May 4, 2018 Twitter urges users to change their passwords after discovering bug Twitter is urging users to change their passwords after discovering a bug in its system that left passwords exposed.
May 2, 2018 Cambridge Analytica shutting down, company says Cambridge Analytica, the marketing research company at the heart of the Facebook data breach, is shutting down, the company said.
May 2, 2018 Why Europe's privacy clampdown may not solve Facebook's data scandal woes Think about your interaction with Facebook, Twitter and Google as a relationship.
April 25, 2018 UK politicians slam Facebook over illegal content A U.K. Parliamentary committee has called foul on what it perceives to be a lack of action by social media companies to take down illegal content.
April 24, 2018 Twitter tightens hate speech criteria to include disability after troll outrage After months of pressure from the mom of a severely disabled child, Twitter has revamped its hate speech reporting criteria to explicitly include tweets attacking people with disabilities.
April 23, 2018 Twitter bans Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its platform Citing alleged ties to the Russian government, Twitter has banned Kaspersky Lab from advertising on its website, though its standard account is still active. Kaspersky has denied the claims.
April 17, 2018 Twitter suffers outage as users around the world experience problems Twitter was offline for many users across the globe early on Tuesday.
April 10, 2018 Bots, not humans, tweet majority of links to popular websites, research says Bots account for two-thirds of tweets that link to popular websites, according to a Pew Research Center report, and have a tendency to share for adult content, sports, and news with particular vigor.
March 26, 2018 Americans less likely to trust Facebook with personal data, poll says Only 41 percent of Americans trust Facebook to obey existing U.S. privacy laws, while 50 percent of Germans fear that the social network is having a negative impact on democracy, according to new surveys.
March 21, 2018 Top 5 ways to annoy your social media friends while on vacation You can hide, but you’ll never totally escape your friends’ vacations.