Twitter has banned right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe, creator of political gotcha video producer Project Veritas, for violating its “platform manipulation and spam policy,” suggesting he was...
After years of optimizing its products for engagement, no matter the costs, Facebook announced today it will “test” changes to its News Feed focused on reducing...
Starting next month, Facebook will open up academic access to a dataset of 1.3 million political and social issue ads, including those that ran between August...
As part of its effort to steel its platform against threats to the 2020 election, Facebook will try surfacing accurate voting info in a new place...
With just less than a year until U.S. Election Day, Twitter is bringing back its Election Labels, which provide information about political candidates — including which...
Google this month announced that it will no longer allow political affiliation to be used to target ads to users or to promote advertisers’ products or...
Facebook’s latest transparency report is out. The social media giant said the number of government demands for user data increased by 16% to 128,617 demands during...
A small number of prolific U.S. Twitter users create the majority of tweets, and that extends to Twitter discussions around politics, according to a new report...
The reelection campaign will be live-streamed. US president Donald Trump has joined Amazon-owned live-streaming platform Twitch. Twitch is best known as a social video streaming platform...
“If Silicon Valley is going to keep telling itself the story that the only uses of their technology will be the most optimistic, the most hopeful,...