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A new social networking site will operate like Facebook did in the early days – letting students link up without parents or future employers being able to snoop on them.
A row over whether or not a disturbing video of a young child being beaten by an adult should be allowed by Facebook has raised questions about how the internet giant chooses to police its content.
Google’s new social networking project aims to move people away from global leader Facebook, but does it do the job?
Waze has been described as a Facebook for drivers. Channel 4 News Technology Correspondent Benjamin Cohen looks at its potential to revolutionise driving and news coverage.
Exclusive: amid claims that social networking undermines adoption rules, an adoptive mother describes to Channel 4 News the “catastrophic impact” on her daughter of such contact.
An exclusive investigation by Channel 4 News gains unprecedented access to underground networks which help families flee from social services in the UK.
The Government says it will not be seeking further powers to close down social media or telecoms networks following riots across England.
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, scientists are rushing to carry out and publish research which will help us understand how the virus works, and how the disease it causes can be treated.
Convictions for internet “trolls” who target people with abusive or offensive material online increase eight-fold in a decade, official figures reveal.
Facebook pages apparently set up by smugglers are specifically targeting Syrians as part of a new method of recruiting refugees to pay for places on board ships bound for Europe.
Facebook faces criticism for failing to act over an online chat in which one of Lee Rigby’s murderers discussed “killing a soldier” – but it is hardly the only route terrorists use to communicate.
Twitter and Facebook is playing a key role in contributing to the volatile atmosphere in Israel following today’s killings, with everything from cartoons to Kit-Kats being used in the propaganda war.
Islamic State is distributing a document seen by Channel 4 News which explains how to avoid being excluded from social media.
Trying to “friend” victims of crime, uploading inappropriate images of colleagues and making racist comments: hundreds of police officers are investigated for their behaviour on social media.
For the first time in a major Arab-Israeli conflict, the world has access to non-traditional sources of reality such as Twitter – and it means Israel is losing the battle for hearts and minds.