In the two years since an Israelis company first tried to thwart a Russian disinformation campaign in Burkina Faso, coups or rebels have removed the governments of five former French colonies,...

The impact of such layoffs would likely be felt immediately by millions of users and would put them at risk of hacks and exposure to offensive material such as child pornography, insiders said.

Researchers proposed a fix to the biased algorithm, but one internal document predicted pushback from “conservative partners.”

After positive covid-19 tests at European warehouses, workers call on the e-commerce giant to close and clean warehouses exposed to the coronavirus and to adopt new rules that encourage employees to...

The pages, which promoted the “Stop the Steal” effort and other misleading messages about voter fraud and the election, were removed over the weekend, while the former top Trump strategist’s account...

The analytics firm was asked to turn over documents to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in December.

Inside the billionaire investor’s journey from Facebook board member to an architect of the new American right

Fliers and hashtags promoting the pro-Trump rally circulated on Facebook and Instagram in the days and weeks beforehand

Filing demonstrates Silicon Valley's animosity toward Trump order.

The social-media platform’s Saturday evening acknowledgment comes after a lengthy internal debate over whether to share data.

Facebook has set an ambitious hiring goal of 30 percent more people of color in leadership by 2025. But current and former Black employees involved in hiring — as well as potential recruits who filed...

Moderators and participants fled the subreddit months ago over complaints that Reddit was too strict on speech.

Facebook is conducting a vast behind-the-scenes study of U.S. users who express doubtfulness about vaccines, a major project that attempts to probe and teach software to understand the medical...

Researchers say the online feedback loop between Trump, high-profile influencers and rank-and-file followers is a danger to the election.

Jan Koum disagreed with Facebook over the popular messaging service’s strategy and Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption.

Amazon acquired primary care provider One Medical, marking a bigger push into healthcare for the tech giant.

Representatives for the FBI, the SEC and the Federal Trade Commission have joined the Department of Justice in its inquiries about the two companies and the sharing of personal information of 71...

Twitter is exploring adding a feature that would let users flag tweets that contain misleading, false, or harmful information, according to two people familiar with the company's thinking.

Twitter plans to provide the full "firehose" of internal data to Elon Musk, after weeks of resisting the billionaire's requests.

The social media giant changed its policies in 2015, but not before apps such as FarmVille and Tinder — and the Obama campaign — took advantage.

The targeting of employees by Musk’s massive Twitter megaphone is a major concern for workers.

In the days before the presidential election, Meta and TikTok have steered millions toward conspiracy theories and extremist content, researchers say.

Twitter Spaces has become a tool for extremists and racists. Employees warned that might happen.

Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said, as anxiety built around Musk’s silence.

The problem of Russian meddling on Google and Facebook is much greater than has been previously revealed.

The campaign to undermine the legitimacy of the 2020 election launched a powerful new generation of online influencers, a Washington Post analysis has found.

The billionaire bought Twitter to revive its business and make it less “woke.” He has achieved only one of those goals.

Employees fear Musk will upend the company’s culture and initiate mass layoffs.

Bailey Richardson, one of Instagram's original 13 employees, says the company has lost its identity.

Confidentiality agreements and shell companies make it nearly impossible for some communities to know, let alone protest or debate, who is using their land, resources and tax dollars.

Denial of Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel is spreading. The untrue narrative seeded on social media from TikTok to Reddit is bleeding into the real world.

Some allies and advisers want the Brazilian president to contest his election loss to Lula. Others want a global fight over free speech.

Facebook said it squashed “a bug.” Researchers say it is hiding crucial information.

QAnon posts began threatening violence in 2018. But it would be 2020 before Facebook and Twitter would make major moves to curb QAnon’s presence on their platforms, allowing it to become the major...

Russians created 1,100 videos on YouTube and 36,000 bots on Twitter. Facebook posts may have reached 126 million users.

Twitter has subpoenaed information about elite Silicon Valley investors Chamath Palihapitiya, David Sacks and Steve Jurvetson, all associates of Elon Musk.

As Facebook's bias is under federal scrutiny, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg points to his philanthropic arm, CZI. But Black employees there say his efforts are hamstrung by race bias and fear of...

If you express interest in buying drugs illicitly, expect a flood of solicitations to be funneled to you.

The offer marks the latest twist in a months-long campaign by Musk to acquire the influential social media platform.

Moderators describe a chaotic workplace where exceptions for lucrative influencers are the norm.

The company’s presentation to Congress was “deeply disappointing,” one senator said. Twitter’s disclosure follows a similar revelation from Facebook

Facebook is paying a landmark settlement of $52 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by content moderators, who review posts depicting murders, suicides and other disturbing acts to keep...

The Post will add 11 technology roles based in San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, D.C.

The influential online community that gave rise to social movements like #BlackLivesMatter is now a "digital diaspora” in search of a new home.

The high-stakes case in the Delaware Chancery Court, will be decided in several months, after a judge largely sided with Twitter's request for a speedy trial.

Across social media, vaccine misinformation targeted toward Christians and other religious groups is reaching sizeable audiences. This area is the hardest for tech companies to police.

A pair of whistleblower complaints filed to the Justice and Treasury departments argue that Facebook broke the law by allowing accounts from sanctioned entities on the platform.

An independent audit of Meta’s handling of online content during the two-week war between Israel and the militant Palestinian group Hamas last year found that the social media giant had denied...

Silicon Valley companies and law enforcement are starting to talk about how to ward off meddling by malicious actors including Russia on social media in the November midterms, an attempt at dialogue...