A bold set of policy recommendations compiled by vice industry minister Ikuro Sugawara and young colleagues in their 20s and 30s has set social media alight. The proposals cover a wide range of challenges Japan is facing, including social security, education and the working habits ...
A wave of "computational propaganda," largely driven by Russia, is infecting politics around the world by spreading misinformation designed to manipulate public opinion, researchers said Tuesday. The Oxford University team presented research in Washington on the use of automated programs, or "bots," on social media ...
Alphabet Inc.'s Google will implement more measures to identify and remove terrorist or violent extremist content from its video sharing platform YouTube, the company said in a blog post Sunday. Google said it would take a tougher position on videos containing supremacist or inflammatory religious ...
U.S. President Donald Trump is getting a library, as former American presidents do to commemorate their tenure, but this one is a brief tongue-in-cheek endeavor that features just his tweets. The Trump Presidential Twitter Library opened for business in New York City on Friday, just ...
Line Corp. said Thursday it plans to focus more on artificial intelligence, saying AI-related services will be the next big thing after the smartphone boom. "Because of the smartphone trend, Line was born and we have grown this far. But looking at five or 10 ...
From the incomprehensible "covfefe" to a post labeling fired FBI Director James Comey a "leaker," President Donald Trump's tweets would be preserved as presidential records if a Democratic lawmaker's proposed Covfefe Act becomes law. Rep. Mike Quigley of Illinois introduced on Monday the "Communications Over ...
White House social media director Dan Scavino violated the law when he used an official-looking Twitter account for campaign purposes, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel has concluded, issuing Scavino a letter of admonishment. The agency also warned that if Scavino engages in prohibited political ...
China's cyberspace authorities have ordered internet companies to close 60 popular celebrity gossip social media accounts in the latest in a series of crackdowns on independent media. Website operators from some of China's biggest internet companies including Tencent and Baidu were told in a meeting ...
A photograph of a Canadian man mowing a lawn with a tornado swirling behind him has caused a bit of a storm on social media. Cecilia Wessels snapped the picture of her husband, Theunis, on Friday as the twister passed near their home in Alberta. She ...
The United States has begun asking some would-be visitors applying for visas to provide their identities on social media, among other more vigorous screening methods. A State Department official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said new security procedures had gone into effect on May ...
Researchers Monday urged tougher laws to protect victims of "revenge porn" in Australia after a survey revealed abuses, including shooting and sharing intimate images without permission, on a "mass scale." One in five Australians have fallen prey to abusive behavior, including having intimate photographs taken ...
Thousands of Twitter users are posting positive comments about Tohoku using the hashtag #Tohokudeyokatta ("It was good that it was in Tohoku"), playing on the job-ending gaffe of reconstruction minister Masahiro Imamura. Imamura resigned Wednesday a day after saying "it was good that" the March ...
