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China

Images of 'Winnie the Pooh' blocked on Chinese social media

Winnie the Pooh becomes too politically sensitive to be mentioned on Chinese social media.

17/07/2017

World News

Euroviews. Social Media: the Faustian deal

Social media are not one phenomenon. They raise issues for privacy, for freedom of expression, innovation, competition and, for all of these reasons, for democracy.

13/07/2017

United Kingdom

Trump offers support for terminally ill UK baby

President Trump offers to help parents of Baby Charlie Gard after they lose a court battle to take him to the US for treatment

03/07/2017

USA

Woman kills boyfriend in social media stunt

In Minnesota, teenage mum Monalisa Perez shot her boyfriend Pedro Ruiz through a book they both believed would stop the bullet.

29/06/2017

USA

Woman found guilty for encouraging her teen boyfriend's suicide

A 20-year old woman in the US state of Massachusetts has been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her teenage boyfriend’s suicide.

16/06/2017

United Kingdom

#SofaForLondon and fake appeals: Twitter reactions to attack

04/06/2017

USA

Zuckerberg "likes" this: Facebook chief finally gets Harvard degree

26/05/2017

United Kingdom

Manchester attack: social media trolls and fake news

The British Prime Minister Theresa May praised the good work of the emegency services following the Manchester attack, which occurred at the end of an Ariana Grande concert In addition, the hashtag #R

23/05/2017

USA

Facebook and its secret rules over what users can post

Facebook and its internal rule book designed to guide moderators over content reflects increasing pressure on social media giant

22/05/2017

World News

Facebook fined by EU over Whatsapp deal

Facebook has been fined €110 million by European Commission anti-trust regulators during a review of its 2014 purchase of messaging service Whatsapp.

18/05/2017

France

Facebook fined by France's data protection agency

Facebook has been fined 150,000 euros for breaching data protection rules in France.

16/05/2017

Business Series

Royal Jordanian proves trolling fills planes

Social media is the new battleground for airlines chasing passengers and Jordan's national carrier is flying higher than most with witty trolling.

08/05/2017

Business Series

Facebook profit surges, closing in on two billion monthly users

Facebook has reported surging quarterly profit and revenue but its shares dipped due to nervousness about future earnings.

04/05/2017

Thailand

Violent crime videos pile pressure on Facebook

Never before has it been so easy to put pictures and video on the internet.

27/04/2017

Business Series

Could Twitter be enjoying a Trump fuelled turnaround?

Twitter - the social media platform beloved by US president Donald Trump - saw its shares surgeafter it added a lot more users that had been expected.

26/04/2017

Thailand

Thai man kills baby on Facebook Live before taking his own life

Wuttisan Wongtalay filmed himself killing his 11-month-old daughter in Phuket

25/04/2017

World News

Tennis superstar Serena Williams announces pregnancy

Williams revealed on Snapchat she is 20 weeks pregnant, placing her Australian Open win approximately two months into her term

20/04/2017

Turkey

Turkey's youth fighting back

Sulukule is one of Istanbul’s oldest neighbourhoods.

20/04/2017

Spain

Major operation against child porn network culminates in 39 arrests

Spanish police have arrested 39 people as part of an international operation against a major child pornography ring which distributed illicit material via the online messaging application…

19/04/2017

USA

United faces global backlash after dragging passenger from plane

United Airlines may lose hundreds of millions of euros as the airline faces continued backlash after dragging a passenger from an overbooked flight.

11/04/2017