A shocking Amnesty International survey has revealed the scale of misogynistic and racist abuse directed at female journalists and politicians on Twitter. The crowdsourced study studied over 200,000 tweets and discovered that abusive tweets are sent to women every 30 seconds

Almost 250 pages of internal documents from social media giant Facebook were posted online this Wednesday by a U.K. parliamentary committee. Here are the top five biggest news items from the cache of documents.

Facebook had the relentless Black Friday and Cyber Monday news cycle to hide behind as bad news about its platform and the organizations it works with mounted up. We've covered all the latest Facebook bad news here, so you can keep up to date with the embattled social media site

A Tanzanian government official has announced on YouTube that he is forming a squad that will use social media to identify gay people and LGBT activists so they can be arrested. What responsibility should social media sites take when their platforms facilitate real-world harm?

You might have never heard of TikTok, but your kids probably use it every day. It's the video-sharing social media app aimed squarely at teenagers that is proving more popular than Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. We explain everything about it and how it works.

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) in the UK has announced that it's slapping Facebook with a £500,000 ($644,413) fine for “serious breaches of data protection law.” Spare change for Zuckerberg? Or an opening salvo for further penalties to come?

After coming under heavy fire by users and government, Facebook is trying to regain trust in its service. Is flagging false news enough to win us back? We explain how Facebook is bringing attention to false stories and penalising those who knowingly distribute them