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“Late Night” writer Amber Ruffin recaps what’s happening in pop culture news.

Tweets, meet Fleets. Twitter unveiled its own version on Tuesday of the ephemeral stories found on other platforms with Fleets, which are tweets that disappear after 24 hours and cannot receive likes, retweets or public replies. The only way another Twitter user can reply to a Fleet is privately via direct message. The feature makes it “easier than ever to...

Twitter on Tuesday launched a new feature that enables users to tweet momentary thoughts they may not care to keep on their permanent timeline.

As the CEOs of Twitter and Facebook gave assurances of vigorous action against election disinformation, Republicans at a Senate hearing pounded the social media companies over political bias, business practices and market dominance

Trump has not formally conceded, and the delay is already keeping Biden from receiving high-level intelligence briefings and complicating pandemic planning.

Well after election day, social media companies are still struggling to police content on their platforms.

The Trump administration is throwing the presidential transition into tumult.

Former top Trump aide Steve Bannon’s podcast was permanently suspended by Twitter and had an episode yanked from YouTube after he implied that FBI Director Christopher Wray and leading government infectious-diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci should be beheaded and have their heads put on pikes outside the White House.

Mike Proulx, advertising lecturer at Boston University, talks about new election protections on Twitter, TikTok and Snapchat.

With Election Day looming, Silicon Valley social media companies are desperate to avoid a repeat of the 2016 election when misinformation spread like wildfire.

Republicans escalated charges of anti-conservative bias levied against major tech companies Wednesday in a Senate subcommittee hearing.

The GOP push against Facebook and Twitter has accelerated after Republican senators threatened the CEOs of the social media companies with subpoenas to force them to address accusations of censorship in the closing weeks of the presidential campaign

Twitter has blocked a post from an adviser to President Donald Trump who suggested that masks do not work to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Tensions quickly escalated in what organizers called a free speech rally and protest held Saturday afternoon at San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza.

When Facebook and Twitter moved quickly this week to limit the spread of an unverified political story published by the conservative-leaning New York Post, it led to predictable cries of censorship from the right.

A widespread Twitter outage on Thursday “was caused by a system change initiated earlier then planned, affecting most of our servers,” the company said.

Twitter is imposing tough new rules that restrict candidates from declaring premature victory and tighten its measures against spreading misinformation, calling for political violence and spreading thoughtless commentary in the days leading up to and following the Nov. 3 U.S. election.

A white University of New Hampshire chemistry professor is accused of posing as an immigrant woman of color on Twitter to make racist and sexist comments and attack users who supported racial justice and other progressive causes. The university has not named the professor whom it said was being investigated related to allegations on social media. A spokesperson said that…

A Senate panel has voted to compel testimony from the CEOs of social media giants Facebook, Google and Twitter.

Facebook said Thursday it has removed accounts from three different disinformation campaigns, each with at least loose ties to the Kremlin.