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A Massachusetts couple who sued eBay, Inc. and several of the company's former officials in late July spoke out Tuesday morning, detailing the alleged targeted harassment campaign against them that they said was carried out by the e-commerce giant.

A former Facebook data scientist who became a whistleblower on her way out of the company last September is calling for more transparency and oversight of social media giants while arguing in favor of keeping the controversial Section 230 clause in place.

Former Facebook data scientist turned whistleblower Sophie Zhang, who was fired from the social media giant last year, turned down a $64,000 severance package that would have bought her silence, according to a new report.

GOP senators are demanding answers from President Joe Biden regarding his administration's coordination with social media companies to "flag" Americans' social media comments for "misinformation."

Twitter Inc. on Thursday reported higher revenue growth than Wall Street had expected, as the social media platform rolled out ad targeting improvements and said changes by Apple to keep iPhone user data private had hit ad revenue less than anticipated.

Rep. Jim Jordan, in a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, requested information about the company’s actions to "censor certain speech on its platform at the behest of the Biden administration."

President Biden said Monday that Facebook “isn’t killing people,” after accusing the social media giant last week of allowing misinformation related to coronavirus vaccines appear on the platform.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar urged a change to liability standards on vaccine disinformation as she criticized social media companies for not doing enough to control what people post on their platforms.

Facebook is pushing back against the White House's narrative that the social media platform is "killing people."

No, Elon Musk isn’t going to offer you a free watch or free Bitcoin on Twitter – but scammers will.

She’s not old enough to legally drink alcohol or gamble, but Emma Chamberlain has amassed 10.4 million subscribers on YouTube, 10.3 million followers on TikTok and 13.3 million followers on Instagram.

The Biden administration has been “flagging” content for Facebook to remove.

India and the United States were the top two governments making information requests to Twitter, followed by Japan and France.

Facebook on Wednesday filed a petition asking the Biden administration to remove Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan from pending litigation against the social media giant.