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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.

The voluntary efforts of tech companies aren’t enough. The U.S. government needs to regulate social media platforms and make election interference illegal.

Ankara shut an institution founded by religious conservatives and attacks tech companies in order to stop young Turks from accessing a free academic and media environment.

A new spurt of cases after the lifting of social distancing restrictions exposes an undercurrent of hate.

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi has been a key player in the Iranian government’s campaign of repression and censorship.

It isn’t just Trump. All sorts of policymakers are using Twitter to promote their policies and condemn their adversaries.

The doctored Nancy Pelosi video hardly marks the first time the social media giant has faced backlash. Consider Germany in 2015.

Not content to cause political problems, Moscow’s trolls are also undermining public health.

The self-immolation of the Canadian government is rooted in the way it came to power.