Protesters rallied outside the Scottish Parliament on Monday, 1 April, as the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act came into effect. The act consolidates existing hate crime legislation and creates a new offence of stirring up hatred against pr ...

Muriel Bowser reacted in a now deleted post on X/twitter

App users for social media site, rebranded as X, down by 23% since November 2022 according to Sensor Tower

Exclusive data shared with The Independent has shown that the prime minister was community-noted on twitter 25 times over the past year

Opponents of online sports betting in Florida have lost their latest fight against a Seminole Tribe agreement with the state that permits the gambling

Vast majority of incidents involve text-based threats or written abuse

Reddit’s IPO is worrying for users – big money has a nasty habit of ruining our favourite sites, says digital culture journalist Hussein Kesvani

Founder of Identitarian Movement, Martin Sellner, preaches superiority of European ethnic groups and was banned from twitter in 2020

The initial lawsuit points to the Hunter Biden laptop story, conspiracy theories about Covid-19 originating in a Wuhan lab and Elon Musk’s twitter Files

Michelle Donelan apologised for publicly posting a letter on social media falsely suggesting an academic had expressed sympathy for Hamas, saying she was sorry for the “distraction” caused by the false claim that cost the taxpayer £15,00 ...

Joe Biden took advice from past "presidents" ahead of the State of the Union address on Thursday, 7 March. In a post on X/twitter, the US president said: “You may’ve heard I’ve got a big speech coming up. So, I though ...

Police removed two Just Stop Oil protestors who glued themselves to the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Wednesday, 6 March. Footage posted to the organisation’s X/twitter account shows protestors blocking the entrance to the court, with police ...

Jeremy Hunt says “great budgets can change history” in a new video shared by the treasury ahead of the chancellor’s spring Budget announcement today (6 March). In the footage, released on X, formerly twitter, Mr Hunt also insists that ...

David Cameron has marked 100 days as foreign secretary by featuring in a video social media users described as "embarrassing." Footage shows Lord Cameron walking in front of a camera saying: "My team set me the challenge to ...

Former senior executives of twitter are suing Elon Musk and X Corp., saying they are entitled to a total of more than $128 million in unpaid severance payments

Suit by former employees, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, follows a separate legal complaint by other workers seeking $500m

The final images of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny are tinged with deep despair for many of his compatrios

Technology is so pervasive and invasive that it’s polarizing people, producing feelings of love and loathing for its devices, online services and the would-be visionaries behind them

Rishi Sunak was labelled “cringeworthy” after sharing a video to support the government’s “ban” on mobile phones in schools. The prime minister attempted to deliver his message about devices being distracting in the classroom ...

The mother of murdered teenager Brianna Ghey said the “trans hate” aimed at her daughter when articles about her are posted on social media is “horrendous”. Esther Ghey, 37, said companies such as X have a “moral responsibil ...