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Despite the ongoing drama surrounding Elon Musk’s proposed takeover of the struggling Silicon Valley-based social media platform, the product development team there have not stopped improving the product. The platform now allows users that find...

Elon Musk has seemingly been an advocate for what we call 'logical libertarianism' for quite some years now. A belief system that leans heavily towards personal freedom and less red tape, but unlike pure libertarians...

Meta Platforms Inc, which owns Facebook, has set up a special operations centre to monitor the conflict in Ukraine, and it launched a feature so users in the country can lock their social media...

Twitter has said it had mistakenly suspended around a dozen accounts that were posting about Russian military movements, and said the action was not due to a coordinated bot campaign or mass reporting of...

Former President Donald J Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, has now launched in Apple's App Store, potentially marking the former president's return to social media after he was banned from several platforms...

Donald Trump's new social media venture, Truth Social, appears set to launch in Apple's App Store later today, according to posts from an executive on a test version viewed by journalists, potentially marking the...

Facebook agreed to pay $90 million to settle a decade-old privacy lawsuit accusing it of tracking users' internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website. A proposed preliminary settlement was filed...

US Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Cynthia Lummis, a Republican, introduced a bill aimed at addressing addiction to social media platforms like Meta Platform's Facebook or Twitter. A Facebook whistleblower, Frances Haugen, made a...

Bluesky, a Twitter Inc-funded project that is seeking to rebuild how social media companies operate, said on Monday Twitter co-founder and former chief executive Jack Dorsey will join the company's board. Bluesky is working to...

For years, investors have wondered about the long-term prospects for Snap and Pinterest, smaller digital advertising players which have had to pick up the ad dollar scraps left over from giant tech rivals. This week,...

Growth and technology stocks rebounded late last week, as traders weighed stellar results from Amazon.com Inc against an unexpectedly strong US employment number that propelled Treasury yields higher. The Nasdaq Composite index, which is heavy...

Twitter Inc has said it will expand a feature it has been testing which allows users to flag misleading content on its social media platform to Brazil, Spain and the Philippines. The company had introduced...