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Social companies like Facebook and Twitter are starting to take action against hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. But NBC News technology reporter Brandy Zadrozny says it will take more than their current whack-a-mole approach to solve the problem.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is feverishly working to develop a social media force that can compete with President Donald Trump’s well-established digital “army” of meme makers and political influencers who retweet campaign messages in support of him

Twitter has said it will start letting people edit their tweets when there is widespread adoption of face masks in the world, which is still grappling with the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump promoted a video on Twitter Sunday morning showing a man in a golf cart with Trump campaign gear shouting “white power.”

Unilever, whose brands include Dove, Ben & Jerry’s and Hellmann’s, said Friday it will halt advertising on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter in the U.S. at least through Dec. 31.

Facebook says it will flag all “newsworthy” posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from President Donald Trump.

Facebook says it will flag all ‘newsworthy’ posts from politicians that break its rules, including those from President Donald Trump

A conservative social media user whose memes have been repeatedly reposted by President Donald Trump has been kicked off Twitter for repeated copyright violations.

Curt Schilling has retreated from social media after comparing Bubba Wallace’s discovery of a noose in his garage to the controversial incident involving Jussie Smollett. The famed baseball player turned Blaze TV commentator quipped on his now de-activated Twitter account, “So we have @JussieSmollett v 2.0? Where is the media recanting their idiocy?” As some will recall, in Jan. 2019,…

A growing number of people on the far right are falsely claiming that liberal billionaire George Soros orchestrated the protests that have roiled the U.S. They allege without evidence that he’s paid demonstrators and even arranged for piles of bricks to be left near protests

Facebook and Twitter both removed a video on Friday of a “racist baby” posted to President Donald Trump’s social media accounts the previous day, in response to a copyright claim from one of the children’s parents. Twitter labeled the video tweeted by President Donald Trump on Thursday night as “manipulated media” because it attributes to news media a nonexistent...

A doctored viral video share by President Donald Trump on Twitter has been labeled as “manipulated media” by the microblogging site as it looks to clean up disinformation.  The video shows a white toddler chasing a Black child down the street, and the banner says “Terrified todler runs from racist baby.” It is made to look like it is from...

The Justice Department is proposing that Congress roll back legal protections for online platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter that generally could not be held legally responsible for what people post on the sites

Twitter has removed a vast network of accounts that it says is linked to the Chinese government and was pushing false information favorable to the country’s communist rulers. Beijing denied involvement Friday and said the company should instead take down accounts smearing China.

During a press conference Wednesday, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany defended a tweet from President Donald Trump in which the president repeated a bogus, right-wing conspiracy theory that Martin Gugino was an “ANTIFA provocateur.” Gugino, a 75-year-old protester, has been in a serious but stable condition after being pushed to the pavement by police in Buffalo, New York, last...

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling is facing backlash after being accused of making transphobic comments on social media.

Twitter has blocked a Trump campaign video tribute to George Floyd over a copyright claim

Twitter placed a notice on a tweet from Rep. Matt Gaetz after the Florida Republican tweeted about hunting “antifa” on Monday, but the social media platform did not take down the statement.

Protesters gathered outside of the White House on Friday evening to protest the death of George Floyd, causing the Secret Service to issue lockdown orders for the grounds.

President Donald Trump warned that protesters outside the White House Friday night could have been “greeted” with “vicious dogs” and “ominous weapons” if they had breached the fence, and praised the Secret Service for their response to the demonstrations.