Social media makes it easier to know if your loved ones are safe, but it can also normalize violence and hasten its spread. Continue reading →

Facebook Inc is working to develop a voice assistant to rival the likes of Amazon.com Inc’s Alexa, Apple Inc’s Siri and Alphabet Inc’s Google Assistant. Continue reading →

Shane Koyczan is an award-winning poet who was born in Yellowknife, NWT, but grew up in Penticton. Continue reading →

Under the draft rules, tech companies would not be allowed to use “nudge techniques” that encourage children to keep using a site. Continue reading →

Mark Zuckerberg’s compensation for security was revealed in a regulatory filing. Continue reading →

One expert compared removing white nationalist content from Facebook to a game of whack-a-mole. Continue reading →

Facebook says it will use artificial intelligence to help find profiles of people who have died so their friends and family members won’t get, for instance, painful reminders about their birthdays. Continue reading →

Is banning certain users on social media actually going to combat hate speech? Continue reading →

Privacy Commissioner John Edwards has been critical of Facebook’s response to a gunman using the platform to livestream some of the slaughter of 50 worshippers at two mosques. Continue reading →

The company announced in late March that it would ban “praise, support and representation” of white nationalism and separatism. Continue reading →