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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...

The 18-year-old is expected to serve three years in a juvenile facility in return for the plea.

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

Though it has received outsized attention for the last few years, the company has not changed very much. But a recent acquisition spree signals a new course.

The billionaire Mr. Musk has inserted himself into the confounding stock market drama and solidified his role as the ultimate insider outsider.

Companies inspired by the cryptocurrency are creating social networks, storing online content and hosting websites without any central authority.

The latest in a series of additions is seen as an attempt to compete with the growing popularity of outfits like Substack.

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

Jack Dorsey, the chief executive, had reservations about locking the president’s account. But the calls for violence that his tweets provoked were too overwhelming.

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.

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

“I’m going to be very restrained, if I use it at all,” Donald Trump told us in 2016. Something else happened.

The actions followed the barring of President Trump from the service last week, as Twitter has moved to distance itself from violent content.

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.