Rob Lever

Twitter covered the Trump tweet with a notice that it contained information that was potentially misleading.

Facebook acknowledged on Monday that some banned ads were resurfacing, and began taking down the messages after a report.

The Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday will give lawmakers a chance to confront social media's top executives a week before the election.

Legal experts point to the fact that it may be difficult to show Google's conduct was illegal under the longstanding "consumer welfare" standard.

A tentative deal unveiled last weekend would make Silicon Valley giant Oracle the technology partner for TikTok.

According to US officials, the deal would establish a new entity called TikTok Global with Oracle managing data security through its cloud servers.

A US government national security panel was reviewing the Oracle bid while Republican lawmakers warned against accepting a deal that keeps TikTok in control.

Details of the deal are unclear, but ByteDance was to place TikTok's global business in a new US-headquartered company with Oracle as a minority shareholder.

Buying TikTok could make Microsoft a hipper, more youth-focused company.

The program will begin with 'local and national publications in Germany, Australia and Brazil' and is set to expand to more countries soon.

Twitter on Tuesday targeted tweets in which the president said that mail-in voting would lead to fraud and a 'rigged election' in November.

US lawmakers critical of Facebook stepped up their calls to revisit its policy, which exempts comments, paid ads on the platform from fact-checking.

The gunman posted a video of the attack on the Twitch livestream gaming platform owned by Amazon