Elon Musk hands down Twitter restrictions amid global outages

The new Twitter restrictions came at the same time as widespread outages for users left them unable to access the platform.

Social media influencer who faked Petaluma kidnapping gets 90 days in jail

A social media influencer has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for concocting a fake story about a Petaluma couple attempting to kidnap her children, prosecutors said.

Meta adds new parental supervision tools for Instagram, but is it enough?

The changes come as social media companies face scrutiny over how they impact teens' mental health. But the new features require teens — and parents — to opt-in, raising questions about its effectiveness.

YouTube star MrBeast claims he declined invite to join Titantic-bound submersible trip

MrBeast posted a screenshot on Twitter of a brief message he claims to have had with another person about an invite to ride on the Titan submersible that has caused controversy.

Costco's sleeper sofa goes viral, igniting debate among shoppers: 'Such a bummer'

A Costco Wholesale sleeper couch has gone viral on TikTok and Instagram as shoppers share their opinions on the new sleeper sofa — both positive and negative.

Stepson of billionaire killed on Titanic sub defends attending Blink-182 concert to 'cope'

Hamish Harding's stepson said he was using Blink-182 to "cope" when the British billionaire and four others were missing on the tourist submersible that vanished two days earlier in a dive to the Titanic wreckage site.

Andrew Tate appears in Romanian court to face rape and human trafficking charges

Tate previously was banned from TikTok, YouTube and Facebook for hate speech, including that women should bear responsibility for getting sexually assaulted.

Twitter employees sue social media company over unpaid bonuses

Employees are suing Twitter over tens of millions of dollars in bonuses they say the social media company failed to pay despite promises it would.

Andrew Tate, brother charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania

Romania's anti-organized crime agency said prosecutors filed the charges against the brothers, who are both British-U.S. dual citizens, along with two Romanian women.

Instagram explains how it ranks the content you see

Instagram recently addressed how the app decides what content you see on your Feed, Stories, Reels and Explore page. It also addressed concerns of people being “shadowbanned."

Amazon's cloud service back to normal after outage that caused some websites to go dark

The company said on its website that the root cause of the issue was tied to a function called AWS Lambda, which lets customers run code for different types of applications.

Bluesky: Jack Dorsey's vision for Twitter 2.0 - Can it succeed?

Bluesky, the internet's hottest members-only spot at the moment, feels a bit like an exclusive club, populated by some Very Online folks, popular Twitter characters, and fed up ex-users of the Elon Musk-owned platform.

Registered sex offender used social media to create, send child porn in 2 states

Prosecutors described Timothy Tyler, 44, as someone who online, “encouraged other predators to abuse their own children for his sick gratification. In real life, he terrorized and abused children of people close to him."

What is 'chroming'? The deadly social media trend on TikTok

Several people have lost their lives due to “chroming," but yet it is becoming more popular on social media.