Tag: Social media

November 5, 2020

You may have heard that the United States had a presidential election yesterday, with plenty of implications for the tech world, particularly with social media as one of the battlegrounds in the fight over the results. Meanwhile, major tech-relevant ballot […]

October 21, 2020

With the U.S. presidential elections a mere few weeks away, the security industry is hyper-aware of security vulnerabilities in election infrastructure, cyberattacks against campaign staffers and ongoing disinformation campaigns. Past direct hacking efforts, such as the attack on the Democratic […]

August 4, 2020

Twitter has disclosed it’s facing a potential fine of more than a hundred million dollars as a result of a probe by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) which believes the company violated a 2011 consent order by using data provided […]

December 23, 2019

Facebook on Friday removed what it called a global network of more than 900 accounts, pages, and groups from its platform and Instagram that allegedly used deceptive practices to push pro-Trump narratives to about 55 million users. The network used […]

July 5, 2019

An industry group of internet service providers has branded Firefox browser maker Mozilla an “internet villain” for supporting a DNS security standard. The U.K.’s Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA), the trade group for U.K. internet service providers, nominated the browser […]

November 13, 2018

Facebook has fixed a bug that let any website pull information from a user’s profile — including their ‘likes’ and interests — without that user’s knowledge. That’s the findings from Ron Masas, a security researcher at Imperva, who found that […]

August 15, 2018

After holding out for a few weeks, Twitter joined the chorus of social media and tech giants that have punished conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for questionable content. Twitter suspended Jones from his account on Tuesday after he tweeted out a […]

July 5, 2018

Michael Cohen appears to be distancing himself even further from President Donald Trump. The attorney has removed all mentions of Donald Trump from his Twitter and LinkedIn profiles. As recently as earlier this month, Cohen’s Twitter profile bio described him […]

May 21, 2018

The Internet Research Agency (IRA), a Russia-based operation that has been dubbed as a “troll farm” because of its development of more than 80,000 posts focused on divisive issues in the US, has recently created a new account: Memopolis. This […]

September 28, 2017

The Department of Homeland Security announced Sept. 18 that it was adding social media and other public-facing information to its immigration records. The move has generated alarm among privacy activists and generated a flurry of comments in the normally sleepy […]

March 13, 2017

U.S. Senator Cory Booker from New Jersey isn’t ready to talk about his rumored campaign for presidency in 2020, but he did sit down with Google’s senior counsel on civil and human rights Malika Saada Saar at South by Southwest […]

January 25, 2017

Google+ is forcing its remaining users to say goodbye to the website design and format that many people consider to be the hallmark of the struggling social network. After Google+ was overhauled in late 2015 to focus on communities and […]

January 25, 2017

Local governments across the country are using social media to distribute information to constituents, but challenges remain around the use and funding for those activities, the Public Technology Institute reported. In a “Quick Poll” of local government IT officials on […]

December 2, 2016

Government agencies are using social media to directly engage with broad audiences, and they believe that greater access to the more interesting aspects of government work can reach new audiences and recruit the next-generation workforce. The CIA, NASA and the […]

November 23, 2016

Facebook has reportedly developed a software tool that will help keep certain content away from users’ news feeds in certain geographies, reflecting the company’s apparent willingness to meet Chinese government censorship demands part of the way. The social networking site […]

November 21, 2016

Returning to the controversy over fake news on the social networking site, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said over the weekend that the company was working with fact-checking organizations to put in place third-party verification of the authenticity of news on […]

August 23, 2016

Civil liberties and tech advocacy groups have opposed a move by the Department of Homeland Security to collect social media information from certain categories of visitors to the U.S. “This program would invade individual privacy and imperil freedom of expression […]

August 4, 2016

In May, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper signed Security Executive Agent Directive 5 on the “Collection, Use and Retention of Publicly Available Social Media Information in Personnel Security Background Investigations and Adjudications.” The directive was released the night before […]

June 30, 2016

Longtime Facebook users know better than to get comfy with how the site looks or works, as the service’s decade of longevity has come in part due to constant refreshes—for better and for worse. The same might not be said […]

May 26, 2016

Twitter this week committed to making some long overdue changes designed to free up space in “tweet” messages so users can share more in each post. Usernames mentioned in @ replies and media attachments, such as photos, GIFs, videos and […]