July 25, 2018 Instagram porn shame as secret sex hashtags reveal hundreds of smutty videos Instagram is awash with hardcore porn videos despite being aimed at children as young as 13, The Sun can reveal.
July 24, 2018 Facebook censorship: Nude paintings by Rubens run afoul of social network The nude paintings of seventeenth-century Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens are known for their Baroque, sensual qualities and have been shown in museums worldwide—but apparently they are too risqué for Facebook.
July 23, 2018 Facebook suspends Crimson Hexagon to investigate potential misuse of data Facebook has suspended another analytics firm that harvested public data from its site pending a full investigation into the company’s practices.
July 20, 2018 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg backtracks on comments about Holocaust deniers Facebook may be locked in a battle against fake news, and now CEO Mark Zuckerberg is backtracking on claims that the social network won’t ban Holocaust deniers.
July 19, 2018 Controversial Amazon surveillance program gets second chance in Orlando The City of Orlando's police department is giving Amazon’s controversial facial recognition software a second chance, despite widespread criticism and privacy concerns by civil rights groups after the first sixth-month trial period ended late last month.
July 18, 2018 Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data was accessed from Russia, UK lawmaker says Facebook data gathered by now-defunct political consultancy Cambridge Analytica was accessed from Russia, a British lawmaker charged.
July 18, 2018 Google is fined $5 billion by EU in Android antitrust case The European Union plans to hit Alphabet Inc.’s Google with a record antitrust fine of €4.34 billion ($5.06 billion) on Wednesday, according to an official familiar with the matter, a decision that could loosen the company’s grip on its biggest growth engine: mobile phones.
July 17, 2018 Facebook allowed underage users, extreme content on site, investigation finds Facebook is ignoring underage users and knowingly permitting extreme content to remain on its platform, a new investigation in the United Kingdom has found.
July 17, 2018 Facebook exec apologizes for censoring Diamond & Silk WASHINGTON – A Facebook executive publicly apologized Tuesday for mistreating Diamond and Silk, the pro-Trump social media personalities.
July 13, 2018 Twitter purge means fewer followers for Trump, Obama, Justin Bieber Twitter’s purge of suspicious accounts Wednesday has resulted in the social media platform's most popular users taking big hits to their number of followers.
