Facebook is introducing new tools in Germany to help combat the spread of fabricated news stories. The world’s largest social network said it would enable German users to flag potentially false...
Facebook is to create measures to curb the spread of fake news in Germany Facebook is to introduce measures to tackle the spread of fake news in Germany, ahead of its national elections this year....
Facebook is introducing new tools in Germany to help combat the spread of fabricated news stories. The world’s largest social network said it would enable German users to flag potentially false...
Sony Music has said sorry to pop star Britney Spears, after an official Twitter account suggested the pop star had died. The entertainment firm quickly removed the hoax tweets, saying its global...
One of Netflix Inc's (NFLX. O) Twitter accounts was hacked on Wednesday by an entity calling itself "OurMine". Several mocking tweets were sent from the Netflix US Twitter account (@netflix)....
The Netflix US Twitter account – with 2.5m followers – has been compromised by a hacker group. The group, OurMine, posted tweets promoting its own website and services. However, the tweets were...
The families of three victims from the Orlando nightclub shooting filed a lawsuit on Monday against Twitter, Facebook and Google for providing "material support" to ISIS. The suit claims that the...
Today, Viber is rolling out a brand new update that brings the ability to share short video messages with your friends list, as well as integrations with third-party services like Giphy and...
Critics on social media networks especially Whatsapp, Twitter and Facebook have hurled insults at her for the utterance made on live TV. Most people who decided to share their thoughts on the issue...
Facebook has announced new features to help combat fabricated news stories on the world’s largest social network. New reporting features are being rolled out, along with other changes designed to...
Instagram says it has fixed a "bug" that saw users geo-tag themselves as being in Singapore in a bid to go viral - even though they were not there. Some users claimed the apparent hack increased the...
Facebook says it will start applying warning labels to some "fake news" stories that users share on the social network. Articles that are known to be false -- seemingly published with the intent to...
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are falling short of a commitment to tackle hate speech quickly, research suggests. The European Commission looked into whether the tech giants were meeting a pledge to...
Bored while you wait for someone to text back? Now you can challenge friends for high scores on Facebook Messenger’s new Instant Games, like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Words With Friends Frenzy....
Instagram has become the latest social media company to embrace live video broadcasts. Following in the footsteps of Facebook, which owns Instagram, YouTube and Twitter’s live-streaming app...
Barcelona will have a new name on the front of their jerseys from the start of the 2017-18 season with Rakuten becoming their new sponsor as part of an initial four-year deal worth an estimated...
Twitter has announced new ways for users to tackle abusive messages and hateful content on its platform. The “mute” button, which enables users to not see tweets from individual accounts, is...
WhatsApp has introduced a number of new features in recent months but perhaps the most eagerly awaited has been video calling. Some users briefly flirted with video calls back in May but it took...
WhatsApp has introduced a number of new features in recent months but perhaps the most eagerly awaited has been video calling. Some users briefly flirted with video calls back in May but it took...
When you have a billion people using your service, you have an obligation to keep your users secure, even when they behave in unsafe ways. Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer (CSO) at Facebook,...
