Days after Kemi Adeosun resigned as Nigeria’s finance minister over the forgery of her National Youth Service Youth Corps exemption certificate, a majority of respondents to a recent poll wanted the Nigerian government to prove it is serious about its anti-corruption drive by prosecuting the former minister. In her resignation letter, Adeosun claimed she was…

Twitter is preparing an option for users to go back to its original chronological news feed, responding to complaints about its algorithmic system implemented two years ago.

PART OF The Guardian’s Editorial Of July 25 … Adeosun was never entitled to an exemption because, in the words of a former director-general of the NYSC, Brig-Gen. Maharazu Tsiga (rtd), ‘in as much as you have not served…in as much as you were not mobilised to serve at the time you were supposed to…

Before most of us joined Facebook, they said it’s where one can reconnect with old friends and even trace ‘long lost family’. Truth is… some people’s impulse (on joining Face book) was far from those. Friends… one can always look up -with an eye closed. Someone like me, my first move was to look up…

The European Union on Wednesday proposed steps to force social networks and websites to remove terrorist propaganda within an hour of receiving the order from authorities, or companies like Facebook and Twitter could face massive fines.

Two-thirds of American adults get at least some of their news from social media, even though many are skeptical about the accuracy of that information, a survey showed Monday.

Serena Williams's husband Alexis Ohanian celebrated her return to the US Open final with a touching Twitter tribute interspersing video of her on-court exploits and the first days of their daughter Olympia a year ago. Williams suffered life-threatening complications after the birth on September 1 of last year, requiring four surgeries to deal with blood…

Facebook and Twitter unveiled fresh crackdowns on misinformation campaigns from Russia and Iran as analysts warned of more efforts to manipulate public debate ahead of the November US elections.

Social medium, Twitter has announced that it is ready to suspend accounts that "evaded suspension" in the past. The accounts affected are accounts that were "abusive" in nature and continue to tweet despite the suspension. This week, we are suspending accounts for attempting to evade an account suspension. These accounts were previously suspended for abusive…

Twitter chief Jack Dorsey defended Tuesday his company's decision to allow far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to use the platform to spread his message, saying he hasn't broken user rules.

Twitter has partnered with two academic research groups to find out and improve healthy conversations on its platform. While some think it’s just part of the company's search for social relevance, especially after losing about 1 million users, the company posted $100 million in profit during last week’s earnings. However, none of these numbers can…

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hit back on Monday at threats from US President Donald Trump on Twitter, warning him to "BE CAUTIOUS!" Mimicking Trump's bellicose Twitter threat directed at Iran's leaders the previous day, Zarif wrote: "UNIMPRESSED ... We've been around for millennia & seen fall of empires, incl our own, which lasted…