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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 [...]

Google, Apple and others were warned that they must comply with a new law, which would make them more vulnerable to the Kremlin's censorship demands. As Russia attacks Ukraine, the [...]

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 [...]

Online posts by users showing off their receipts, over-ordering food or scattering money have been deemed vulgar. Regulators say such content leads young people astray. He started by exploring the [...]

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: JAMES GRIFFITHS, Staff HONG KONG -- Lead Allegations of sexual assault against a former top Chinese official rocketed through social media Wednesday as censors rushed to contain them, deleting [...]

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 [...]

In 2019, Julie Sweet, the newly appointed chief executive of the global consulting firm Accenture, held a meeting with top managers. She had a question: Should Accenture get out of [...]

We learned last week that Facebook had disabled our Facebook accounts and our access to data that we have been using to study how misinformation spreads on the company's platform. [...]

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: Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY From legislation in statehouses across the country to a lawsuit from Donald Trump, the Republican claim that powerful technology companies are biased against conservatives is [...]

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 [...]

When Facebook and Twitter barred Donald J. Trump from their platforms after the Capitol riot in January, he lost direct access to his most powerful megaphones. On Friday, Facebook said [...]

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 [...]

The decision denies the former president a megaphone at least through the midterm elections. The suspension was put in place after the Capitol riot in January. SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook [...]

Internet companies are making it harder for those with big followings to spread misinformation. Finally! This article is part of the On Tech newsletter . You can sign up here [...]

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 [...]

Good morning and happy Mother's Day. (Hi, mom!) Here's the news you need to know for the week ahead in business and tech. -- Charlotte Cowles What's Up? (May 2-8) [...]

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 [...]

AVIATION Southwest Airlines Orders100 More 737 Max Planes Southwest Airlines is doubling down on Boeing's troubled 737 Max jet, adding 100 new orders for the plane just months after regulators [...]

Officials said the social network had failed to block objectionable political content, a sign of the sacrifices it must make to remain in the vast but difficult market. LinkedIn has [...]

Keep the ban of the former president in place. If you are a public official, there's no more effective or efficient place to lie than on Facebook. It's company policy [...]

Section 230 isn't expected to be revoked, but even the more modest proposals for weakening it could have effects that ripple across the internet. WASHINGTON -- Former President Donald J. [...]

The video platform became the latest American internet giant to take down the military's content since the coup last month. YouTube said on Friday that it had cut five television [...]

The social network had prohibited political ads on its site indefinitely after the November election. Such ads have been criticized for spreading misinformation. SAN FRANCISCO -- Facebook said on Wednesday [...]

The move puts the social network squarely on the side of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement after years of criticism over how the military has used the site. Facebook said on Wednesday [...]

Byline: JOE McDONALD, DAKE KANG, ASSOCIATED PRESS BEIJING -- Lead Zeng Jiajun, a former tech worker, fell in love with social-media app Clubhouse, a window through the ruling Communist Party's [...]

China's censors finally blocked Clubhouse, but not before users were able to bypass the caricatures painted by government-controlled media and freely discuss their hopes and fears. For years, the Chinese [...]

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 [...]