NY Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) used a Wednesday press conference to highlight new state gun controls and emphasized that talking to a would-be gun buyer’s “neighbors online” is now part of a background check.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) pushed legislation he is set to introduce that would require social media platforms to reach out to law enforcement officials whenever there is illegal drug trafficking
On Friday’s broadcast of “CBS This Morning,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram criticized tech companies for their handling of drug dealing on their platform by stating that “107,622 Americans died last year. We will see more deaths this year,” and “there’s
Novelist, Hollywood producer, and left-wing Trump-basher Stephen King says he cannot understand why people continue to support former President Donald Trump, because he believes “most people are good,” and Trump is a “horrible person” who “engaged in criminal behavior.”
A.J. Rice, author of The Woking Dead, said zoomers are having their human authenticity undermined by Me Too, lockdowns, and digital overload.
The CEO of social media optimization service HyperSocial faced major backlash this week after posting a crying selfie following the layoff of a number of employees.
The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police (GMP) has admitted that his force regularly wastes time on investigations into people being offended by things, against the public’s wishes.
Turkey Demands Finland Help Prosecute Resident Who Insulted Erdogan
Bloomberg News reported on Friday that internal messages from executives at TikTok, the Chinese-owned video blogging platform, revealed demands from the Chinese government to establish a stealth account to push Chinese Communist Party propaganda to American and European audiences.
Authorities in the Mexican beach hotspot of Cancun will investigate social media posts that spread false information about violence in the region that scares away tourists.
Former First Lady Melania Trump is slamming former chief of staff Stephanie Grisham for saying Trump did not want to condemn 1/6 violence.
The controversial Chinese app TikTok has shot up the list of news sources for British teenagers, alongside Instagram and Youtube.
Social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok are negatively impacting users’ finances, as well as causing nearly half of Generation Z and Millennials to feel unhappy about their financial situation, according to a recent study.
Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that he knew Elon Musk would not actually acquire Twitter, despite the hype.
Chinese social media reportedly blew up Friday with posts gleefully celebrating the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, who annoyed the tyrants of Beijing with his staunch support for Taiwan.
An online social media post by an account with a transgender flag in its name appearing to threaten trans-critical author J.K Rowling has generated significant outcry online.
A man hired as a coordinator for the D.C. Public Schools’ Office of Equity took to social media to demonize white people.
The number of America’s young people identifying as transgender has almost doubled recently, with citizens ages 13 to 25 accounting for a disproportionate number of that population, according to a new study.
Two weeks after one of China’s most popular social media personalities, “Lipstick King” Li Jiaqi, abruptly disappeared over a minor and probably unintentional defiance of Chinese Communist Party dogma, Beijing is cracking down on other livestreamers by publishing a list of “norms” they could be instantly sent to the digital gulag for violating.
Top Chinese social media influencer Li Jiaqi, known as the “Lipstick King” because he once managed to sell 15,000 units of lipstick in five minutes flat during a livestream performance, was evidently “disappeared” by the tyrannical Chinese government on Friday after he pointed his webcam at a cake that looked like a tank, one day before the 33rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre.
The White House communications office continues struggling to get Biden’s message to the American people, the report notes.
Sweden’s Agency for Psychological Defence has launched a campaign warning Swedes about memes they say spread misleading information.
Ireland’s leftist president has decried the purchasing of social media companies by billionaires as a “form of dictatorship” on a TV station owned by the Irish state.
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) Thursday on MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports” called for federal regulations to monitor social media so people can’t be “hatefully radicalized to harm our democracy.”
Critics have slammed a new European Commission plan to monitor private communications online in the name of protecting children from abuse.
China’s government-controlled social media outlet Weibo began censoring the official United Nations account and banning users from publishing comments by World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Tuesday – and reportedly censoring photos of top official – after Tedros called China’s coronavirus lockdown policy “unsustainable.”
The Attorneys General for Louisiana and Missouri have filed a lawsuit against President Joe Biden for allegedly colluding with big tech social media companies to censor conservatives under the guise of combatting “misinformation.”
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher criticized pushes to deal with social media disinformation for always focusing “on the producers, never the consumers, as if we’re all helpless, dumb blondes ready to believe anything” and said
British parliamentarians have summoned billionaire Elon Musk over his acquisition of Twitter and his plans to revive free speech.
From celebrities to lawmakers and run-of-the-mill leftists, the leak of the U.S. Supreme Court’s draft decision on Roe v. Wade lit up social media with wild accusations ranging from women dying to the reinstatement of slavery.
Hillary Clinton took to social media to weigh in on the leak of the draft of a U.S. Supreme Court decision on Roe v. Wade, which shows a majority of justices reject the idea abortion is a constitutional right.
A Flemish MEP has warned the EU “does not want free speech” after a European Commission official threatened Elon Musk over his takeover of Twitter.
We have three choices in dealing with Big Tech: like it the way it is, break it up, or fix it. Fixing it is the best course.
Elon Musk said Friday people on the far left had a deep dislike for others and themselves but added he was not a fan of the far right.
Barack Obama, in a speech on Thursday calling for more regulation of social media content, described himself as “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist” but immediately clarified that it does not apply to social media companies.
President Macron stated he is open to “dismantling” social media giants and proposed to end anonymity online as he campaigns for re-election.
A Canadian health ministry has apologised for sharing a link to a ‘foot fetish’ porn video instead of government COVID statistics.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC) praised the possibility of Elon Musk taking over Twitter but argued that while someone with Musk’s resources can fix Twitter, “that’s the small fry,” because “You’ve
An automatic word monitor in a new Amazon worker chat app will ban a variety of words and phrases, such as “union,” “fairness,” “pay raise,” “slave labor,” and “master,” among other terms, according to internal documents obtained by the Intercept.
A recent study suggests that the negative impact of social media platforms varies for girls and boys based on their age. Girls are most negatively impacted between the ages of 11 and 13, while boys are most negatively impacted between 14 and 15 years old.
