People often turn to social media to complain about shoddy customer service, defective products or mistreatment of employees. But how much impact do such posts on Twitter, Facebook or other platforms have? on.wsj.com
@WSJ2 years ago
Twitter largely banned political ads in November 2019, taking the opposite approach of social-media competitor Facebook at the time on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
A federal appeals court blocked Florida from enforcing the bulk of a new state law that sought to make social-media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook potentially liable for removing political candidates and political content from their sites on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Russian communications watchdog Roskomnadzor said Friday that it is blocking access to Facebook in response to restrictions it said the social-media giant placed on Russian media outlets on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Rohingya refugees sued Facebook parent Meta Platforms for $150 billion, alleging the social-media platform perpetuated the genocide against the Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Facebook commissioned an independent human-rights report investigating content on its platform in India. Now outside groups contributing to the study say the social-media giant is stifling it. on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Australia is considering new data-privacy rules that could make it illegal for social-media companies like Facebook to direct children to harmful content on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen faces an uncertain legal landscape as she speaks publicly about the social-media company’s practices, said attorneys who specialize in federal whistleblower laws on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Facebook came under relentless bipartisan criticism Thursday over Instagram’s impact on teenagers’ mental health during a Senate hearing that could pave the way for legislation to target perceived harms to children from social media on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
From @WSJopinion: Forget breaking up Facebook. We either wake up and relearn some of the basics that social media has destabilized, or get used to seeing the derailment of a career like Simone Biles’s become an everyday event, writes @DanHenninger. on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Donald Trump, sidelined by Twitter and Facebook, has been talking with numerous social media platforms as he seeks a new online megaphone on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld4 years ago
The boycott is the most direct effort yet by a sport against social media companies like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to take action against online abuse. nyti.ms
@WSJ2 years ago
Twitter and Facebook rebuffed subpoenas from families of Sandy Hook school massacre victims, who wanted company data to show how Alex Jones’s false claims about the killings spread on social media on.wsj.com
@WSJ2 years ago
Twitter says it will no longer allow “free promotion of certain social media platforms” on its site, including Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon and Truth Social on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld3 years ago
As Russia has silenced independent news media and banned social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, Telegram has become the largest remaining outlet for unrestricted information. nyti.ms
@WSJ3 years ago
Russia said it would begin restricting access to Facebook for “violating basic rights and freedoms” of Russian citizens, after the U.S. social media platform allegedly moved to block the pages of four Russian media outlets on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
The U.K.’s top competition regulator directed Meta, formerly Facebook, to sell social-media animated-images company Giphy on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
From @WSJopinion: Facebook is a social-media geriatric losing ground to its competitors, writes Robert H. Bork Jr. on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Former President Donald Trump unveiled a new digital-media venture that will create a social network called Truth Social to fight such companies as Facebook and Twitter. He said the venture would go public by merging with a SPAC. on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Mark Zuckerberg said Facebook's work and motives have been mischaracterized in recent media reports and whistleblower testimony on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Facebook said that Apple's recent changes to enhance privacy for users of its mobile operating system are impeding tools that the social-media giant uses to help advertisers measure the effectiveness of their campaigns on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Facebook cut off a New York University research project’s accounts and access to the platform, effectively shutting down a study of the social-media giant’s targeting of political ads on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
With Donald Trump’s return to Facebook in limbo, YouTube, where he has been suspended since January, has emerged as the former president’s best chance to return to social media in the near future on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld4 years ago
The boycott is the most direct effort yet by a sport against social media companies like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to take action against online abuse. nyti.ms
@WSJ2 years ago
Donald Trump’s social-media reach expanded this week with the restoration of his Facebook and Instagram accounts, and he is now seeking a return to YouTube on.wsj.com
@WSJ2 years ago
Shares of Facebook parent Meta rose in premarket trading after founder Mark Zuckerberg said the social-media company would cut more than 11,000 jobs on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld3 years ago
The Canadian government introduced legislation on Tuesday that would require companies like the parents of Google and Facebook to pay the country’s media outlets for allowing links to news content on their platforms. nyti.ms
@nytimesworld3 years ago
The Russian government said it was partially limiting access to Facebook for restricting some pro-Kremlin news media accounts, a move that could make it harder for Russians to share their anger over their country’s invasion of Ukraine. nyti.ms
@BBCWorld3 years ago
Fake social media profiles claiming to be Sikhs used across Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to promote Hindu nationalism and pro-Indian government narratives bbc.in
@WSJ3 years ago
Breaking: Facebook is changing the company's name to Meta to reflect opportunities in the metaverse and beyond its namesake social-media platform on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Settings that could mean the difference between a healthy social-media environment and a toxic one are buried deep in apps like Facebook and Instagram, our columnist writes on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen faces an uncertain legal landscape as she speaks publicly about the social-media company’s practices, said attorneys who specialize in federal whistleblower laws on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld4 years ago
The Hong Kong Alliance, one of the city's best-known activism groups, deleted its website, along with its Facebook, Twitter and other social media accounts, after the police accused it of endangering national security in its posts. nyti.ms
@WSJ4 years ago
Facebook cut off a New York University research project’s accounts and access to the platform, effectively shutting down a study of the social-media giant’s targeting of political ads on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
India ordered Twitter, Facebook and Instagram to block about 100 social media posts criticizing its handling of the Covid-19 surge, sparking public anger on.wsj.com
@WSJ4 years ago
Facebook is blocked in China, but some staff at the social-media giant are concerned over advertisements that Beijing is taking out purporting to show Muslim Uyghurs thriving in China’s Xinjiang region on.wsj.com
@WSJ2 years ago
Heard on the Street: Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent, said it is paring back spending plans and focusing on its social media roots, enthusing investors on.wsj.com
@WSJ2 years ago
Facebook owner Meta must sell social-media animated-images company Giphy, the U.K.’s top competition authority said, affirming an earlier ruling that its 2020 acquisition of the company could limit competition on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Russian police detained thousands of people protesting the war in Ukraine Sunday, as the Kremlin—which has banned Facebook and Twitter and shut down independent media—moved to silence any dissent against the military operations on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Heard on the Street: Listening to Mark Zuckerberg was obviously investors’ first mistake. The second was forgetting that no two social-media companies are alike. on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
"They are trying to kill it.” Human-rights groups contributing to an independent report Facebook commissioned to examine content on its platform in India say the social-media giant is delaying its completion. on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Facebook is trying to hire a big-name Democrat to oversee its U.S. lobbying operations. But the social-media company’s strained relations with the White House and Congress have some Democrats wary of signing on. on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Facebook said some users were having trouble accessing its products on Friday, a disruption that comes after the social-media giant suffered an outage earlier this week on.wsj.com
@WSJ3 years ago
Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen faces an uncertain legal landscape as she speaks publicly about the social-media company’s practices, said attorneys who specialize in federal whistleblower laws on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld4 years ago
The Taliban’s renewed presence on social media has put Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube in a tricky position. nyti.ms
@WSJ4 years ago
President Biden’s attack on Facebook on Friday followed months of mounting private frustration inside his administration over the social-media giant’s handling of vaccine misinformation, according to U.S. officials on.wsj.com
@nytimesworld4 years ago
The boycott is the most direct effort yet by a sport against social media companies like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to take action against online abuse. nyti.ms
@WSJ4 years ago
Facebook is blocked in China, but some staff at the social-media giant are concerned over advertisements that Beijing is taking out purporting to show Muslim Uyghurs thriving in China’s Xinjiang region on.wsj.com