Sept 25 (Reuters) - A group of three investors, including Oracle (ORCL.N), opens new tab and private-equity firm Silver Lake, will take a roughly 50% stake in TikTok U.S., a source familiar with the ...
UpScrolled is a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text, and it aims to remain ‘impartial’ to political agendas. UpScrolled is a platform for sharing photos, videos, and text, and it aims to ...
Section 1. Extension. (a) The enforcement delay specified in section 2(a) of Executive Order 14166 of January 20, 2025 (Application of Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled ...
Social media apps have long been accused of being harmful to children. Now those claims will come before a jury for the first time in a trial kicking off Tuesday in a Los Angeles courtroom. A key ...
The new Pew report also found that two-thirds of teens said they had used an A.I. chatbot. By Catherine Pearson Most American teenagers use YouTube and TikTok daily, according to a report released ...
You don’t need to be a tech mogul to watch “The Audacity,” the new AMC drama that tells the story of a Silicon Valley guru who must navigate his way around a consumer data scandal. But if you want to ...
Sweden will fast-track new legislation to allow police to use electronic surveillance tools against minors after dozens of gang-related bombings in the capital Stockholm in January, the prime minister said on Thursday.
A British Muslim social media star who travels around the country in his ice cream van has thanked police officers trying to control racist and anti-immigration riots by handing out free cones.
An altered video of former U.S. President Donald Trump appearing in court during his fraud case in New York is circulating online, where his facial features appear smoother. Some have shared the clip falsely claiming that it shows a clone or an individual wearing a mask.
A photograph of actor Chris Evans at an airbase in Turkey in 2016 is being shared online, saying it relates to events during the current Israel-Hamas war.
Meta , Alphabet unit Google, Twitter and Microsoft agreed on Thursday to take a tougher line against disinformation under an updated EU code of practice that could hit them with hefty fines if they fail to do so.
The maker of the ultra-popular Stanley cups was sued on Thursday in California state court by four women who say the company misled consumers by failing to disclose that the product contains lead, a toxic substance.
Solikah, an Indonesian housewife living in the fishing village of Teluk, was in tears as she pointed to piles of trash strewn on a beach close to her home of 40 years.
Cristiano Ronaldo has yet again left the competition behind as the five-time Ballon D'Or winner was named Instagram's top earner for the third year in a row.
A video of Northern Ireland police responding to a street disturbance in May has been falsely suggested online to show the start of Tuesday’s anti-immigration violence that followed a knife attack by a Sudanese man in Belfast.
Access to social media platforms has been restricted in Ethiopia, Internet watchdog NetBlocks said, following violent protests sparked by a rift within the country's Orthodox Church.
Britain's communications regulator said on Thursday that online platforms hosting pornographic and other content considered harmful must enforce "highly effective" age restrictions by July 25 to prevent children accessing the material.
German government organisations have until the end of the year to close their Facebook (FB.O) pages after the data protection commissioner found the social network had failed to change its practices to comply with German and European privacy laws.
A video of comedian Benjamin Bankole Bello playing his character “President Obonjo of Lafta Republic” has been shared online as showing the “President of Africa” threatening to invade America over Trump’s prosecution.
Eleven of the world's biggest tech companies, including Amazon.com , Alphabet's Google and Microsoft , will sign an agreement with the British government on Thursday to step up their efforts to tackle online fraud, the interior ministry said.
A Russian court said on Tuesday it has fined U.S. technology giants Google and Facebook Inc (FB.O) over a failure to delete content that Moscow deems illegal, the latest development in an escalating standoff between Russia and Big Tech.
The Guardian did not report that the British Home Office has introduced legislation mandating the recording of phone calls lasting longer than 10 minutes, contrary to online posts, a spokesperson for the newspaper said.
Former Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) executives Kevin Mayer and Thomas Staggs plan to raise $300 million in an initial public offering for a new special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), a person familiar with the matter said on Thursday.
WeChat users will not face civil or criminal penalties even if the United States bans the Chinese-owned messaging app through other actions next week, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
Meta Platforms Inc on Wednesday carried out another round of job cuts, this time hitting engineers and adjacent tech teams, as Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg further moved to streamline the business in a bid to make 2023 a "year of efficiency."
Language learning app Duolingo forecast annual revenue above Wall Street expectations on Thursday, anticipating a stronger adoption of its subscription tier featuring artificial intelligence capabilities.