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Debt collectors have a variety of ways to contact you, and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau added a new way to reach you: social media.

Luis von Ahn, co-founder and CEO of language-learning app Duolingo, shares his business advice.

Several social media apps and internet services including Snapchat, Spotify, Amazon and Google Cloud were reported to be down on Tuesday.

Scientists have discovered that honeybees use social distancing to protect their hive when the colony is under threat from parasites.

More than 60 percent of Republicans said they plan to use former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social media platform, TRUTH Social, according to a new poll.

Social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram try to monitor for content related to the problem, but it is not always clear what to do about it.

Hackers tied to the group Anonymous defaced a private version of the former president’s app, Truth Social, posting images of defecating pigs and explicative-laced rants.

Donald Trump is launching a new social media platform to “stand up to the tyranny of big tech”.

Antisemitism is “rife” across social media, with young people exposed to hateful content via platforms such as TikTok and Instagram, new research says.

With Facebook and Instagram down for some six hours on Monday, social media users turned to more old-school activities.

For kids, developing a healthier relationship with Instagram and other platforms can be tricky.

President Jair Bolsonaro had issued rules forbidding social networks from removing many posts that the sites considered misinformation. On Tuesday, Brazil’s Senate and top court killed the policy.

Conservative states have increasingly targeted the ways that Silicon Valley companies police their platforms.

The new rules in Brazil appear to be the first national policy that restricts how tech companies can control their sites, analysts say.

Virtual retail is changing and becoming more embedded in our day to day online activities.

With renewed attention on officer interactions with people who are suffering from mental health issues, experts and advocates are taking another look at these posts with an eye toward whether they exploit the very victims law enforcement just saved.

In the 1990s, they banned the internet. Now they use it to threaten and cajole the Afghan people, in a sign of how they might use technology to build power.

More than 100 new official or pro-Taliban accounts and pages have surfaced on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter, despite a ban on the group by the sites.

A review of earlier research shows giraffes have the markings of social creatures, including friendships, day care and grandmothers.

Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube pledged to remove anti-Semitic content. New reports show they are falling short of that promise.

Social media bosses should be jailed over the publication of the worst sexual, violent and terror content on their sites, the chief inspector of constabulary says.

The president’s blunt statement capped weeks of frustration in the White House over the spread of vaccine disinformation on Facebook and other platforms.

As COVID-19 cases among unvaccinated populations surge nationwide, the White House is pointing its finger at social media companies.

A man has been arrested over the racist abuse of England players on social media following Sunday’s Euro 2020 final defeat.

Twitter has moved to stamp on racist abuse directed at black England players after the Euro 2020 final but in the face of widespread demand for social media platforms to act, is its approach enough?

QAnon is far from winding down. Federal intelligence officials recently warned that its adherents could commit more violence, like the deadly Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6.

The Communist Party decriminalized homosexuality in 1997, but gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual and other sexual minorities still face discrimination.

Vladimir Putin signed a law Thursday requiring large social media companies that operate in the country to open offices there or face harsh penalties.

Florida will not be allowed to enforce a controversial law that would have enabled individuals to sue big tech companies over censorship, a federal judge ruled. The law — which Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law in May, claiming it would protect free speech — would have allowed individuals to sue social media companies if…

It would fine companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter if they permanently bar candidates for office in the state.

A new study suggests killer whales may socialise with each other based on age and gender.

Trade groups representing Big Tech have sued Florida over a state law governing social media that Gov. Ron DeSantis claims will protect free speech.

Misinformation has flourished on Twitter, TikTok, Facebook and other social media about the violence between Israelis and Palestinians.

Culture, once considered exclusive to humans, turns out to be widespread in nature.

Prince William has backed the boycott of social media this weekend to protest against online abuse.

The boycott, set to begin on Friday, is the most direct effort yet by a sport to pressure social media companies like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to take action against abuse.

A Hong Kong professor has developed an educational program using role-playing robots to help children with autism improve their social skills, part of an initiative adopted by non-profit groups and schools. The program, Robot for Autism Behavioral Intervention (RABI), is designed for people with autism between the ages of 3 and 18 and aims to…

The former children’s commissioner for England has launched legal proceedings on behalf of 3.5 million children under 13 against TikTok.

Ben Perkins built a blacksmith’s forge in his back garden and taught himself the traditional craft.

Amazon has accused Parler, the social network known as a conservative alternative to Twitter, of trying to conceal its ownership amid a legal dispute between Amazon and Parler stemming from the US Capitol riots. Angelo Calfo, an attorney representing Parler, disputed Amazon’s claim and argued that the burden was on Amazon to prove who owns…