A tiger cub that appeared in a popular – and controversy-courting – YouTube star’s video is at the center of an investigation by the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office, which charged a man Wednesday on suspicion of mistreating the animal.
Read moreFalse narratives spread on social media have been implicated in the turbulent 2016 presidential election in the United States and the 2016 Brexit vote in the United Kingdom, while social media-savvy conspiracy theorists fan the flames around outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and the idea that climate change is a “hoax” – but most teens are staying above the fray, according to a survey by the Pew Research Center published Wednesday.
Read moreAt an arraignment where Tekashi 6ix9ine pleaded not guilty to gang-related racketeering and gun charges, federal prosecutors lobbied Monday for a deep dive into the rapper’s social media accounts.
Read moreAs Facebook attempts to navigate the choppy waters of fighting fake news and protecting free speech, two lawsuits filed Tuesday claim the social media giant is failing at one of those tasks by suppressing the views of a Russian news agency and an Egyptian-born activist.
Read moreA federal judge in Memphis ruled Friday that the city’s failure to properly train members of its police department caused it to violate a 1978 agreement not to collect political intelligence on activists exercising their First Amendment rights.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel gave little indication Tuesday whether it will revive a proposed class action accusing Facebook of spying on cancer sufferers to target them with medical advertising.
Read moreIf you’ve participated in elections in the last two years and stayed engaged politically through social media, you’ve likely come across a pesky automation tool that two-thirds of Americans believe is maliciously used to generate political influence.
Read moreIn the latest fallout over yet another Silicon Valley privacy scandal, computer users hit Google and its parent company Alphabet with a federal class action Monday night for potentially exposing the data of up to 500,000 users of Google Plus to outside parties.
Read moreDoes a politician have the right to block critics from their official social media pages? That question was asked of an appeals court for the first time Wednesday.
Read moreA meeting between top state law enforcement officials and Attorney General Jeff Sessions about how the government can safeguard the privacy of social media users ended without a decision on whether to investigate.
Read moreA federal judge partially granted the University of South Florida’s request to compel discovery by ordering a student who reported rape to produce text messages between her and the accused party.
Read moreEuropean authorities are planning to slap internet companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook with big fines if they don’t take down extremist content within one hour.
Read moreEven people who prefer to get their news on social media platforms are worried about fake news, a Pew Research Center poll revealed Monday.
Read moreAlready sued by The New York Times for similar conduct, a Queens woman was hit with a lawsuit that says she has been falsely presenting herself as a Wall Street Journal reporter.
Read moreFacebook accuses Blackberry in a federal complaint of violating six patents for instant-messaging software.
Read moreMaine Governor Paul LePage must face a lawsuit from two constituents whom the Republican has blocked on Facebook, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreA class action lawsuit filed Thursday seeks billions of dollars in damages from Facebook for sharing user’s private data with device makers, adding to the woes of the social media behemoth already rocked by scandal and a recently plunging stock price.
Read moreIn addition to sowing discord ahead of the presidential election in 2016, Russian internet trolls and bots had a hand in spreading disinformation about vaccines, a new study found.
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