Cyber & Internet

The company “draws a distinction between the political and military factions” of certain organizations, a spokesperon says.

More than 350 accounts and pages with about 1.4 million followers were taken down in purge of "coordinated inauthentic behavior" by Saudi-affiliated users. Facebook says operation used fake accounts with pages designed to look like local news outlets, with more than $100,000 spent on advertisements.

Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority says insurance and finance sector was hit the hardest by cyberattacks this year, followed by data management and healthcare, communications and education, and the internet sector. PPA can fine, revoke the license of companies that fail to report major data breaches.

Social media giant cites alleged harassment of people of the Baha'i faith by the Farsi-language accounts of the state-run IRNA, Mehr, and Young Journalists Club. Affected agencies speculate that the move is linked to the growing tensions between Iran and the West in the Persian Gulf.

“Twitter has a responsibility to stop the spread of terrorism on its site,” lawmakers argue in a letter to San Francisco-based social media giant’s CEO Jack Dorsey. Twitter has previously blocked accounts by Hezbollah and Islamic State.

"It’s our responsibility to prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence," video-sharing giant states.

A song posted on Facebook by two British-Israeli brothers in protest against home-rental company Airbnb's contentious decision to remove listings in Israeli...

Facebook has purged 82 pages, accounts and groups tied to an Iranian effort to exploit its social network and Instagram...