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This fall, Exxon Mobil started targeting New Yorkers with Facebook advertisements that warned about a proposed law that would require electric-only appliances in some buildings. ''If your household was required [...]

In a social media ecosystem facing mounting pressure to combat fake news and polarization, Telegram is the most permissive disseminator of content -- and disinformation. RIO DE JANEIRO -- Shortly [...]

Byline: Will Oremus The morning after Afghanistan's capital fell to the Taliban last week, Facebook said it would continue to ban the group, while Twitter said it would 'remain vigilant' [...]

Byline: Yuri Pérez I came to the United States about a decade ago from Cuba, where I was a pro-democracy student activist. The work I did there was mild by [...]

Sheryl Sandberg knew she'd be asked about the attacks on the Capitol. For the past week, the country had been reeling from the violence in Washington, and with each passing [...]

Really, he can't. That might be one way of trying to grok the stunt of a lawsuit that the former president filed Wednesday against Facebook and Twitter, as well as [...]

Israeli extremists have formed more than 100 new groups on the Facebook-owned encrypted messaging app in recent days to target attacks. Last Wednesday, a message appeared in a new WhatsApp [...]

Byline: Antonia Noori Farzan As Israel and Gaza intensify their violence, videos of a collapsing apartment building, grieving families and rockets streaking through the night sky have reached a worldwide [...]

As online attacks against Chinese feminists intensify, popular social media companies are responding by removing the women -- not the abusers -- from their platforms. The feminists' social media accounts [...]

Byline: Rachel Lerman SAN FRANCISCO - Apple denied Parler's application to get back on its App Store, dealing a major blow to the right-leaning social media network that reappeared online [...]

Byline: Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY What's popular on Facebook? Far-right news and information. What's even more popular? Far-right falsehoods. Those are the findings of a new study out Wednesday from [...]

For Print Use Only. This editorial appears in The Washington Post. - - - 'The Complete List of Trump's Twitter Insults (2015-2021),' reads the headline of a New York Times [...]

Byline: Zephyr Teachout In the middle of the anti-Black, anti-Semitic, anti-democratic violent insurrection last week, Facebook and Twitter suspended President Trump. The emergency context and the immediate threat Trump posed [...]

Byline: Jay Greene and Rachel Lerman SEATTLE - A hate-filled rant on Parler about a Michelle Obama video that criticized Donald Trump's record as president - repeatedly referring to the [...]

Byline: Travis M. Andrews What happens when the center of gravity disappears? Twitter is made of various small galaxies, from film Twitter to Black Twitter to NBA Twitter. One of [...]

Byline: Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell, Razzan Nakhlawi and Harrison Smith WASHINGTON - Men wearing camouflage shirts began building a makeshift defensive camp outside the Capitol Wednesday afternoon. They moved barricades [...]

Fringe movements will persist long after Election Day. Here's how to help. Increasingly, friends, colleagues and readers share the same story with me: Online, somebody they know and love has [...]

Byline: Samantha Power For Print Use Only. As a reporter years ago in Bosnia, I witnessed malicious actors spreading lies on TV that stoked fear and fomented mass violence. In [...]

Joe Biden's campaign rejected assertions made in a published report that were based on unverified material from Trump allies. Facebook and Twitter found the story dubious enough to limit access [...]

Byline: Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY Less than a week after the far-right group the Proud Boys were mentioned at the presidential debate, the group's name is being taken over [...]

Companies involved in a deal to resolve TikTok's future publicly clashed over the arrangement, while President Trump threatened to block any deal that left the service in Chinese hands. WASHINGTON [...]

In a lawsuit filed in New Jersey, a former member of the well-known Shanghai Quartet said he had been dumped after a remark he made on social media was misinterpreted [...]

Just after the 2016 presidential election in the United States, Joanne Li realized the app that connected her to fellow Chinese immigrants had disconnected her from reality. Everything she saw [...]

Byline: Jacob Silverman Interviewed by Laura Ingraham on Fox News recently, President Donald Trump cited a false statistic that only 6 percent of covid-19 deaths were due to the disease [...]

Byline: Ann Scott Tyson Staff writer Abstract: President Trump's executive order seeks to ban the messaging app WeChat. What is it -- and why would restrictions matter? President Donald Trump's [...]

The French call it la rentrée -- the ramp-up period after summer holidays end, when school starts and that buzzy September energy hits the air. To call this season different [...]

Less than four months after announcing he was joining the video app, Mr. Mayer said he was leaving. TikTok has been under pressure from the Trump administration. SAN FRANCISCO -- [...]

Right-wing influencers are dominating the political discussion on Facebook, raising questions about whether it will translate into electoral success in November. Listen, liberals. If you don't think Donald Trump can [...]

Byline: Rachel Lerman TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer resigned Wednesday amid an impending ban imposed by the Trump administration that would restrict the video app in the United States beginning in [...]

Byline: Colby Itkowitz Like many of his colleagues, Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., tweeted a tribute to John Lewis on Saturday and included a photo of himself with the civil rights [...]

For Print Use Only. This editorial appears in The Washington Post. - - - President Donald Trump has a plan sure to make plenty of teenagers very unhappy: ban the [...]

Byline: Ashley Parker and Toluse Olorunnipa President Donald Trump's tweet landed at 7:39 a.m. Sunday morning, and senior White House advisers say they immediately realized they had a problem. The [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Snap's decision to limit President Donald Trump's reach could hamper his reelection campaign's strategy to reach young voters online. The Snapchat parent company announced yesterday that it [...]

The social media company's decision follows Twitter's moves to label Mr. Trump's posts inaccurate or as inciting violence. WASHINGTON -- Snap said on Wednesday that it had stopped promoting the [...]

We analyzed the president's Twitter feed for a week. A third of his posts contained falsehoods or murky accusations, underscoring the challenge to Twitter's chief, Jack Dorsey, of policing him. [...]

Byline: John Wagner The widower of a former congressional staff member for Joe Scarborough has asked Twitter chief executive officer Jack Dorsey to delete tweets by President Donald Trump furthering [...]

Byline: Cat Zakrzewski Social networks haven't done enough to prevent manipulation of voters on their platforms in 2020, according to an overwhelming majority of tech experts surveyed by The Washington [...]

Byline: Tony Romm, Isaac Stanley-Becker and Craig Timberg Facebook on Thursday defied public calls to adopt significant new limits on political advertising ahead of the 2020 presidential election, opting instead [...]