A study released last week by the Anti-Defamation League revealed that anti-Semitic online slurs have surged in the lead-up to the midterms — and many of the attacks are automated.
The comedian and illustrator joined forces with Lin-Manuel Miranda for Gmorning, Gnight!: Little Pep Talks for Me & You. Sun says he filled the book's 100+ drawings with peace and quiet optimism.
Attorney General Xavier Becerra is calling on the Justice Department to invite Democrats to the Sept. 25 meeting focused on social media and tech companies or risk proving the event's political bent.
When it comes to social media, many Venezuelans choose to self-censor. But for others, social media can be a lifeline. One pharmacist uses Twitter to help people find scarce medicines.
NPR examined Trump's Twitter feed this summer, which shows a snapshot of a president who attacks black public figures who criticize him, while praising black celebrities who support him.
Twitter said it has "permanently suspended" the conspiracy theorist and his InfoWars outlet, citing tweets and videos posted Wednesday that violate Twitter's policy on abusive behavior.
President Trump and the White House had stayed mostly silent in the wake of Paul Manafort's conviction and Michael Cohen's guilty plea, but Wednesday he returned to Twitter and taped a TV interview.
Last week, the company was a notable exception after a wave of other major tech companies banned the conspiracy theorist and his main channels. Jones cannot tweet on his main account for one week.
YouTube, Apple and Facebook banned outlets for the conspiracy theorist this week in what Jones called a "purge." Dorsey said the company wouldn't "succumb and simply react to outside pressure."
The apparently mixed signals of the moment do not really suggest any further evolution in the president's abortion thinking. They suggest a strategy for confirming whomever the president picks.
A young cancer doctor uses social media to skewer what he sees as overblown claims for "precision medicine." That doesn't make him hugely popular at cancer research meetings.
President Trump had blocked critics from his @realDonaldTrump account. But a ruling in May said that his account is "a public forum" and that his followers enjoy First Amendment guarantees.
President Trump is known for his particular style of tweets. NPR's Scott Simon muses about what other famous lines from history might sound like if they'd been composed by Trump.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the president and his aides cannot block critics from seeing his Twitter account simply because they had posted caustic replies to his tweets in the past.
The arrests of two black men at a Philadelphia Starbucks sparked Twitter users to share their stories of how African-Americans are treated in predominantly white spaces.
The former FBI director's favorability ratings dropped a net of 11 percentage points overall since last month, as Trump and conservatives ratcheted up attacks on the ongoing investigation.
President Trump spent much of the weekend on Twitter criticizing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, calling it unnecessary and partisan.
An MIT study tracked 126,000 stories and found that false ones were 70 percent more likely to be retweeted than ones that were true. Twitter is asking outside experts to help it deal with the problem.
The company attributes the strong financial results to an expanding character limit – now 280 characters, rather than the previous 140 – and making it easier to thread a series of Tweets together.
