USA

Filmmaker Kevin Smith tweets he has had a 'massive heart attack'

The 47-year-old said that if he hadn't cancelled his second stand-up comedy show of the night, to go to hospital, he would have died

26/02/2018

Netherlands

Dutch foreign minister quits after admitting he lied of meeting Putin

Social media users have been superimposing images of the politician into photos of major historic events that he also didn't attend.

13/02/2018

USA

How did social media react to Trump's State of the Union speech?

The address generated a record-breaking 4.5 million tweets, but what were people talking about?

31/01/2018

USA

Scale of Russian bots promoting Trump on Twitter revealed

Russian bots retweeted Donald Trump almost half a million times in the run-up to the US presidential elections

27/01/2018

Europe News

Brussels tackles fake news

Facebook, Twitter and Google - the internet giants were all at the table in Brussels on Monday to discuss the problem of fake news and online disinformation.

15/01/2018

USA

Google app update lets users match their faces to famous paintings

An update to a free Google app helped drive it to the top of Apple's App Store download chart this weekend.

15/01/2018

World News

Struggling to maintain the UK:US 'special relationship'

Trump's UK visit is slated for early 2018, but the transatlantic relationship has gone downhill steadily since its early beginnings in 2017 where May and Trump shared a handheld walk at the White House.

01/01/2018

World News

Twitterstorm as Trump hits back at May

Donald Trump ignores criticism of his retweeting of material from a far-right British group and tells Theresa May she should focus on militant Islam.

30/11/2017

United Kingdom

Trump retweets British far-right videos targeting Muslims

President shares three videos, one of which is said to be falsely captioned.

29/11/2017

Poland

Tusk says Polish government following "the Kremlin's plan"

Tusk tweets in Polish on personal account that PiS policies mean Europe cannot "sleep peacefully".

19/11/2017

USA

Russian cyber meddling 'deflected scandalous news about Trump' - AP

Russian cyber meddling 'actively distracted attention' away from critical online media about Donald Trump, AP finds.

10/11/2017

USA

Twitter doubles its character limit

Standby for more pearls of wisdom from Twiter users as the character limit doubles

08/11/2017

Spain

Adidas scores own goal in Spain with controversial football shirt

The colours of the shirt have upset Spanish “right wing” nationalists.

07/11/2017

USA

Twitter employee deactivates President Donald Trump’s account

U.S President Donald Trump’s Twiiter account was shut down for 11 minutes by a rogue Twitter employee on their last day in the office.

03/11/2017

USA

Russia, the US election and the tech companies: What we know so far

What Facebook, Twitter and Google have revealed about the extent of Russian meddling in the US election

31/10/2017

World News

Has #MeToo transformed into a turning point for social change?

Has #MeToo transformed from a social campaign to a movement that could create social change and reduce the sexual abuse of women?

30/10/2017

USA

Twitter bans RT and Sputnik from advertising after election row

Technology groups have been under-pressure following accusations they helped Russia interfere in presidential elections.

27/10/2017

USA

Second Republican senator attacks Trump

Democrats rub hands with glee at Republican rebellion as second senator quits over Trump

25/10/2017

USA

Twitter feud between Trump and Corker erupts over tax cuts

U.S. Senator Bob Corker has blasted President Donald Trump after a row between the two Republicans over the tax debate erupted on twitter.

24/10/2017

World News

#MeToo Twitter trend exposes scale of sexual abuse

Harvey Weinstein allegations prompt thousands to share their own stories of abuse

16/10/2017