Fake accounts, which claim to be of U.S. rabbis, have been posting messages seemingly geared at pitting Jews against African Americans — but why aren’t social media sites stepping in sooner to stop them?

Following the violence toward Hasidic Jews in Jersey City and Monsey, posts spreading hate on social media have spiked — as imposters pose as Hasidic rabbis to spread false and bigoted messages.The I-Team’s Chris Glorioso reports.

A company is locked out of its own social media page after the only person who knew the password died. Lynda Baquero reports.

Facebook says it’s banning “deepfake” videos as it steps up efforts to fight online manipulation. The social network said Monday it’s beefing up its policies to remove the the false but realistic clips created with artificial intelligence. The company said the new rules won’t include parody or satire, or clips edited just to change the order of words. The exceptions...

Lizzo is her own soulmate. She doesn’t need Twitter to make her feel good....

In possibly sad news for her followers, the singer announced on Sunday night that she’ll be taking a break...from Twitter.... The respite is coming as a response to “too many trolls” trying to get her down....

As the star said in her tweet, “Yeah I can’t do...

Hailey Baldwin opened up in a lengthy Instagram post over the weekend about how the hate she receives online affects her, calling social media a “breeding ground for cruelty,” NBC News reports. “I absolutely love connecting with other people, I love finding common interests between me and others, hearing people’s story, I love laughing with others, and I love...

Flashback to 2010: Vine had yet to be released and was subsequently shuttered, the 4.5-by-2.3 inch iPhone 4 fit neatly in the palm of a hand, and internet celebrity Jake Paul was 12 years old. A decade can revolutionize culture, and the 2010s changed the internet in ways that seemed unimaginable at the time, NBC News reports. As 2019 comes to a close, NBC News...

New York’s governor says convicted sex offenders should be required to disclose their social media screen names to prevent them from using apps to exploit children. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that existing laws targeting online predation don’t account for new technology. His proposal, unveiled as part of his State of the State agenda, would require sex offenders to...

Dwyane Wade responded to social media users who criticized the appearance of his 12-year-old son, Zion Malachi Airamis, in a recent family photo. The retired NBA star dismissed what he described as “post-Thanksgiving hate” in a tweet over the weekend. “Stupidity,” Wade wrote, is a part of “this world we live in — so I get it.” “But here’s the...

Amazon has removed Christmas ornaments from its website that depict the Auschwitz concentration camp after complaints on social media, NBC News reported. The Auschwitz Memorial, which preserves the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp in Poland, tweeted images of ornaments and other trinkets featuring the camp on Sunday. Amazon told NBC News in a statement Monday...

Mexican security forces on Sunday killed seven more members of a presumed cartel assault force that rolled into a town near the Texas border and staged an hour-long attack, officials said, putting the overall death toll at 20. The Coahuila state government said in a statement that lawmen aided by helicopters were still chasing remnants of the force that arrived...

A tiny baby born four months early and weighing just 15-ounces has already made a name for herself at the San Diego Blood Bank.

Comedian Pete Davidson put on a show Wednesday in San Francisco—but ticketholders weren’t allowed in unless they signed a non-disclosure agreement with a $1 million penalty if broken.

Two massive explosions 13 hours apart tore through a Texas chemical plant Wednesday, and one left three workers injured. The blasts blew out windows and doors of nearby homes and prompted a mandatory evacuation of a 4-mile radius from the plant in Port Neches in Southeast Texas, about 80 miles east of Houston. Officials say they have no estimate for...

Rapper T.I. says he was joking when he said he goes to the gynecologist with his daughter every year to make sure her hymen is “still intact.” The performer, who received backlash when the comments went viral earlier this month, told Jada Pinkett-Smith on Monday’s episode of “Red Table Talk” that he also apologized to his daughter.

As millennials and baby boomers have been squaring off in a battle of ideals on and off social media, the generation sandwiched between them is simply battling to remain relevant in the political and cultural zeitgeist. Generation X, that collection of grown-up latchkey kids and slackers born from 1965 to 1980 whose name was popularized by a cynical 1991 Douglas...

Doctors warn that filter attributes aren’t realistic to achieve even with surgery.

Scooter Braun doesn’t want any more bad blood with Taylor Swift. The 38-year-old manager expressed his desire to find resolution in an open letter to the artist posted via Instagram on Friday. “@taylorswift,” he began. “Since your public statement last week there have been numerous death threats directed at my family.”

Some students at Englewood High School have allegedly organized what they call “fight week” – a time when they are getting into fights and then posting videos on social media with the sole purpose of getting “likes.”

Micah Tennant, the 10-year-old boy who was shot during a high school football playoff game at the Jersey Shore city of Pleasantville has died, his family said Wednesday.