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The Supreme Court on Friday will take up TikTok's high-stakes challenge to a federal law that would effectively shut down the wildly popular video-sharing platform this month unless the company [...]

The top political accounts on X have seen their audiences crumble in the months before the election, a signal of the platform's diminishing influence and usefulness to political discourse under [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima-Strong Elon Musk's X suspended an independent journalist on Thursday for sharing an unverified dossier on vice-presidential candidate JD Vance containing his personal information, with the billionaire CEO [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima-Strong X owner Elon Musk is the world's wealthiest flag-bearer for free speech, but under his leadership the social media platform is acceding to government requests to take [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy RIO DE JANEIRO - For more than three weeks, a question has loomed over Brazil and much of the tech world: Who would back down first? Would [...]

Byline: Samantha Chery Thaís Garcia, 32, has accepted that she can no longer scroll through X in São Paulo, Brazil, but her fingers haven't quite gotten the memo. Out of [...]

Byline: Terrence McCoy, Trisha Thadani, Marina Dias RIO DE JANEIRO - A Brazilian supreme court justice on Friday ordered the suspension of X in Latin America's largest country, a dramatic [...]

Byline: Will Oremus Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) that the Biden administration in 2021 'repeatedly pressured' his company to [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that the Biden White House, top government health officials and the FBI likely violated the First Amendment [...]

Byline: Erica Werner Montana's legislature on Friday approved the nation's first complete ban on TikTok in a state, sending a bill to the governor that would prohibit sales of the [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell The Commerce Department would wield broad powers to ban or restrict TikTok and other technology apps rooted in foreign countries under a bill introduced Tuesday by a [...]

Byline: Meaghan Tobin and Lyric Li ChatGPT has made a splash in China, as it has all over the world. Scammers used it to issue fake traffic citations. Universities banned [...]

Byline: Will Oremus, Jennifer Hassan and Faiz Siddiqui New Twitter owner Elon Musk tweeted Monday encouraging 'independent-minded voters' to vote Republican, marking a major departure for leaders of social media [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Texas on Wednesday filed a petition calling on the Supreme Court to reject an emergency application seeking to block a state law regulating content moderation decisions at [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Texas on Wednesday filed a petition calling on the Supreme Court to reject an emergency application seeking to block a state law regulating content moderation decisions at [...]

Byline: Pranshu Verma Over recent weeks, social media posts out of Shanghai have painted a dire picture of life under Chinese government lockdown. To mitigate the spread of the coronavirus, [...]

Byline: Will Oremus Last month, as many tech companies sided with Ukraine over Russia's invasion, TikTok appeared to follow suit by suspending new video uploads and live streams from Russia. [...]

Byline: Drew Harwell An international resistance of computer programmers and volunteer 'information warriors' is racing to pierce Kremlin propaganda and expose ordinary Russians to the uncensored truth of a brutal [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Jeremy B. Merrill and Gerrit De Vynck In the first four days of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, viewership of more than a dozen Russian state-backed propaganda channels [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski and Elizabeth Dwoskin Russia's Internet censor on Friday announced it plans to block access to Facebook, a dramatic step that will cut Russian citizens' access to information [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski and Elizabeth Dwoskin Russia's Internet censor on Friday announced it plans to block access to Facebook, a dramatic step that will cut Russian citizens' access to information [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Cat Zakrzewski and Gerrit De Vynck Major social media companies including YouTube, Facebook and TikTok moved to ban Russian state media outlets in Europe, blocking Moscow's biggest [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima and Aaron Schaffer Social media companies, including Facebook and YouTube, announced plans over the weekend to block ads from Russian state media outlets and to limit these [...]

Byline: Jennifer Hassan Netflix released a new true-crime documentary last Wednesday about a man who filmmakers claim scammed dozens of victims, mainly women, for an estimated $10 million after matching [...]

Byline: Aaron Gregg Twitter says it will remove private photos and videos if they are posted without a person's consent, according to a company blog post. The social media company [...]

Byline: Jonathan Edwards A Republican congressman was defiant after Twitter locked his account for intentionally misgendering a high-ranking transgender official - an act the social media platform deemed 'hateful.' Rep. [...]

Byline: Ashley Fetters and Gerrit De Vynck Glance at Jessica Alix Hesser's Instagram page and you may feel a little like you've just opened up a pamphlet for a meditation [...]

Byline: Rachel Pannett Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts it said were part of a disinformation campaign largely run out of Russia that also used social media influencers to peddle [...]

Byline: Eugene Volokh Donald Trump has sued Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for deplatforming him. In his suits, he mainly claims that those tech platforms were essentially coerced by the federal [...]

Byline: Danielle Paquette DAKAR, Senegal - Nigeria's telecom companies had officially blocked Twitter, and the attorney general vowed to prosecute those who found a way to use it, but Editi [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin and Gerrit De Vynck Just days after violent conflict erupted in Israel and the Palestinian territories, both Facebook and Twitter copped to major faux pas: The companies [...]

Byline: Charlie Warzel On Wednesday morning, Facebook's oversight board upheld the platform's suspension of Donald Trump but punted on a long-term solution for the former president's account. In its decision, [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin and Cat Zakrzewski Facebook's Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld the social network's ban on former president Donald Trump but punted the ultimate decision back to the company, [...]

Byline: Margaret Sullivan In more than 1,400 posts from Jan. 1, 2020, to Jan. 6, 2021, Donald Trump used Facebook to spread false information with devastating consequences for the country. [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin and Cat Zakrzewski Facebook's Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld the social network's decision to ban former president Trump four months after Capitol riot, but also gave Facebook [...]

Byline: Eugene Scott Former president Donald Trump and other Republicans expressed outrage Wednesday over the Facebook Oversight Board's decision to extend Trump's ban from the social media platform - and [...]

Byline: Elizabeth Dwoskin, Cat Zakrzewski and Heather Kelly Facebook's Oversight Board on Wednesday upheld the social network's decision to ban former president Trump for encouraging violence following the Jan. 6 [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan As hospitals in India run out of oxygen and the country continues to set alarming records for confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, officials have ordered Twitter [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan As hospitals in India run out of oxygen and the country continues to set alarming records for confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths, officials have ordered Twitter [...]

Byline: Jay Greene SEATTLE - Twitter moved to shutter several accounts this week purporting to be Amazon warehouse employees, after the social-media site's users discovered they were fake. The accounts [...]

For Print Use Only. This appeared in Wednesday's Washington Post. - - - Who decides whether Donald Trump may return to Facebook? The answer, surprisingly, is not Facebook - but [...]

Byline: Adam Taylor Twitter permanently suspended an account that appeared to belong to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday following a tweet that hinted at violence against former President [...]

Byline: Ellen Nakashima, Mark Berman and Matthew D. LaPlante WASHINGTON - The dramatic move by big technology firms to evict tens of thousands of users from their social media accounts [...]

Byline: Rachel Lerman YouTube suspended President Donald Trump from uploading new videos to his official account for at least a week, joining fellow social media giants Twitter and Facebook in [...]

Byline: Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin Twitter said late Monday that it purged more than 70,000 accounts affiliated with QAnon after the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol last week. [...]

Byline: Tony Romm Twitter shares plunged by more than 10% Monday in early morning trading following the social-media giant's move to ban President Donald Trump, reflecting fears of political retribution [...]

Byline: Laura Vozzella Facebook suspended the official account of a Virginia state senator and gubernatorial candidate Friday, days after the self-described 'Trump in heels' praised rioters who stormed the U.S. [...]