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'Avengers' Porn Searches Went Up 2,912 Percent in Anticipation of 'Endgame'
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Teen hits Apple with $1B lawsuit over facial recognition arrest
The 18-year-old says he was wrongly accused of stealing from Apple stores.
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Internet porn to require ID check
Porn fans will soon have to pass an age identification check to view their favourite adult content online in a bid to stop children from being exposed to the racy material.
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Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp go down across US, Europe, parts of Asia
All Facebook-owned social media platforms went down across parts of the US, Europe and Asia on Sunday, raising concerns about the social network’s stranglehold on billions of users.
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Hundreds of millions of Facebook records exposed on Amazon cloud servers
Researchers found two third-party Facebook app developers had been storing user data on a publicly accessible Amazon Web Services server.
Change your Facebook password right now
Facebook left millions of user passwords readable by its employees for years, the company admitted after a security researcher exposed the lapse.
Facebook Apologizes for Outages, Says It Has Resolved ‘Server Configuration’ Error That Led to Access Problems
Facebook first acknowledged the problems in a tweet Wednesday at 1:49 p.m. ET
Facebook, Instagram suffer outages
Facebook has confirmed it is aware of outages on its platforms including Facebook, Messenger and Instagram.
Google slammed over privacy invasions
The global pressure on Google has intensified, with US politicians attacking the tech titan’s continual collection of data even after users believed they had opted out.
YouTube's copyright claim system abused by extorters
Google has removed a YouTube channel after it was found to be abusing copyright claims to extort money from users.
Happy Birthday, Facebook! A short history of the social network’s biggest gaffes
Facebook turns 15 today and to reflect on how the world has changed since Mark Zuckerberg first dreamt up what would become a scandal-plagued global behemoth, RT looks back at some of its biggest controversies.
Twitter warns that private tweets were public for years
Private tweets sent by users of Twitter's Android app could have been exposed publicly for years.
Tumblr to ban all pornographic content from 17 December
Social networking site Tumblr has announced plans to ban all pornographic content, effective from 17 December.
How Logan Paul went from one of the world’s most famous YouTube stars to universally hated
HE was the world’s most famous YouTube star, but with one stunt, he lost it all. Now Logan Paul has a message for his haters.
Snapchat is no longer the most-used social app among teens
The firm surveyed 8,600 teens with an average age of 16 across 48 states.
Film shows the unlikely people tasked with cleaning up social media and the ugly consequences
BEHIND the Facebook feed you see, are people tasked with the unthinkable. This is the job nobody wants to acknowledge exists.
Facebook is removing hundreds of American accounts spamming political misinformation
The removal included accounts like Right Wing News, which The New York Times reports posted false stories about Christine Blasey Ford following her testimony at the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.
Amazon's IMDB will announce this week a new free video service to compete for TV ad dollars
- Amazon is expected to announce a free, ad-supported video service on Fire TV which will feature libraries of past TV shows and movies, five people who have had talks with the company told CNBC.
- The offering, which is similar to The Roku Channel and Hulu, will let advertisers use Amazon's first-party data and third-party consumer information to target advertising.
