Silicon Valley & Technology

US internet service provider Verizon reported severed fiber in Brooklyn, but it was unclear if that was at the core of the outages

In speech at Davos, Von der Leyen notes the 'dangers of social media'

Called Birdwatch, crowdsourcing tool aims to enlist other Twitter users to vet tweets they think contain misinformation

Image shows Trump playing golf in the shadow of a giant drone, with ‘Revenge is certain’ written in Farsi

Amazon kicked the social media app off its web-hosting service on Jan. 11

Move paves way for individual licensing agreements for French publications, some of which have seen revenues drop with rise of internet and declines in print circulation

Facebook indefinitely suspended Trump’s accounts after he was accused of inciting a deadly insurrection on Capitol Hill

The Chinese Embassy's account has not posted any new tweets since January 9

Trump administration postings on official social media pages will be archived 

Palestinians say they can provide digital solutions as COVID-19 encourages more remote employment

Stop pedaling and you sink

New law requires companies to appoint a representative to address content complaints

Parler vanished from the internet when dropped by Amazon Inc.'s hosting arm and other partners for poor moderation

Some European leaders see a third way to reduce fake news, hate speech, disinformation and poisonous personal attacks

Citing free speech, some populist leaders on the continent see move blocking President Trump from opinion platforms as a threat to themselves