Critical issues are being debated in North Carolina. The stakes are high as businesses like gyms and bars aren’t yet permitted to reopen fully, and parents continue to juggle jobs and their children’s schooling. However, […]
CANBERRA, Australia — Facebook announced Thursday it has blocked Australians from viewing and sharing news on the platform because of proposed laws in the country to make digital giants pay for journalism. Australian publishers can […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — Encrypted messaging apps Signal and Telegram are seeing huge upticks in downloads from Apple and Google’s app stores. Facebook-owned WhatsApp, by contrast, is seeing its growth decline following a fiasco that forced […]
Facebook and Instagram are silencing President Donald Trump’s social media accounts for the rest of his presidency. The move, which followed Wednesday’s protest at the U.S. Capitol, is also a somber reminder of the enormous […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Federal regulators are ordering Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, TikTok’s parent and five other social media companies to provide detailed information on how they collect and use consumers’ personal data and how their practices […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. government and 48 states and districts sued Facebook Wednesday, accusing it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors and seeking remedies that could include a […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The CEOs of Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday defended their safeguards against ‘disinformation’ in the presidential election and promised Congress they would take vigorous action for two special elections in Georgia that […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Less than a week before Election Day, the CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google are set to face a grilling by Republican senators who accuse the tech giants of anti-conservative bias. Democrats […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The GOP push against Facebook and Twitter accelerated Thursday after Republican senators threatened the CEOs of the social media companies with subpoenas to force them to address accusations of censorship in the […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — YouTube is following the lead of Twitter and Facebook, saying that it is taking more steps to limit QAnon and other conspiracy theories that can lead to real-world violence. The Google-owned video […]
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