Social Media

With media bans and treason charges, well-financed conspiracy peddlers are being shut down.

“To platform or to deplatform” is the wrong debate.

This isn’t about regulating Big Tech. It’s about fleecing foreigners for news that Australians no longer want to pay for.

Lisa Davies, the editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, talks to Foreign Policy about Facebook’s decision to block news for its users in Australia.

Beijing has blocked the social app after a brief flowering of open discussion.

If platforms aren’t going to enforce their rules properly, they should go back to Athenian ostracism.

Capitalism is making decisions that democracy should.

Liberal democracies must work to recreate a sense of shared identity online.

Social media’s manufactured hate needs solutions beyond censorship.

The coziness between Washington and Big Tech is over.

Latin American criminal gangs have embraced social media and messaging platforms to spread narco culture and sell drugs.

The social media company’s search for consistent rules has been long, winding, and entirely self-defeating.

Young Cuban Americans have turned the internet into a political battlefield in this must-win swing state, but the Cuban American vote is even more pro-Trump now than in 2016.

Authorities are struggling as protesters break anti-monarchy taboos.

Misogynistic, nationalistic rants get creators rewards—and bans—on social media.

Apps are just the latest frontier in the U.S.-China contest. Washington is signaling to global firms the risks of doing business with Beijing.

The video app has gone viral worldwide—and will set the precedent for how free societies handle China’s social networks.

The social media giant’s security failures could have allowed far more damage.