A federal appeals court in Miami held that a judge needn't necessarily recuse herself from a case being argued by a lawyer with whom the judge is merely Facebook "friends."
Bills in both houses of Congress propose amending Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to clarify that it doesn't insulate website operators from liability for violating civil or criminal child-sex-trafficking laws.
The Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania held that an unemployment-benefits board acted appropriately when it relied, in part, on an applicant's Facebook post to determine that the applicant was not entitled to benefits.
A Texas law makes cyberbullying punishable by as much as a year in jail and/or a fine of up to $4,000.
Google is trying to make it more difficult to find and profit from YouTube videos that contain extremist content by placing warnings on those videos and disabling the advertising on them.
A company backed by Mark Cuban is planning to create a social media platform that will anonymize its users' identities using blockchain technology and attempt to cut down on trolls by charging people with bad reputations on the platform more for premium services.
The online publishing platform Medium is giving some of its content writers the option to put their work behind Medium's subscription pay wall and get paid based on the number of "claps" that work gets.
Evolutionary psychologists aren't at all surprised by the popularity of snooping on social media.
Tips for law firm marketers on how to best leverage Instagram.
Advice on how to pen the best automated out-of-office reply.
When you visit someone's home these days, do you use the doorbell or text instead?
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