In March, the US government accused the founder of Moscow-based company Social Design Agency of orchestrating a “persistent foreign malign influence campaign” on behalf of the Kremlin. The propaganda ...

If you’ve spent any time online, you’ve likely encountered a meme — any combination of image, video or text that is remixed, replicated and shared to convey a message. Most are funny. Some are cute ...

In the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, which left 17 dead, WIRED reported that the Alliance for Securing Democracy and RoBhat Labs, data-gathering groups that monitor Twitter activity, ...

This week, former Twitter chief security officer Peiter “Mudge” Zatko filed an explosive whistleblower complaint against the company. The allegations, which Twitter contests, claim the social media ...

Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET News. He was raised in Brooklyn and previously worked on the New York Daily News's social media and breaking news teams. Some of the thousands of posts from ...

President Donald Trump once again is under fire, this time after posting an old, dark meme that’s appeared on literally hundreds of web pages on social media sites like Twitter and Reddit Oddly, it’s ...

Islamist extremist propaganda and white supremacist propaganda not only reflect similar themes and memes in the ways they recruit and incite, but pose the shared ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety is taking some heat on Twitter after posting a meme displaying the supposed capture of a person running away from their state near Uvalde. DPS used the popular ...

The social network continues to roll out tools to take on hoax articles and propaganda ads. But what about the memes? Alfred Ng Senior Reporter / CNET News Alfred Ng was a senior reporter for CNET ...