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A teen girl with a small social media following was killed by a man she’d met recently on Instagram, who then posted photos of her corpse online

Dissidents silenced. Security tightened. References scrubbed from the internet. China imposed an information lockdown Tuesday on the 30th anniversary of its bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square, a stark reminder that three decades later, the possibility of democratic change has all but evaporated. Extra checkpoints and street closures greeted tourists who showed up before 5 a.m. to watch...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Saturday for more outside regulation in several areas in which the social media site has run into problems over the past few years: harmful content, election integrity, privacy and data portability. In an opinion piece in The Washington Post, Zuckerberg said governments and regulators rather than private companies like Facebook should be more active in...

One Twitter user named Denise got a taste of her own medicine when she took to the social media site to air her grievances about “The View,” which McCain is a co-host on. In a scathing tweet, the critic said “The View” roundtable is full of ‘delusional mental midgets ricocheting ignorance and lack of emotional regulation.’

Facebook says two of its top executives are leaving the company. Chief Product Officer Chris Cox and Chris Daniels, who heads messaging app WhatsApp, are departing. It isn’t clear what future plans the executives have....
Cox was in charge of Facebook’s apps including its flagship social media site, as well as Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger. He joined 13 years ago and...

Some Facebook users were reporting that the site was down for them on Monday. For those experiencing the outage, opening a page on the social media site revealed an error message reading, “Sorry, something went wrong. We’re working on it and we’ll get it fixed as soon as we can.” Facebook appeared to go down just 1 p.m. ET. Users...

The Jewish refugee settlement agency targeted on social media by the man accused of attacking a Pittsburgh synagogue has received an outpouring of support this week, according to the group’s leaders.

The social media site favored by a Pennsylvania man accused of gunning down 11 people at a synagogue on Saturday was inaccessible Monday, with Gab becoming the latest focal point in a battle over online hate speech and the platforms that host it. In an email Sunday, a GoDaddy spokesman said the company had given Gab 24 hours to find...

A New Jersey basketball coach sent dozens of child pornography images via a popular social media site, authorities say.

Madonna is celebrating her upcoming 60th birthday with a fundraiser for orphans and children in Malawi.

A new Facebook feature that debuts Wednesday will enable members of a group to watch and interact with the same video simultaneously. The tool, called Watch Party and inspired by the social media site’s live feature, enables members of a Facebook group to watch, comment and react to any public video on Facebook at the same time, the company said...

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On the same day Facebook bought ads in U.S. and British newspapers to apologize for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social media site faced new questions about collecting phone numbers and text messages from Android devices. The website Ars Technica reported that users who checked data gathered by Facebook on them found that it had years of contact names, telephone...

As more details emerge about the data privacy scandal surrounding the Trump-connected firm Cambridge Analytica and Facebook, some users are revisiting the concept of leaving the social media site. The hashtag “Delete Facebook” is trending online as Americans vow to take a step back from the social network following reports of misuse of some 50 million profiles. NBC News’ Liz…

Twitter users rallied Sunday in a rare show of unity to express their aversion to a photo of so-called “Brooklyn BBQ.”

Facebook announced Thursday that it won’t be splitting the News Feed into two after all, CNBC reported. The social media site said it was ending testing of the change, which would have pushed publisher content onto a second feed away from posts by family and friends. “People don’t want two separate feeds,” Adam Mosseri, Head of News Feed, said in...