Advertiser backlash may pose mortal threat to Elon Musk's X Advertising insiders say their clients are worried about the fallout if they place ads on X.
Federal judge blocks Montana's TikTok ban before it takes effect The law is seen an important test case. More than a dozen other states are weighing similar bans of the wildly popular video-streaming app, which is owned by a Chinese tech company.
Meta warns that China is stepping up its online social media influence operations China has become the third most common source of foreign influence operations, behind Russia and Iran, according to the owner of Facebook and Instagram.
Civilian deaths are being dismissed as 'crisis actors' in Gaza and Israel As graphic images from Gaza flood social media platforms, many people are claiming those images are fake, in the latest iteration of a disturbing trope.
Advertiser exodus grows as Elon Musk's X struggles to calm concerns over antisemitism A advertiser backlash has begun to snowball on X since Elon Musk endorsed an antisemetic post on the site and following a report that highlighted company ads next to pro-Nazi content.
The story behind the Osama bin Laden videos on TikTok A manifesto written by the terrorist leader in 2002 resurfaced on TikTok, but the backlash to the videos was more widespread than the videos themselves.
Why the fight to counter false election claims may be harder in 2024 Experts say a right-wing campaign has cast efforts to combat rumors and conspiracy theories as censorship. As a result, they say, the tools to tamp down on election falsehoods have been scaled back.
At the Supreme Court, 'First Amendment interests all over the place' At issue were cases that test the ability of public officials to block critics from their "personal" social medial pages, a practice that Donald Trump often engaged in when he was president.
Week in Review: crime, off-duty pilot, and mountain snowfall Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with KUOW's Dyer Oxley, Mike Davis, and Monica Nickelsburg.
Is it true or not? Israeli group FakeReporter fact checks while seeking shelter A former Israeli combat soldier runs a nonprofit out of his in-laws' front yard that fact-checks posts on social media about the Israel-Hamas war in real time.