Police in India’s northeastern Tripura state have launched criminal cases against 102 Twitter account holders for allegedly “spreading fake and distorted information” that police say incited mob attacks on local buildings affiliated with Muslim residents in October, Asian News International (ANI) reported Saturday.
The wife of Gov. Newsom tweeted then deleted a message urging people to “stop hating” her husband for not appearing in public for days.
The more disgusting, venal, incompetent, and destructive our political class grows, the more it wants to clamp down on our ability to tell us what we think of it. Funny that.
Social media star Damaury Mikula, 18, was arrested on Friday for allegedly running a stop light and leading Florida Highway Patrol troopers on a chase of over 100 miles per hour.
Globo, the biggest news outlet in Brazil, published an op-ed on Wednesday calling for America’s Big Tech platforms to ban President Jair Bolsonaro from social media, much as they banned Donald Trump when he was the sitting president of the United States.
Boris Johnson’s government is claiming to “back freedom of speech to the hilt” even as it moves to prosecute tech bosses who fail to censor “foul content”.
The Virginia gubernatorial election is just days away and the Hampton Roads Black Caucus is doubling down on its endorsement of Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin — the first time in its history it has backed a member of the GOP.
In response to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube deplatforming him, President Donald Trump announced a new social media app.
WeProtect Global Alliance, an international coalition of private entities and government agencies dedicated to protecting children from online sexual exploitation, released a report on Tuesday that found child sexual abuse increased significantly during the coronavirus pandemic.
The French Interior Ministry has claimed that a majority of online Islam content in France is connected to radical ideology.
Three days after the suspected Islamist-inspired killing of British MP Sir David Amess, Home Secretary Priti Patel has suggested the incident could usher in restrictions on anonymity on social media to combat “cruel comments and attacks” on politicians from anonymous users.
Selena Gomez deleted all her social media apps in 2017 and says the decision saved her life.
The French platform for reporting illegal content online says it made nearly 10,000 reports of terrorist material this year, a figure over 200 per cent higher than last year.
During a portion of an interview with PBS’ “Firing Line” released on Friday, Leopoldo López, one of the opposition leaders in Venezuela, said he is “shocked” by the fact that former President Donald Trump has been kicked off social media
If there was a common theme to the Senate testimony of Frances Haugen, the far-left Facebook “whistleblower,” it was this: social media’s habit of using algorithms to “amplify preferences” is bad, wrong, evil, and should be regulated out of existence — by people like her.
Social media tools provided by Facebook, YouTube and platforms like WhatsApp are enabling migrants seeking to cross the Mexico border into the United States to navigate their way before leading others to follow.
A recent AP-NORC/MeriTalk poll found roughly two-thirds of Americans do not believe the personal information stored online is secure and that the government should do something to make it more secure.
Utah’s Moab City Police Department has released a video of officers interacting with now-missing Gabby Petito — a 22-year-old who documented her cross-country travels on social media — and her boyfriend Brian Laundrie on August 12.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro issued a decree Monday restricting the powers of social media companies to “arbitrarily remove” accounts, profiles, and content they deem unworthy of their platforms, Brazil’s Jornal da Cidade online newspaper reported.
The CEO of Tripwire, creator of the popular games Killing Floor and Red Orchestra, was forced to step down after expressing support for the Texas law to protect the unborn and leftists attacked him on social media.
Facebook users who watched a video from a British newspaper showing black men received an automated prompt from the social media platform asking if they wanted to “keep seeing videos about Primates,” according to the New York Times.
Former first lady Melania Trump said her family is praying for U.S. troops who were killed in a terror attack on Thursday in Afghanistan.
Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who spent years posing as a black civil rights leader, announced this week her OnlyFans page launch.
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terror group has recently ramped up a propaganda campaign on social media, flooding various platforms with radical material in “vernacular languages” native to regions across India, the country’s National Investigation Agency (NIA), revealed Friday.
Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is pushing back against critics of her response to an Instagram post that said, “Abortion is wrong.” Biles recently asked for her Instagram followers to post their unpopular opinions. One such follower responded by saying, “Abortion
A Swiss PhD student has alleged that he was removed from the doctoral programme after tweeting critical sentiments about Communist China.
LONDON (AP) – British police said Thursday they have made 11 arrests in connection with the online racial abuse of England soccer players following their team’s loss to Italy in the final of the European Championship last month.
Several arrests took place when suspects thought they were meeting teenagers for sex but were actually communicating with undercover detectives in central Florida.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas stated that the department is working with tech companies “that are the platform for much of the disinformation that reaches the American public, how they can better use
Just hours before D.C. Mayor Bowser’s mask mandate took effect on Saturday photos surfaced of her officiating a wedding and partying maskless.
