The Chinese social media platform WeChat is warning users outside China that their data will be stored on servers inside the country, RFA has learned
The violent crowd that stormed the US Capitol on January 6 last year sparked action among social media companies in the United States. They took down President Donald Trump’s accounts at the time. Are Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube any better prepared to deal with similar situations in the United States or elsewhere a year later?
The most famous videos on YouTube are of children having a good time. They’re also a fast-growing industry, with little regulations and supervision to protect children on both sides of the computer
Tunisian police are arresting social media activists for criticizing the government online and calling for protests, according to rights groups
The U.S. government’s suit against Facebook for illegally stifling competition and limiting consumer choice will be watched worldwide, particularly by the social network’s more than two billion users
Netizens believe that right to poke fun and even to offend others even religiously or even cyber stalking is an integral part of freedom of speech but some experts believe that freedom is not absolute and should not use as a licence to abuse.
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Theories about the death of Jeffrey Epstein, a financier at the center of a sex trafficking case, took off on Twitter and Facebook over the weekend, making their way quickly into mainstream news
In late 2016, CEO Mark Zuckerberg infamously dismissed as “pretty crazy” the idea that fake news on his service could have swayed the election. He later backtracked, and since then the company has reduced the amount of misinformation shared on its service, as measured by several independent studies
With U.S. social media companies tightening their content policies in the wake of the recent mosque shootings in New Zealand, some extremist groups are getting pushed to the margins of the internet. Researchers say that has turned Russian social media platforms such as VKontakte, or VK, into safe harbors
Christchurch, New Zealand, mosque shooting last month highlighted the continuing struggle by social media companies to police extremist content on their platforms