During the stream, which only lasted for a few moments, A1 appeared to be asking his crew and those around him if they noticed two men approach them with a gun. The music producer's wife and fellow cast member, Lyrica Anderson, took to Instagram herself to tearfully thank her fans …

You've been able to follow hashtags on Instagram since late last year; now, if there's one you're all about, you can let everyone know and give them a convenient way to check it out, right from your profile. You'll be notified if someone tags you in their bio. In case …

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton backed calls for users to delete their Facebook accounts, following revelations the data of 50 million users was harvested by an analytics company to help US President Donald Trump's election campaign. Acton's backing for the #deletefacebook movement is a high … Read More

In a tweet on Tuesday, Acton joined the chorus of voices calling on people to delete the social network. His advice to users to stop using the service is notable because WhatsApp is owned by Facebook. The social network acquired his company for $19 billion in 2014. The “delete Facebook” …

A new study out of the University of Colorado has found that the majority of Twitter users don't know that researchers freely collect and analyze their tweets — even those that have been deleted — in the name of science. The study, in which CU researchers were joined by partners …

Conservative Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson is catching flak on Twitter for making what some are calling "racist" comments about how quickly America's racial makeup is changing. Tucker ran a segment on his show Tuesday lamenting the "bewildering" pace of demographic changes in America, … Read More

Twitter's chief information security officer is leaving the company, sources familiar with the matter have told The Verge. Michael Coates, who joined the company in January 2015, is quitting to start his own company, sources said. Coates announced the move internally about three weeks ago, sources … Read More

On Wednesday afternoon, though, he addressed the problem in a personal Facebook post and laid out some of the solutions he will introduce. He then gave an interview to WIRED in which he discussed the recent crisis, the mistakes Facebook made, and different models for how the company could be … …

The drumbeat to regulate Big Tech began pounding long before the Cambridge Analytica scandal rocked Facebook—six long years ago, the Obama administration pushed a “Privacy Bill of Rights” that, like most other legislative attempts to safeguard your data online, went nowhere. But this time, as they … Read More

The data scientist at the center of Facebook's data controversy says the company knew he passed information to Cambridge Analytica, and called Facebook's side of the story a "fabrication." Those claims came in an email obtained by Bloomberg that University of Cambridge data scientist Aleksandr … Read More