Using popular social media sites, encrypted chats, legitimate payment and shipping services, dealers moved into the light. Social platforms say they are constantly working to address the issue ...

Social media platforms should be afforded similar rights under property law. A win under the Takings Clause would mean that the government cannot require social media platforms to host all content ...

The social media platform X - previously known as Twitter before Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of the platform - started experiencing outages on a small scale on since May 22. According to a ...

Social media platforms such as Facebook, TikTok and Twitter say they're taking steps to prevent the spread of misinformation about voting and elections ahead of next month's midterms.

Does the First Amendment bar government officials from browbeating social media platforms? In this companion essay to Floyd Abrams: Speaking Freely, attorney Jameel Jaffer explores a pressing ...

The social media industry’s tepid response this week to the conspiracy theories floating wildly on their platforms about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was part of a ...

Based on Pew Research Center survey data, Spokeo identified the fastest-growing social media platforms in the U.S. and explored the factors driving that expansion.

The social media platforms that journalists use most often for work often vary depending on the type of news organization they work for. For example, journalists who work for organizations that ...

A Brazilian judge ordered on Friday the "immediate suspension" of social media platform X in the country, after a court-imposed deadline expired for the company to identify a legal representative ...

GBH digital strategist Zack Waldman joined GBH’s Morning Edition co-host Paris Alston to discuss what social media platforms are and aren’t doing to combat misinformation. This transcript has ...

Update (12/18/22) - Twitter Support's Tweet and the Help Center article about this new "promotion of alternative social platforms policy" have been removed. Additionally, Elon Musk has said ...

Social media companies' main asset, their users, is a very volatile one. We don't need to go far back in time to find platforms that, seemingly overnight, lost their appeal and disappeared into ...