Social Media

A new bipartisan proposal in Congress would make social media companies susceptible to lawsuits from attorneys general for harm done to minors. Platforms would also need to disclose more data.

The Identity Theft Resource Center's 2021 annual report shows a 68 percent increase in data compromises compared to 2020. The report also says ransomware may soon supplant phishing as the dominant cyber attack.

One Ohio bill would allow private citizens to sue social media platforms for removing content, while another would only allow the state attorney general to file a lawsuit against a company for violating privacy.

After a poor final financial quarter in 2021, Meta Platforms, once known as simply Facebook, yesterday suffered the biggest one-day plunge in U.S. stock market history. Can Mark Zuckerberg rebound?

Public agencies are planning how to spend federal infrastructure dollars — a process that can require significant amounts of public feedback. Aurigo joins other firms in offering fresh engagement tools.

An Ashland, Ore., woman is suing two social media platforms, saying that her 15-year-old daughter’s struggles with mental health issues stem from dangerous flaws in Instagram and Snapchat’s design.

Red tides, caused by the Karenia brevis organism, occur naturally in the Gulf of Mexico each year. However, the blooms can be intensified by human nutrient pollution along the coast, but social media info can help.

Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of social media network Facebook, is now staring at numerous legal challenges for Facebook's role in spreading hate speech about Muslim minorities in Myanmar.

While Zencity has traditionally given local governments a way to listen to constituents, Civil Space offers tools to open a two-way dialogue between them — pushing Zencity down the continuum of engagement.

Two large tech industry groups want to block the state’s new social media law, which allows users to sue companies if they are blocked or their posts are removed on any social media platform.

CEO Patrick Cozzi, whose Philadelphia-based software company Cesium is positioning itself as a major player in the construction of the “metaverse,” explains what the metaverse is and how it will work.

A University of Massachusetts Amherst professor is collaborating with Gizmodo, the American Civil Liberties Union and other universities to make the Facebook Papers available to the public.

To combat false narratives and foster trust in reliable information, governments can invest in local news, support empathy-building initiatives, and ensure election processes are traceable, a new report says.

Local police chiefs shared a number of observations about technology, transparency and the social responsibility of police departments during a webinar hosted by Veritone and Microsoft early last week.

Facebook, which recently rebranded itself as Meta, is doing away with its facial recognition system and the company will also soon delete the facial scan data of more than a billion users on the platform.

Not knowing how many posts people see on social media overall or where specific types of content get concentrated is keeping researchers in the dark about misinformation.

While more people take aim at Facebook for allegedly not doing enough to stop disinformation and hate, the company has officially rebranded as Meta. The Facebook app will keep its original name, however.

States readying for the 2022 midterms will need to be prepared to push out truthful information to counteract the spread of fears and false narratives, and holdout states should adopt paper ballots.