its students? That’s what a group of University of Mary Washington students is hoping to find out after taking their argument to the Fourth Circuit Tuesday.
Read moreProfessional poker player Gordon Vayo claims in a federal complaint that Rational Entertainment Enterprises dba PokerStars “conducts a sham investigation” against players who win a lot of money, “in order to gin up a pretext to deny payment.”
Read moreA 39-year-old San Diegan faces 10 years to life in federal prison and millions of dollars in forfeitures after pleading guilty Monday to conspiring to deliver dangerous drugs through the internet’s Dark Web, including fentanyl, ketamine, oxycodone, amphetamine, and enough carfentanil to kill everyone in Newport Beach.
Read moreAmerican University’s first black female student government president sued the owner a neo-Nazi website and some of its loyal readers Monday over online threats and other harassment she’s been subjected to since her inauguration.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday in a case centered around whether or not a career-ending blog post made by a former professor allegedly criticizing a colleague is protected speech.
Read moreThe chief of the Russian communications watchdog acknowledged Wednesday that millions of unrelated IP addresses have been frozen in a so-far futile attempt to block a popular messaging app.
Read moreDecades-old precedent that lets online retailers ignore state sales tax requirements appeared to divide the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
Read moreThe state communications office for the government of Qatar filed suit in Queens on Wednesday against the unknown internet users it says has been posting false statements about Qatar for the last year on social media. Among other things, the statements include “allegations that Qatar supports corruption and ignites strife.”
Read moreThe operator of a music-streaming website and YouTube channel failed to license hundreds of songs in its impressive collection of live concert recordings, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreFederal prosecutors have charged the creators of the website Backpage.com, one of the largest web forums for classified ads, with facilitating prostitution and conspiracy to launder money in a 93-count indictment unsealed Monday in Arizona.
Read moreAs bots have become inextricably tied to the spread of “fake news,” a new study looking at how automated accounts engage with popular websites finds they are more prolific than humans on Twitter, posting two-thirds of all shared news links.
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