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Pinterest suspends accounts that continuously spread misinformation

Province’s top judge restrains spreading content, especially with reference to the judiciary, on social media

Facebook took down hundreds of Instagram accounts that were hacked and sold for their high-value usernames

International pressure grows to accept the results of November elections won by Suu Kyi

Instagram announced the change by sending a notification banner to users

Apple CEO Tim Cook recently launched an attack on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook over data collection practices

Australia has introduced laws that would force Google to negotiate payments with domestic media outlets

In July, companies including Coca-Cola Co and Starbucks boycotted Facebook for not doing enough to curb hate speech

Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook criticised polarization and misinformation on social media

Trump will remain suspended while the Facebook Oversight Board, a recently created body, reviews the decision

With 400 million users in India, WhatsApp has big plans for the country’s growing digital payments space

Conspiracy theories about coronavirus vaccines and US election proliferated on social media during the pandemic

WhatsApp is delaying an update aimed at increasing business transactions on the platform

WhatsApp clarified concerns of users and privacy activists who questioned the “accept our data grab or get out” move

About 810,000 users globally installed Signal on Sunday

Trump, who had 88.8 million followers on Twitter, has been “de-platformed” over fear of 'inciting further violence'

Many flocked to Twitter for some much-needed catharsis, filling the micro-blogging site with memes of misery

Starting from February 8th WhatsApp will be collecting and sharing user data including location data

The move intents to silence US president for at least next two weeks until presidential transition is completed

Facebook Pages will only show followers and have a dedicated News Feed where users can join conversations

More than 1.4 billion voice and video calls were made on New Year’s Eve 2020 globally

Leathern said in a post that he was “leaving Facebook to work on consumer privacy beyond just ads and social media”

World’s largest social network also plans to expand Facebook Protect-its security program for high-profile accounts

Facebook is under fire from a number of countries for misusing its user data and acquiring other small firms

Google and Facebook compete heavily in internet ad sales, together capturing over half of the market globally

Zuckerberg acknowledged that criticism of Facebook had hurt staff morale

One of the networks was tied back to French military while two others were linked to a well-known Russian troll farm

Big tech’s secret sauce for algorithms has become a growing concern, encouraging bias and amplifying fake news

EU set to present tough new regulations for internet giants to do business

EU’s tough line comes amid growing regulatory scrutiny of tech giants

Firms that fail to meet the obligations may face multimillion-pound fines or be blocked from operating in Britain

Lawsuits are the biggest anti-trust cases in a generation, comparable to the lawsuit against Microsoft Corp in 1998

One of the allegations against Facebook is that it strategically seeks to buy potential rivals

Facebook say global policy change came in response to news that Covid-19 vaccines will soon be rolling out

New York is investigating Facebook for possible antitrust violations and plans to file a lawsuit

Facebook's Libra has been rebranded in an effort to gain regulatory approval by stressing project’s independence

Facebook's independent Oversight Board said it had received 20,000 cases since it opened its doors

Kustomer allows businesses to aggregate customer conversations from multiple channels into a single screen

Britain will impose a new competition regime to prevent tech giants from pushing out smaller firms

Tech giants that break new EU rules aimed at curbing their powers could face fines

Paris notifies Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple about the tax

Personal information of at least 3.3 million Facebook users in Korea was provided to operators without their knowledge

Facebook will be rolling out the Watch together feature, Chat themes, and Vanish mode on its platforms

Facebook is under scrutiny over its policing of abuses, particularly around November’s US presidential election

Republican lawmakers have consistently accused Facebook and Twitter of anti-conservative bias

Phrases like 'shoot them', 'kill them all', 'hang him' and others used multiple times, according to CounterAction

'Stop the Steal' group was adding 1,000 new members every 10 seconds and had grown to 365,000 members in a day

Facebook has come under fire for not developing tools to combat extremist content on its platform

Prospect of stablecoin being used by billions of people has galvanised central banks into putting together rules

Twitter said accounts had been suspended for violating its policy against 'coordination' by posting identical content