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Manon , 17, has a Facebook account but to connect with her friends she turns to other social networks like Instagram or Snapchat. "I don't use it to post status updates or personal information," the San Francisco teen says. Manon maintains her Facebook account to be ...
Struggling to stay on top of fake social media posts in a disaster
Shortly after the Kansai region was rattled by a magnitude 6.1 earthquake on June 18, photos of the damage started popping up on social media. Tweets showed a bookstore that looked as if it had been turned upside-down, a damaged electronic sign at a ...
New Hampshire man who tricked young girls into sending nude photos given 25 years in prison
A New Hampshire man who posed online as a modeling agency representative to get sexually explicit photos of young girls was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years in federal prison. Matthew Felton, of Somersworth, pleaded guilty in January to child pornography charges. He used social media ...
Emoji factor: Social media taunts seen altering gangland life in Chicago
Lamanta Reese lived much of his gang life in virtual reality, posting videos on YouTube of him and others taunting rivals. He died at age 19 in the real world, bleeding from his head onto a porch on Chicago's South Side after one of ...
Anime adaptation of 'Young Again in Another World' canceled after offensive tweets by author Mine
Controversy was sparked by discriminatory tweets posted previously by author on China and South Korea.
Views from Tokyo: Do you read newspapers? How do you get your fix of daily news?
As the media continues to struggle to adapt to the digital age, young people open up about how they consume news.
Facebook confirms it shared data with Chinese companies Huawei, Lenovo, OPPO and TCL
Facebook Inc. said Tuesday it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies including Huawei, the world's third largest smartphone maker, which has come under scrutiny from U.S. intelligence agencies on security concerns. The social media company said Huawei, computer maker Lenovo Group ...
Smartphones leading charge to shame troublemakers online
Everyone in Tokyo has a commuting horror story, but sometimes you need to see an example of some really rough behavior on the trains with your own eyes to understand just how bad some people have it. An act of violence recorded on a smartphone ...
'Fake news' laws are a fake solution
In the waning days of Malaysia's recent election campaign, then-opposition leader Mahathir Mohamad was investigated under the country's anti-fake news law. Had he been charged and convicted, he could have spent as much as six years in prison. Instead, Mahathir was elected prime minister with ...
Trump blocking critics on Twitter violates Constitution: U.S. judge
A federal judge in New York on Wednesday ruled that U.S. President Donald Trump may not legally block Twitter users because doing so violates their right to free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald stopped short of ...
Most U.S. Facebook users as active or more since privacy scandal
Most of Facebook's U.S. users have remained loyal to the social network despite revelations that a political consultancy collected information about millions of accounts without owners' permission, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Sunday showed. Facebook has faced pressure from regulators, privacy advocates and shareholders since ...
