Measures essential to protect children from 'predatory algorithm', says Australian govt

Set to follow PG-13 rating by Motion Picture Association of America

Also announces a delay until Jan 20 in enforcing law that would otherwise ban the app

Not all phases necessarily have to be life-changing events.

The problem that comes with these rigid labels is that not everyone can fit under just a single one.

Dislike buttons should be ubiquitous on social media. Here’s why.

Five global tech firms paid Tk 4.6 crore as value added tax (VAT) in August with social media giant facebook depositing the highest amount, which reflects the growing desire of businesses to advert about their product and services in the digital sphere.

Thirty-one Facebook pages have been deactivated for their alleged involvement in spreading rumours on the stock market, according to a disclosure made by Bangladesh Securities and Exchange Commission (BSEC).

Facebook and YouTube often do not respond to Bangladesh’s requests to remove defamatory contents from their platforms, Posts and Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar said today.

Social media giant Facebook has deposited nearly Tk 2.4 crore in value-added tax (VAT) after it got registration for the indirect tax with the National Board of Revenue (NBR).

Twitter says its internal controls have been allowing it to weed out accounts being used for the "promotion of terrorism" earlier rather than responding to government requests to close them down.

Remember those wonder years when our 11-year-old selves would pray to become college-bound adults? When we thought that graduation at 21, employment at 23 and a grand wedding at 25 would be a piece of cake?

Freedom of speech will always be a controversial topic. I will neither shun it nor sing its praise because morality is incredibly subjective.

Admit it; you are secretly jealous of Facebook celebrities hogging all the likes, hearts and 'R U NYC' comments on their posts.

Take one large social media platform. Add in three tablespoons of whimsical art, a piece of unconventional fiction chopped into cubes, a litre of underlying messages that put life into perspective, a generous sprinkling of witty humour and then mix it all up. What do you get? These amazing Facebook pages.

A 10-year-old Finnish boy named Jani gets $10,000 (£7,000) after he found a security flaw in image-sharing social network Instagram.

As the internet becomes dominated by images, Facebook is launching a system which can "read" photos and tell visually impaired people what appears in them.

The government has issued a draft 11-point guideline for social media use of public servants with provisions against propagation of political ideology and provocative statements.

Do you ever "like" something on Facebook? If so, life is about to get a bit more complex.

Twitter has sent warnings to a number of users that their accounts may have been hacked by "state-sponsored actors".