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Ofcom has laid out the measures it will require video-sharing platforms to take to better protect users. The VSPs, including TikTok, Snapchat, Vimeo and Twitch, must ensure content related to terrorism, child sexual abuse and racism…

Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella has described the proposed deal to buy TikTok, under pressure from the Trump White House, as "the strangest thing". In August 2020, as President Trump threatened to ban TikTok,…

Netflix will continue to provide age ratings on all its content following a successful trial in collaboration with the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC). The streaming service and the regulator jointly announced they would…

Facebook has removed hundreds of accounts which it says were involved in anti-vax disinformation campaigns operated from Russia. The company said the network of accounts targeted India, Latin America and the US. They attempted…

Facebook's decision to block access to some academics researching political ads and disinformation has been criticised by UK and US politicians. Damian Collins MP accused Facebook of shutting down legitimate research to protect its…

A row has blown up between Facebook and academics over the use of its data for reporting trends on the social network. Members of the Cybersecurity for Democracy team, based at New York University, tweeted they had had…

A former eBay security supervisor has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for cyber-stalking a couple critical of the company. The Massachusetts couple wrote and published an online newsletter that covered eBay and other…

A recent crackdown on LGBT accounts on Tencent's popular WeChat platform has divided Chinese social media. Dozens of such accounts, mostly run by university students, had been deleted on Tuesday night - sparking fears of a…

A social media account for popular Chinese e-commerce app Xiaohongshu has been blocked after it issued a post on the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown. It had posted "Tell me loudly: what's the date…

In a policy shift, Facebook is now removing groups and pages that discourage people from getting vaccines. As social media giants grapple with the anti-vaccine movement, Specialist disinformation reporter Marianna Spring meets the…

Facebook and Google failed to remove online scam adverts after fraud victims reported them, according to consumer watchdog Which? Google had failed to remove 34% of the scam adverts reported to it, compared with 26% at Facebook,…

Facebook has removed a group of China-based hackers it says targeted members of the Uighur community living abroad. It said hackers used malicious websites and apps to infect devices and allow for remote…

The malicious app spreads the BlackRock malware, which steals credentials from 458 services – including Twitter, WhatsApp, Facebook and Amazon. Researchers are warning of a fake version of the popular audio chat app Clubhouse, which…

A previously undocumented password and cookie stealer has been compromising accounts of big guns like Facebook, Apple, Amazon and Google since 2019 and then using them for cybercriminal activity. A malware that until now has gone…

YouTube has removed more than 30,000 misleading Covid-19 vaccination videos in the past five months, it said. A YouTube spokeswoman said the videos contradicted vaccine information from the World Health Organization (WHO) or…

Instagram is adding safety measures designed to protect teenagers from unwanted direct messages from adults. Older users will be able to privately message teenagers who follow them only. And messages will be overlaid with a…

Whether he's showing off astronomically expensive computer gaming hardware or dumpster-diving for the cheapest PC builds possible, Linus Sebastian's videos always strike a chord, and have made him one of the most popular tech…

Facebook “erred on the side of over-enforcement” in removing links to hundreds of non-media organisations in Australia, Nick Clegg has admitted, in a blogpost defending the social media company’s short-lived news ban there. The former UK…

A Welsh YouTube channel has been labelled "racist" and accused of expressing "foul" and "unacceptable" language and ideas. Videos featuring the group have been removed by YouTube, with advertising prevented on others. Voice…

Some of the biggest Call of Duty, Overwatch and Hearthstone esport leagues will be streamed exclusively on YouTube. The deal's seen as a big win for the platform which has found it hard to compete with game streamer, Twitch. It's part of…

Content moderators are being asked to sign forms stating they understand the job could cause post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to reports. The Financial Times and The Verge reported moderators for Facebook and YouTube, hired…

Facebook has created a chatbot to help its own employees answer tricky questions from friends and family over the holiday season. The Liam bot answers queries about how the social network handles hate speech and disinformation and can even…