February 5, 2018 YouTube algorithm could be manipulated by 'bad actors,' used for 'fraudulent content,' senator warns YouTube’s powerful recommendation algorithm may be “optimizing for outrageous, salacious and often fraudulent content” or easily manipulated by “bad actors, including foreign intelligence entities,” a top-ranking Democrat on the Senate’s intelligence committee said.
February 3, 2018 Paul Ryan's challenger bought Twitter followers in past: report A Democratic challenger to House Speaker Paul Ryan has been named among a group of politicians, celebrities, journalists and others busted for paying an obscure company named Devumi to boost their Twitter followers.
February 1, 2018 1.4 million Twitter users engaged with Russian propaganda during election At least 1.4 million people on Twitter interacted with Russian propaganda during the 2016 presidential election—double the number initially identified—according to a company blog post.
January 28, 2018 Facebook, Google, Twitter open up to Congress about Russian misinformation Congress on Thursday published responses by Facebook, Twitter and Google to questions about how Russia used their platforms to spread misinformation amidst the 2016 presidential election.
January 25, 2018 Tech chief compares Facebook to cigarettes, urges government regulation Facebook could be regulated much like Big Tobacco because of social media’s addictive, harmful properties, a prominent tech executive said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
January 24, 2018 Dems Feinstein, Schiff suggest Russian bots pushed for release of controversial memo Top Democrats are calling on Facebook and Twitter to investigate and release information behind potential Russian-linked accounts that are advocating for the release sealed congressional memo.
January 23, 2018 Twitter urged to tighten hate speech criteria to include disability after abortion troll outrage After suspending an account that used a disabled girl's photo to promote abortion, Twitter is now being urged to tighten its hate speech reporting criteria to explicitly include tweets attacking people with disabilities.
January 23, 2018 Twitter sorry for letting account use disabled kid’s pic to tout abortion Disability advocate Natalie Weaver has slammed Twitter for not promptly clamping down on an account that used an image of her severely disabled child in a pro-abortion tweet.
January 22, 2018 #SchumerShutdown was Russian bots' top hashtag, group says As lawmakers in Washington, D.C. were close to a resolution to reopen the government, President Donald Trump got a boost from Russian bots in his quest to blame the shutdown on Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer.
January 19, 2018 Twitter suspends more than 1,000 Russia-linked accounts Twitter announced Friday that it has suspended more than 1,000 new accounts linked to Russian-controlled accounts which shared information meant to interfere with the 2016 presidential election.
