Facebook blocks hashtags for #sharpiegate, #stopthesteal election conspiracies
Facebook today began to block select hashtags that were being used to share misinformation related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
Now, searches for the hashtags #sharpiegate are being blocked on the social network....
Steve Bannon’s show pulled off Twitter and YouTube over calls for violence
Former presidential advisor and right-wing pundit Steve Bannon had his show suspended from Twitter and an episode removed by YouTube after calling for violence against FBI director Christopher Wray and the government’s...
TikTok stars got a judge to block Trump’s TikTok ban
TikTok has won another battle in its fight against the Trump administration’s ban of its video-sharing app in the U.S. — or, more accurately in this case, the TikTok community won a battle....
Facebook takes down ‘Stop the Steal 2020’ group organizing around false claims of election...
Facebook has taken down a group that had amassed more than 300,000 members and was sharing misinformation and organizing around false allegations of impropriety during the 2020 elections.
The group, called “Stop the Steal...
What social networks have learned since the 2016 election
On the eve on the 2020 U.S. election, tensions are running high.
The good news? 2020 isn’t 2016. Social networks are way better prepared to handle a wide array of complex, dangerous or otherwise ambiguous...
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is reportedly looking for $2B before its Hong Kong public...
ByteDance, the company behind the social media sensation TikTok, is in talks to raise another $2 billion before the initial public offering of a large chunk of its international businesses on the Hong Kong...
