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French regulators have hit Google and Facebook with fines totalling 210m euros (£175m) over use of cookies. Data privacy watchdog the CNIL said both sites were making it difficult for internet users to refuse the online…

Instagram blocked posts using a hashtag in memory of the victims of a Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iranian security forces two years ago. Families of the 176 victims found posts with the hashtag…

A former TikTok moderator is suing the company, claiming it failed to protect her mental health after "constant" exposure to traumatic video content. Candie Frazier says she reviewed videos that featured "extreme and…

A Moscow court has fined Google 7.2bn roubles ($98m; £73m) for repeated failure to delete content deemed illegal in Russia. Details of the offending content were not specified in the announcement by the court's press service.…

Move over Google, TikTok is the world's new most popular online destination. The viral video app gets more hits than the American search engine, according to Cloudflare, an IT security company. The rankings show…

A top Chinese live-streamer has been handed a 1.34bn yuan ($210m; £160m) fine for tax evasion. Huang Wei, known as Viya, is an internet celebrity with tens of millions of followers. She has used her platform to sell a…

Amazon-owned livestreaming site Twitch has banned an Amazon Prime Video channel after a presenter appeared to accidentally reveal her breast during a live show. The official Spanish-language Prime Video channel was suspended from…

Chiranjeevi lives in Hyderabad, India, with his young family. He is a smiley, glass-half-full kind of guy - naturally positive and full of energy. He's smart, too, and works in an Indian tech company. He's the…

Facebook owner Meta says it has banned seven surveillance companies for targeting users on its platforms. A new report by Meta says about 50,000 users will receive warnings about the "malicious activities". It…

Instagram has apologised for wrongly disabling the account of an artist with the handle @metaverse, for a month. On 2 November, Australian technologist and artist Thea-Mai Baumann had been told she had been "blocked for…

A social media influencer said she had been the victim of cyber-flashing for the past 10 years. Podcaster Jess Davies, from Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, said she had received hundreds of unsolicited obscene images.…

Google has warned app developers that they need to be clear with users about the information they share with Huq, a British firm that sells location data. Google has said apps which fail to comply with their data policy…

Instagram's chief Adam Mosseri has called on US lawmakers to help regulate the platform. He made the remarks on Wednesday during a Senate hearing which examined the harmful impact of social media on the mental health…

Google says an unusual bug involving the Microsoft Teams app stopped some Android users being able to make emergency calls. One US user posted online that he was unable to call 911 for an ambulance for his grandmother,…

A woman with spinal muscular atrophy has been using TikTok to dispel myths about her disability. Shelby Lynch, from Leeds, has more than 400,000 followers on the social media platform. She said: "I am just a regular 24-year-old that's…

Social media giant Weibo has made its Hong Kong stock market debut as Chinese technology firms come under intense pressure at home and abroad. Weibo's shares fell by more than 6% in the first few minutes of trading.…

Following a hypoxic brain injury, Sarah Hill has needed full-time care - but now, virtual reality is opening up new worlds, from deep sea to deep space, all from the comfort of her care home. "I am unable to walk - and…

Far-right groups are using Twitter's new private media policy to target anti-extremism accounts, activists say. The social media giant last week said images or video of private individuals shared without permission…

Crypto-currency exchange BitMart says hackers have stolen about $150m (£113m) worth of tokens from its "hot wallets". Those affected, one storing Ethereum and one Binance Smart Chain tokens, "carry a small percentage of…

Facebook's parent company, Meta, has been ordered to sell Giphy by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority. The company, then known simply as Facebook, bought the Gif-sharing search engine last year for a reported…

Uber is to pay $9m (£6.8m) to settle a complaint over its sexual-assault and harassment reporting in California. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) had told Uber to hand over information about assault and…

Maria says she grew up in a "loving" Catholic family on the east coast of America, with large Sunday dinners a weekly staple. Her parents had a good marriage and she wanted that respect and closeness in her own relationship.…

Twitch has launched a tool that uses machine learning to detect users trying to rejoin chat channels from which they have been banned for abusive behaviour. The gaming-focused livestreaming website said "bad actors"…

According to researchers from abnormal security, phishing emails targeting large TikTok accounts contain fake copyright warnings or offers for account verification. Prime targets, that included social media production studios, influencer…

Spotify is the latest app to experiment with a vertical video feed similar to TikTok's successful design. A new feature in an early test build for iPhone reveals a new Discover tab being added to the app's front page.…

The government has introduced new legislation to protect smart devices in people's homes from being hacked. Recent research from consumer watchdog Which? suggested homes filled with smart devices could be exposed to…

A home network is a collection of gadgets (computers, game consoles, printers, phones, tablets, and wearable’s) that connect to the internet and to one another. There are two ways to connect a home network: A wired network for…

Some teachers are leaving the profession after being labelled paedophiles on TikTok, a union says. A craze on the social media app has seen children share videos of staff with inappropriate hashtags and comments and,…

Plans to roll out end-to-end encryption on Facebook and Instagram have been delayed amid a row over child safety. Meta - as Facebook's parent company is now called - said messaging encryption on the apps would now come in 2023.…

The latest scam involves the social networking site, Facebook. In this scam, the bad guys steal your Facebook login details in order to take over your account and use it for criminal means. The bad guys works by convincing Facebook users…