Social media companies must be subject to a “legal duty of care” to protect the health and well-being of younger users of their sites, a report by MPs has concluded.

It has first-hand experience with ethical concerns in AI.

These before-and-after photos will leave you shocked. 

The National Advisory Council for Online Safety has released its first progress report, outlining the issues facing internet users in Ireland.

Today, on Safer Internet Day, yet another case of online sexual grooming makes it into the headline news. A boy, age 8 is targeted through online gaming by a depraved sexual predator posing as a young girl and lured into sharing naked images via Snapchat.

5 tips to keep your Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and phone secure.

From Facebook to Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp, social media and other online use can cause huge anxiety for parents. Here's how to keep your children safe...

On Thursday, HPE announced a new cybersecurity curriculum and game that teaches young girls about internet safety.

In new tests, Amazon’s system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.

We'll believe it when we see it.

Garda cites ‘data protection’ as it tells users to take down videos featuring registrations.

Irish commission that regulates site requests urgent briefing on platforms merger.

“There’s no doubt that Instagram played a part in Molly’s death.” The words of a father grieving his teenage daughter’s suicide, published today in an interview with the UK’s Sunday Times newspaper, will carry loud and clear all the way to Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, California.

Australian schools strap in for the bizarre and the horrible of social media in 2019.

A university is switching off all its social media channels for a few days as an example to encourage its students to try their own "digital detox".

Facebook today announced changes to the way it handles the removal of content from Facebook Pages that’s in violation of the social network’s Community Standards, as well as when the Page has posted items that are rated false by a third-party fact-checking service.

The behaviour of extreme social media users is like that of drug addicts and problem gamblers, with poor decision making skills and volatile withdrawal symptoms among the most common shared traits.

WhatsApp itself isn’t at the root of misinformation. Political polarisation, ethnic tensions, the rise of instant communications and a growing mistrust of politicians all contribute to the current environment in which fake news has flourished.

Amid ongoing discussions about sexual harassment in the workplace and beyond, here are five findings about how these issues have been discussed on Twitter and other social media outlets in the past year.

Older Americans are disproportionately more likely to share fake news on Facebook, according to a new analysis by researchers at New York and Princeton Universities.