Facebook, Google, Twitter and other companies are trying to oversee internet content while also avoiding infringing on First Amendment rights. The pendulum has swung recently toward restricting hateful speech that could spawn violence.

Google will shut down its social network, Google+, over a 10 month period after the Wall Street Journal reported that users' data was vulnerable to outside parties.

Here are some of Facebook's most notable missteps and promises around privacy.

Carlo Capella, 50, is sought on charges of accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography.

If you’ve spent any time on Instagram over the last couple of days, chances are 90 per cent of your feed was made up of posts begging you to “turn on post notifications.”

When Olivia Poole moved to San Francisco to start a new life she didn’t realize finding a new group of girlfriends would be the hardest part of the move.

Twitter is experimenting with a new feature that would show tweets out of chronological order on some users’ timelines.

Facebook has lifted a ban that blocked material from Tsu.co, a small rival challenging the world's largest social network's financial dependence on free content shared by its 1.5 billion users.

Facebook has made some changes to its controversial “real names” policy in response to an open letter written by a number of advocacy groups slamming the social network for being discriminatory.

This week, some Facebook users began sharing screenshots of their posts, showing a “Views” count beside the likes and comments.