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Continue reading the main storyThe leaders of Google, Facebook and Twitter faced sharp questions about misinformation’s role in the attack and the mental health of children who use their products.From left, Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook and Jack Dorsey of Twitter testified remotely on Thursday...

Continue reading the main storyTwitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey testifying before Congress in October.Credit...Pool photo by Greg NashMarch 25, 2021Updated 12:03 p.m. ETThe chief executives of Google, Facebook and Twitter are testifying at the House on Thursday about how disinformation spreads across their plat...

Moscow accused the social network of failing to remove content it deemed illegal. Soon after, a raft of government websites suffered a short outage.

The transition of official White House social media handles is more complicated now than four years ago.

Blurring the distinction between companies and government, official propaganda outlets use President Trump’s ouster from Twitter and Facebook to argue that nobody in the world enjoys free speech.

Human rights groups and activists have spent years urging the companies to do more to remove content that encouraged violence.

As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next?

President Yoweri Museveni accused the company of “arrogance” after it removed fake accounts and pages linked to his re-election campaign.

Tracking what may be planned in the coming days could become even more difficult as the groups take to lesser-known networks and apps that can’t be easily monitored.

The ability of a handful of people to control our public discourse has never been more obvious.

The moves came after critics and even some allies of the social media companies said they had failed to prevent the misinformation that led to chaos on Wednesday.

Some of the industry’s critics are skeptical, however, about a new flexibility to changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Researchers have found that a small group of social media accounts are responsible for the spread of a disproportionate amount of the false posts about voter fraud.

World leaders enjoy exceptions on the social media platforms, but that can change once they no longer hold office.

Content moderation came up the most. Republicans asked more questions. And Mark Zuckerberg was on the hook for more answers.