Facebook ‘relied heavily on FBI’ briefings before trying to prevent NY Post story from ‘spreading wildly’: Zuckerberg
Facebook took its cue from the FBI before it decided to limit the distribution of the NY Post's "smoking gun"...
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Senate is hovering over Twitter & Facebook: Dorsey, Zuckerberg to both testify before & after election
Two Senate committees are hovering over two big tech targets, with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey...
Conflicts of interest with Facebook censorship, the Atlantic Council, Burisma & politics: perspective
While receiving nearly half a million dollars from Burisma, the Atlantic Council partnered with Facebook to monitor election misinformation. Then,...
‘Censor social media content & harvest data from banned accounts’: House Intel witnesses testify on combating misinformation
Expert witnesses tell the House Intelligence Committee how to best combat "misinformation" online with more content restriction on social media...
Online censorship is toppling statues that haven’t been built yet: op-ed
To the victors go the spoils, they say, but in the siege of online censorship over freedom of thought, the...
‘Social media services that I & others have built are tearing people apart’: ex-Facebook ads chief testifies
Facebook's former director of monetization testifies that the social media services he helped build are tearing people apart, and that...
Facebook to censor anything it deems necessary to avoid ‘adverse legal or regulatory impacts’
Facebook will start removing user content that could get the social media giant into legal or regulatory trouble in a...
Twitter is flagging links to BitChute videos as potentially harmful & unsafe
Users on Twitter today are finding it difficult to share and open links pointing to video platform BitChute, as they...
US Senator wants answers from Dorsey on Twitter breach that appears to be inside job
On the day of what appears to be the largest breach in Twitter's history, US Senator Josh Hawley pens an...
Twitter acknowledges ‘security incident’ as high profile accounts reportedly hacked in bitcoin-related scam
Twitter says it's "aware of a security incident impacting accounts" as the accounts of high profile individuals such as Barack...
US politicians applaud UK move to ban Huawei from 5G networks
US politicians on one side of the aisle can scarcely contain their glee today as the UK moves to ban...
Facebook says it doesn’t benefit from hate, but its algorithms tell a different story: op-ed
At a time when huge companies are suspending their advertising campaigns on Facebook, the social media giant claims it doesn't...
‘Facebook’s business model is poison & its algorithms amplify misinformation’: digital forensics expert testifies
Facebook's business model is poison and its divisive algorithms are a driving force behind online misinformation, according to a digital...
House Intel Committee ditches script, grills big tech on polarizing users and toxic civic discourse
Today, representatives from big tech companies Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified remotely in a virtual hearing before the House Intelligence...
‘Censorship destroys the very diversity it was meant to protect’: former NSA foreign surveillance agent
A former NSA foreign surveillance agent tells The Sociable how censorship destroys the very diversity of thought it was meant to...
Think for yourself? Facebook removes QAnon-related content as ‘coordinated inauthentic behavior’
Today, Facebook releases its Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior report for the month of April, saying it took down over 30 QAnon-related...
10 fun apps to help you stay connected with friends and family from afar
We all are feeling the strangeness of COVID-19 start to set in. Homes are spotless, we’re running out of shows...
Social media platforms caught up in information overload amid coronavirus pandemic
“That medicine, hydroxychloroquine, it’s working,” said Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro in a video posted on his Facebook page on Sunday,...
The benefits of a social media detox during lockdown
A recent Twitter poll carried out by Mashable revealed that 75 percent of users noticed that their screen time had...
The creativity and togetherness of social distancing on the web
Being hunkered down at home can be very frustrating, but it can also be a lot of fun! On social...
