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Facebook is launching a new feature that will let users create petitions and gather mob support in order to call government officials into action. Community Actions is a U.S.-only feature for now.

Facebook wants to put events where your friends are more likely to see them: Stories. The new option to share events to Stories is rolling out today in the U.S., Brazil, and Mexico as part of a test.

LinkedIn's Chinese website appears to have begun requiring new and existing users to link a mobile phone number to their account as part of an effort to comply with internet regulations in China.

Facebook has begun implementing its authorization process for political ads in the UK, requiring advertisers to disclose who paid for those ads. Ads from news publishers are exempted, though.

After sustaining a series of losses since filing its $3 billion IPO earlier last year, Snap has confirmed that the U.S. Justice Department and SEC are conducting a probe on its 2017 public offering.

At a town hall event held at IIT Delhi today, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said the company has been considering adding an edit button to the service. However, certain limitations will be put in place.

In the release note for the latest version of Messenger for iOS, Facebook promises to roll out an upcoming feature that will allow you to unsend a message on the app within 10 minutes of sending it.

In a new change to the site, Twitter has announced that it will now explicitly show if a tweet you reported has been removed by the site's moderators for violating its terms of service.

Facebook's investigation of a massive security breach involving some 50 million accounts reportedly suggests the attacks were perpetrated by a group of spammers masquerading as digital marketers.

Facebook advertisers who want to run political ads in the UK now need to comply with certain transparency rules. Also, the Ad Library will show data on an ad's budget and the number of people reached.

Instagram is rolling out new tools to help curb incidents of bullying on its platform using machine learning that identifies photos with bullying nature. There's also a new kindness camera effect.

In a recent change, Facebook has extended the length of time users must wait for their accounts to be deleted to thirty days in order to give people "more time to make a fully informed choice."

Twitter is gathering public feedback on proposed rules meant to ban dehumanizing language on its platform. The comment period runs until October 9 and Twitter will share the details later this year.

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are said to be leaving Instagram in the coming weeks several years after founding what could arguably be Facebook's most successful acquisition today.

Facebook has selected a total of 115 people to join its community leadership program meant to strengthen various communities on the platform. The community leaders will each receive funding.

After making the algorithmic timeline its default view in 2016, Twitter is now planning to test a more accessible way of being able to return to the reverse chronological display of tweets.

Twitter tested a new feature this week in which it was suggesting specific people to unfollow. The test covered only a limited number of users, though it's not clear if it's rolling out to all.

Following a UN Human Rights Council report which found evidence of human rights abuses in Myanmar, Facebook has banned dozens of accounts and pages, including that of the country's top military chief.

Facebook's latest crackdown on abuse saw 196 pages and 87 accounts closed for violating the company's authenticity policies by spreading misinformation and misleading people in Brazil.

Watch Party allows members of Facebook groups worldwide to jointly watch videos, live or recorded, in real time. The feature is being tested with profiles and will be launched on Pages in the future.

Twitter says the latest move will purge locked accounts from your follower count starting this week as part of the company's continued efforts to keep those numbers "meaningful and accurate."

Timehop, a service that shows users their past social media posts, confessed to a data breach that compromised the names, some email addresses, and 4.7 million phone numbers of its users.

Tired of posting repetitive pictures on Tinder? The firm now wants you to post two-second looping videos. The feature is rolling out on iOS in parts of Western Europe, Asia and North America.

Twitter's acquisition of the San Francisco-based technology company is intended to address challenges in safety, spam, and security on the platform using Smyte's review tools and processes.

Facebook's subscription groups are meant to help admins earn money from what they do through a monthly subscription fee from members while providing exclusive content to their communities.

If you have previously set the suggested privacy status for your posts to "friends only" or "friends of friends," you may be prompted to review and amend the visibility of your recent status updates.

Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom has confirmed via his Twitter account that the photo and video-sharing service is working on new tools meant to provide users with insights into their "time spent."

LinkedIn has added a video-based feature so that companies and workers can post videos about their skills or workplaces. Users will also be able to find out who they have reached with their content.