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An online bond hearing for a Florida teen accused of hacking prominent Twitter accounts was interrupted by rap music and pornographic videos from users who apparently disguised their names

A Florida teen arrested Friday was named by authorities as the mastermind of the takeover earlier this month of Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls that scammed people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin

The Tampa, Fla., teen is expected to make his first court appearance Saturday.

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke has been banned from Twitter for breaking the social media platform’s site’s rules

At a press conference on Tuesday, President Donald Trump doubled down on his support of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine after a viral video was removed from social platforms on Monday after it falsely claimed the drug is a successful treatment of the coronavirus.

Donald Trump Jr. has limited access to his Twitter account after sharing a video on the social media platform that violated its Covid-19 misinformation rules, the company confirmed Tuesday.  A Twitter spokesperson called out the president’s son for violating its policy on “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information related to Covid-19.” The post in question, a viral video about Hydroxychloroquine being used to...

With just 100 days until Election Day, President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden aren’t just attacking one another in online ads.

Does the phrase ‘Section 230’ mean anything to you? Well, if you’ve ever used the internet it actually does whether you realize it or not. Here’s what it is and why it matters.

Twitter announced Tuesday that it has begun taking sweeping actions to limit the reach of QAnon content, banning many of the conspiracy theory’s followers because of problems with harassment and misinformation, NBC News reports.

Kanye West took to Twitter on Monday evening with several messages directed toward Kim Kardashian and Kris Jenner.

Twitter says the hack that compromised the accounts of some of its most high-profile users targeted 130 people.

The director of cybersecurity for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Eva Galperin explains the dangers of hackers penetrating high-profile Twitter accounts, and what should be done to prevent future breaches.

White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany said on Thursday that President Donald Trump’s account was not hacked during this week’s Twitter hack.

Cybersecurity professionals broadly agree on a central problem: computers and code have clear fixes, but humans do not. Twitter provided perhaps the most high-profile example of this challenge when its security was breached Wednesday, allowing for scam-filled messages to be sent from some of the most-followed people on the platform, including Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, and…

Unidentified hackers broke into the Twitter accounts of technology moguls, politicians, celebrities and major companies Wednesday in an apparent Bitcoin scam.

Social companies like Facebook and Twitter are starting to take action against hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. But NBC News technology reporter Brandy Zadrozny says it will take more than their current whack-a-mole approach to solve the problem.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is feverishly working to develop a social media force that can compete with President Donald Trump’s well-established digital “army” of meme makers and political influencers who retweet campaign messages in support of him

Twitter has said it will start letting people edit their tweets when there is widespread adoption of face masks in the world, which is still grappling with the coronavirus pandemic.

President Donald Trump promoted a video on Twitter Sunday morning showing a man in a golf cart with Trump campaign gear shouting “white power.”