Rockstar temporarily closes online games in support of Black Lives Matter'GTA' and 'Red Dead Online' will be unavailable for two hours later today.By K. Holt, 06.04.2020
Instagram blames anti-spam tech for stopping some Black Lives Matter postsThe influx of posts using #blacklivesmatter 'incorrectly' triggered the block.By K. Bell, 06.01.2020
Fake Black Lives Matter page on Facebook eclipsed the real thingIt suggests Facebook still has work to do on verifying pages.By J. Fingas, 04.09.2018
Russia-linked Facebook ads sought to exploit US social divisionsThey support claims this was an official Russian influence campaign.By J. Fingas, 09.25.2017
NYPD filmed hundreds of BLM and Occupy protests without approvalIt was technically legal, but it violated department transparency rules.By J. Fingas, 03.22.2017
Sammus is somewhere between nerdcore and afrofuturism'For black folks, we're fighting to be seen as nerds and geeks.'By J. Conditt, 01.20.2017
Black Lives Matter site faced over 100 attacks in half a yearMost of them came from one group trying to silence protests.By J. Fingas, 12.14.2016
Twitter says no to law enforcement protest policing toolMedia Sonar was used to track protestors by hashtag and keywords.By T. Seppala, 12.10.2016
Twitter in 2016 was a pretty depressing place to beThe top 10 conversations were mainly around death and politics, but at least Leo won an Oscar.By S. Dent, 12.06.2016
Activist @Deray Mckesson is running for mayor of BaltimoreFrom Twitter trending topic to mayoral candidate.By R. Lawler, 02.03.2016