Social Media

The Twitter app just got a new trick for threading tweets. Here's everything you need to figure out how to use it now.

The misspelled weblinks on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani's Twitter feed are being exploited by pranksters and crooks.

A simple flaw in Twitter's interface may have let overseas spies unmask the identity of anonymous Twitter users.

A group of teens in a Maryland high school have banded together to defeat Instagram metadata tracking by sharing account access with each other.

Here's how to change your Off-Facebook Activity settings to protect your online privacy.

Facebook seems to be testing a Dark Mode for its Android app, judging by reports from Android users.

Older versions of the TikTok app on both Android and iOS can be hacked by malicious text messages and websites.

Twitter said older versions of its Android app had a serious security flaw that could let miscreants read private messages or even post tweets from your account.

Names and phone numbers of more than 267 million Facebook users were found unprotected online.

Two former Twitter staffers have been charged with spying on Twitter users on behalf of Saudi Arabia.

Facebook said developers were able to retain user data. And now they need to delete it.

Twitter's Tailored Audiences and Partner Audiences advertising systems mistakenly used phone numbers provided for security purposes to sell ads instead.

Portal TV brings Facebook's video chatting product to television sets, while the social network comes out with additional Portal models.

A new report shows that anyone can steal images from private Instagram accounts.

Facebook has some things to say about when — and why — it's tracking you.

Eight states are investigating Facebook, and a similar probe will soon be launched into Google. Here's what you need to know.

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey appeared to have his Twitter account hacked Friday — but it really may not have been hacked at all.

The U.S. attorney general and FBI director want tech companies to provide encryption backdoors. But security experts don't think that's realistic.

DHS sets up WarOnPineapple.com to educate public on how Russia tries to stir up trouble online.

The Federal Trade Commission is making Facebook pay a $5 billion fine for privacy violations, but Facebook has some changes to make too.

If a restaurant isn’t serving food porn, is it even worth going?

The FTC voted to punish Facebook over its handling of user data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Twitter appears to be experiencing an outage. More than 60,000 people have reported issues in the U.S. and Europe.

Under a new policy, tweets from politicians that break Twitter’s content guidelines will be harder to see.