The porn dilemma facing Twitter
Twitter faces a porn dilemma: introduce age controls and force every user to re-register, or ban porn from the site and monitor as many as 25 million images a day.
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Bus adverts featuring topless models holding a placard saying ‘ride me all day for £3’ are being taken down following a storm of complaints on social media.
Twitter users rally to show their support for JK Rowling after she became a target for online abuse in the wake of the election results.
The Great British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins has left Twitter following death threats after she had been touted as Jeremy Clarkson’s successor to front the Top Gear TV show.
American rapper, Azealia Banks, tells Channel 4 News she would consider running for office as she speaks about the release of her new album Broke with Expensive Taste.
Twitter faces a porn dilemma: introduce age controls and force every user to re-register, or ban porn from the site and monitor as many as 25 million images a day.
Government requests for information on Twitter accounts increase by 40 per cent in the last 6 months of 2014, with Russia sending more than 100 requests.
Twitter chief executive says that the company “sucks at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform, and we’ve sucked at it for years.”
The British Army is to create a new unit for psychological and social media warfare to help Britain “fight in the information age” and control the “narrative” of warfare.
Trains in and out of King’s Cross station are cancelled leading to overcrowding and misery for commuters at Finsbury Park.
Indian police arrest a man suspected of operating the most influential pro-IS Twitter account, following a Channel 4 News investigation.
The most influential pro-Islamic State Twitter account to be followed by foreign jihadis – Shami Witness – is shut down after a Channel 4 News investigation uncovers the identity of the man behind it
Social networks must simplify terms and conditions, to ensure that their users are clear over how their personal data will be collected and used, MPs say.
Social media users in the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, Syria, are among the first to report US air strikes on the city. One told Channel 4 News that the west must consider civilian casualties.
Twitter is investigating after an Islamic State user issued a direct call for the assassination of Twitter employees over the firm’s suspension of IS accounts.
Social media and police tactics have combined to turn the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, into an intractable conflict that shows no sign of going away.