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Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is promising stepped-up efforts to fight criminality on the messaging app.

New Mexico’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against the company behind Snapchat. He says that the site’s design and policies foster the sharing of child sexual abuse material and facilitate child sexual exploitation.

A Brazilian Supreme Court panel has unanimously upheld the decision of one of its justices to block social media platform X nationwide.

Some say Gen Z is hard to understand. But whether you “get it” or not, this election year, they’ve got a role to play.

News4’s Eun Yang spoke with a psychiatrist about the findings and what parents can do.

The viral phrase “very demure, very mindful” has been filed for trademark by a Washington State man named Jefferson Bates.

Paris marked the first edition of the Team USA Creators program, where creators, many of them Olympians, came to Paris to help tell the story of the Olympics on social media.

The 65-year-old Olympian and swimming commentator pulled back the curtain on his relatable social media presence.

Meta said Wednesday that it has taken down about 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria running sexual extortion scams and has removed thousands of Facebook groups and pages that were trying to organize, recruit and train new scammers.

The last time Congress passed a law to protect children on the internet was in 1998 — before Facebook, before the iPhone and long before today’s oldest teenagers were born.

As soon as news broke of the assassination attempt on former President Donald J. Trump, social media platforms were flooded with a mix of true and false details regarding the event. News4’s Erika Gonzalez has more on the rush of misinformation and how to sift through it. 

The United States signed a memorandum with several of the world’s biggest social media companies on Thursday aimed at preventing the use of their platforms for the distribution of synthetic drugs.

Move over hot girl summer, it’s short king season.

The two dogs have more than 2 million followers on social media. News4’s Eun Yang reports. 

Some call it rage bait, but this social media chef says scrambled pancakes started as a fun kitchen experiment.

New York’s governor has signed a bill that would allow parents to block their children from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm, a move to limit feeds critics argue are addictive.

The agreement resolves a more than three-year investigation over claims that Snapchat discriminated against female employees when it came to pay and promotions, the department said in a statement.

The U.S. surgeon general wants to take inspiration from warning labels on drugs and alcohol and apply it to social media. News4’s Aimee Cho reports on proposed warning labels.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Monday called on Congress to require a tobacco-style warning for visitors to social media platforms.

The change was made official by Elon Musk: “Your likes are now private.”