Women who spoke with NBC News say that their complaints of harassment by Lyft drivers have not been taken seriously by the company, leaving them to turn to social media as a last resort.
The subject matter of the podcasts on Earios include motherhood, history, the underbelly of social media and more.
Ryan Lochte won the 200m individual medley on Sunday to close the U.S. Championships, his first meet back from a 14-month suspension over a social media blunder.
Actor and television personality Mario Lopez is facing backlash for saying it’s “dangerous” for parents to support children who identify as transgender.
The father of three and co-host of the entertainment news program "Extra" made the comments during a June appearance on “The Candace Owens Show,” a PragerU YouTube series, but his comments only recently attracted attention on social media.
A model who falsely claimed to be transgender to deflect backlash over past transphobic social media comments now says she takes “full responsibility” for her remarks.
WASHINGTON — A judge admonished Roger Stone on Tuesday for violating a gag order before imposing a court-mandated social media blackout on the political trickster and longtime friend of President Donald Trump.
An exasperated U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson stopped short of having Stone arrested, but instead ordered him to stay off Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
ANAHEIM, Calif. — Two dozen people huddled around Sammie Lewis, 18, as she prepared to belt out her signature catchphrase.
“Here’s the mother frickin’ tea,” Lewis said, punctuating each breath by slamming her yellow acrylic nails into her phone screen while another person recorded the moment.
The crowd, along with thousands of other attendees who have descended on the Anaheim Convention Center, are part of the year's biggest event for youth-focused online content creators, VidCon, which is celebrating its 10th year. The event, which kicked off Wednesday, draws a varied collection of YouTube stars, young fans, digital and legacy media companies, and a variety of companies hoping to capture their attention.
Instagram is failing to clamp down on the abuse of its platform by groups of organized criminals promoting counterfeit luxury products including shoes, handbags, clothes and sunglasses, according to research by analytics firm Ghost Data.
The research, seen exclusively by NBC News, shows that the number of accounts involved in counterfeiting activities linked to brands including Gucci, Chanel, Balenciaga, Louis Vuitton and Dior has almost tripled over the last three years.
The American public holds negative views of social-media giants like Facebook and Twitter, with sizable majorities saying these sites do more to divide the country than unite it and spread falsehoods rather than news, according to results from the latest national NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
What’s more, six-in-10 Americans say they don’t trust Facebook at all to protect their personal information, the poll finds.
Facebook is banning white nationalism and white supremacy from its social network following criticism that it had not done enough to eliminate hate speech on its platform.
Facebook said in a blog post on Wednesday that conversations with academics and civil rights groups convinced the company to expand its policies around hate groups.
She's biting the hand that hydrates her.
Kelleth Cuthbert, the "Fiji Water Girl" model whose red carpet photobombing stole the show at last month's Golden Globes, is now suing the beverage brand.
In a civil complaint filed Thursday in Los Angeles County Superior Court, Cuthbert accused Fiji Water of "the unauthorized use" of her "likeness and identity" in a $12 million global marketing campaign.
Comparing your relationship to other couples, real or fictional, is nothing new, but today’s digital world — which broadcasts only the absolute best highlights of our lives — breeds a certain piercing ache. One that makes us feel subpar, even when we’re posting big-grin pictures and gushy updates just like everyone else.
“I think we compare ourselves to other couples because of the inherent vulnerabilities of being in an intimate relationship. We want to ‘succeed’ in love and we are afraid of crashing and burning,” says Dr. Alexandra Solomon, a licensed clinical psychologist and author of “Loving Bravely.” “Social media turns the volume way up on this tendency.”
A new reigning champion of Instagram has dethroned reality television star and makeup mogul Kylie Jenner for the most-liked Instagram post in the platform's history.
The new title-holder: an egg.
Over the weekend, the image of a single egg posted by an account called @world_record_egg with the display name "Egg Gang," surpassed Jenner's previous record of more than 18 million likes on an image she posted after the birth of her daughter Stormi.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before a joint session of two Senate committees: Judiciary and Commerce. That will mean a total of 44 senators, all of whom are allotted around five minutes each for questions and answers.
We’re here to keep track of what should be a long day of testimony while also providing you with some context, fact checking, and just a bit of levity.
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Edward Snowden’s exclusive, wide-ranging interview with Brian Williams attracted intense attention on social media Wednesday, with Americans divided on whether the fugitive leaker is a patriot or a traitor — but leaning toward the prior.
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Tattoos are in, reading the newspaper in print is out among Americans in 2014.
Those are some of the findings from the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll about habits and activities that have changed over the past 15 years – as well as those that haven't changed.
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What's that flying overhead? It could soon be a Facebook-owned Internet drone.
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