Social Media

Twitter says it has begun labeling tweets that include misleading information about COVID-19 vaccines and using a “strike system” to eventually remove accounts that repeatedly violate its rules.

All members of the Oakley Union Elementary School District Board resigned after they were heard making disparaging comments about parents at a virtual board meeting that was being broadcast to the public.

With millions of Texas residents still without power amid frigid temperatures, conservative commentators have falsely claimed that wind turbines and solar energy were primarily to blame.

Santa Clara University administrators are enforcing harsher consequences for violating county COVID-19 orders after an off-campus fraternity party brought dozens of students from the University to gather, many without masks, on Saturday, January 23. 

The Irvine Police Department arrested five people and charged them with conspiracy to participate in illegal street races after the group posted videos on YouTube showing them driving quickly.

Facebook’s quasi-independent oversight board issued its first rulings on Thursday, overturning four out of five decisions by the social network to take down questionable content.

Facebook has reportedly sent out an internal memo about employee safety, warning staff to avoid wearing or carrying company branded items in public.

An investigation has been launched into allegations of involvement by some OPD officers on "social media accounts that contain objectionable or offensive content," the department announced.

One Twitter wag joked about lights flickering on and off at the White House being Donald Trump signaling to his followers in Morse code after Twitter and Facebook squelched the president for inciting rebellion.