Samoan authorities warned Friday that anti-vaccine propaganda would not be tolerated, after a social media campaigner was arrested for opposing a mass immunization drive aimed at containing the Pacific nation’s deadly measles epidemic.
Read moreTwo documentary film organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security in the District of Columbia Thursday over the registration requirement that forces 14.7 million visa applicants to disclose their social media aliases.
Read moreBillionaire Elon Musk endured a second day of questioning Wednesday in a defamation suit over his tweet calling a British cave expert a “pedo guy.”
Read moreA defamation trial against Tesla CEO Elon Musk began Tuesday with his attorney claiming that Musk calling a British cave diver a pedophile in a tweet was part of an argument between the men.
Read moreRussia’s lower house of parliament has passed a bill that gives the government the right to register bloggers, journalists and social media users as foreign agents.
Read moreThe FBI cannot hide whether it uses powerful surveillance tools to monitor the social media activity of millions of Americans and noncitizens, a federal judge ruled Monday.
Read moreA lawyer for a cheerleader kicked off of her high school squad over a scurrilous Snap post urged the Third Circuit on Tuesday to affirm their courtroom victory.
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Freedom House issued its annual report Tuesday, warning that social media is an increasingly dangerous tool for mass surveillance and manipulation of elections. Global internet freedom also declined for the ninth straight year, the nonpartisan, government-supported organization found.
Read moreU.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has unblocked a former New York politician on Twitter and apologized to him, just before she was to take the stand in his First Amendment lawsuit against her.
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Twitter’s ban on political advertising is ratcheting up pressure on Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg to follow suit. But so far, that doesn’t appear likely to happen.
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Most registered voters want social media giants to enact policies banning all false or misleading political ads on their platforms, a Morning Consult poll found Thursday.
Read moreSocial media giant Twitter announced Wednesday it will ban all political advertisements, claiming large-scale, targeted messages influences too many votes and disinformation can impact the lives of millions.
Read moreTwitter has become the platform of choice for reporters and news junkies since its creation in 2006, but a new study from the Pew Research Center reveals that a only a small fraction of users contribute to the vast majority of political commentary on the website.
Read moreRoger Stone, longtime adviser to President Donald Trump, remains barred from social media after the D.C. Circuit refused to lift a gag order Tuesday.
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Russia’s interference in the 2016 U.S. election has generally been seen as two separate, unrelated tracks: hacking Democratic emails and sending provocative tweets. But a new study suggests the tactics were intertwined.
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Turkey summoned a top American diplomat Sunday after the U.S. Embassy’s official Twitter account “liked” a tweet that said the people of Turkey should prepare for a political era without the leader of Turkey’s national party, who is reportedly ill.
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As the number of Americans who get their news from social media grows, concerns about what that means for political diversity are also on the rise, the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday.
Read moreProsecutors on Tuesday aggressively attacked the character of fired Dallas cop and convicted murderer Amber Guyger during the sentencing phase of her trial, showing jurors her social media posts wishing Martin Luther King Jr. dead and joking about killing people.
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