Social media giant Facebook has deactivated thousands of what it says are fraudulent accounts created in China to influence U.S. politics and bilateral relations, according to a new investigative report by Facebook parent company Meta.
Meta is putting retooled artificial intelligence systems in charge of policing political content on Facebook and Instagram before next year’s elections, changing the way content gets amplified or hidden online.
Calls to cancel Disney's streaming service surged on social media after billionaire Elon Musk singled out Disney CEO Bob Iger as a leader of the advertising boycott against Musk-owned platform X.
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Montana can't enforce a first-in-the-nation law banning the video sharing app TikTok in the state while a legal challenge to the law moves through the courts.
Someone in China created thousands of fake social media accounts designed to appear to be from Americans and used them to spread polarizing political content in an apparent effort to divide the U.S. ahead of next year's elections, Meta said Thursday.
Billionaire Elon Musk said Wednesday that advertisers who have halted spending on his social media platform X in response to antisemitic and other hateful material are engaging in "blackmail" and, using a profanity, essentially told them to go away.
An Indiana county judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the state accusing TikTok of deceiving its users about the level of inappropriate content for children on its platform and the security of its consumers' personal information.
Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday wriggled around answering whether she supports banning TikTok, the China-founded social media platform whose popularity has skyrocketed while concerns have swelled.
The leaders of Facebook, TikTok and X will testify at a congressional hearing in January on digital danger to children, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced on Wednesday.
An entire county school system in coal-producing West Virginia is going solar, representing what a developer and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin's office touted on Wednesday as the biggest-ever single demonstration of sun-powered renewable electricity in Appalachian public schools.
General Motors is looking to change the direction of its Cruise robot taxi subsidiary before the company goes off a cliff.
The feminist blog site Jezebel has found a home after it was shuttered by its parent company this month.
Michigan is joining an effort to curb deceptive uses of artificial intelligence and manipulated media through state-level policies as Congress and the Federal Elections Commission continue to debate more sweeping regulations ahead of the 2024 elections.
Computer-generated writers ... writing computer-generated stories?
Nearly 4,000 car dealerships signed an open letter to President Biden urging him to delay the timeline for proposed emissions standards that would force two-thirds of new vehicles sold by 2032 to be electric.
A ransomware attack has prompted a healthcare chain that operates 30 hospitals in six states to divert patients from at least some of its emergency rooms to other hospitals, while putting certain elective procedures on pause, the company announced.
Senate lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have drawn up legislation requiring the U.S. Department of Education to complete a study on the effects of cellphone use in K-12 classrooms on students' mental health and academic performance.
