Questions posed by a Ninth Circuit panel Thursday suggest a new legal theory could open social media companies to liability for letting terrorists use their networks to spread propaganda.
Read moreThe Covid-19 pandemic has been dominating news airways, but a Wednesday study from the Pew Research Center says Americans who rely on social media for political coverage are not following virus news as closely as others.
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The FBI on Tuesday shut down a Russian-based cyber platform which had more than $17 million in sales for criminal products and services – the largest centralized platform for purchasing compromised social media and financial accounts – following the arrest of its administrator, a hacker who stole customers’ personal information from U.S.-based companies.
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After a panel of the court forbade President Donald Trump from blocking his critics on Twitter, the Second Circuit refused Monday to rehear the case en banc.
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Iranian police have arrested five people for a prank video that shows eggplants falling from the sky in front of a Tehran landmark, state news agency IRNA said Monday.
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Facebook and other tech companies should be regulated like the tobacco industry, says Christopher Wylie, the whistleblower who exposed the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Read moreThe Transportation Security Administration said Sunday it has stopped allowing employees to use the China-owned video app TikTok to create social media posts for the agency after the Senate’s top Democrat raised concerns about potential national security issues.
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Canada’s privacy watchdog on Friday announced an investigation into a US software startup reportedly capable of matching images of unknown faces to photos it mined from millions of websites and social media networks.
Read moreIn the digital age, death seems to have less finality to it amid the abundance of social media accounts left behind in its wake and the struggle for family and friends of the deceased to obtain access to them, according to new research released Sunday.
Read moreA California trial court improperly ordered Facebook, Instagram and Twitter to disclose private communications between a murder victim and prosecution witness in a case stemming from a drive-by shooting, an appeals court in the state ruled, granting the companies’ motion to quash the subpoenas.
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Scotland’s finance minister resigned Thursday after revelations he had reportedly sent hundreds of messages to a 16-year-old boy on social media.
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Europe’s physics lab CERN on Wednesday said it had stopped using a Facebook team-chat application because of concerns about handing over data to the US tech giant.
Read moreA federal court in California ruled that a former school district superintendent and the former principal of a high school are not entitled to qualified immunity on a group of students’ Fourteenth Amendment, state-created danger claim relating to actions taken in response to “racist and derogatory” Instagram posts the students were associated with.
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Four years into federal investigations and hearings spurred on by the foreign effort to influence U.S. elections, Senator Elizabeth Warren released a plan Wednesday calling on tech giants and the government to curb the spread of online disinformation.
Read moreReveal Chat Holdco et al. filed a federal antitrust class action against Facebook, claiming its acquisition of WhatsApp, Instagram and other competitors violates the Sherman and Clayton acts.
Read moreA federal court in Pennsylvania dismissed a police inspector’s claims that he was defamed when an investigative journalism project published one of his comments on a Facebook post in a collection of social media posts by police officers that “appeared to endorse violence, racism and bigotry.”
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An Ohio woman claimed in a federal lawsuit Monday that the state’s anti-stalking and harassment laws have made her afraid that she will be prosecuted for criticizing government officials online.
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