After a 12-year-old US girl's death was broadcast on social media, police could do little to keep the disturbing footage from spreading online.

Facebook has announced that it's launching its own journalism project, continuing its efforts to change the way media organisations work with the social network. The move could be seen as an extension of its vow earlier this year to crack down on fake news on the site.

Though its decline has been a long time coming, 2016 was the year that the iconic Internet Explorer ceased to be the most popular way to browse the web on desktops.

It's no secret that teenagers love social media, but how much do they understand what they've agreed to give up when they start an account?

Mark Zuckerberg has revealed his annual personal challenge: he wants to have visited and met people in every US state by the end of 2017, in an effort to better understand the "division" he feels is growing between people that use the social network he founded.

Sony Music Entertainment's Twitter account has been hacked, publishing fake statements that pop music icon Britney Spears had died.

It turns out we tend to google a lot of things. A lot of those things tend to be sports related.

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The search giant has been forced to make changes after a glitch in its results was exposed.

Donald Trump, asylum seekers, local music and #auspol were all chief topics of interest among Australian Twitter users in 2016, although as usual they were joined by a wave of memes and a near-incomprehensible amount of love for YouTube celebs turned rock band 5 Seconds of Summer.

Facebook is working on automatically flagging offensive material in live video streams, building on a growing effort to use artificial intelligence to monitor content.

Social media website Reddit, known for its commitment to free speech, will crack down on online harassment by banning or suspending users who target others, starting with those who have directed abuse at CEO Steve Huffman.

For the longest time I'd been extremely defensive about my use of Facebook, but I realised my behaviour had become compulsive and was stealing time from my family.

Steve Huffman, the chief executive of Reddit, knows he has some explaining to do.

Someone renamed Donald Trump's midtown Manhattan building on Google Maps, and the new moniker isn't very flattering.

Twitter has not been shy about handing out suspensions, but recently it brought the ban hammer down on someone very surprising.

The most common cause of death by selfie worldwide was falling from a building or mountain.

Twitter has taken another step in its long fight against trolls, announcing that it will give users a mute feature to weed out harassing words and phrases from their notifications.

Facebook's chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has again rejected claims the social network affected the US presidential election, saying it is "extremely unlikely" news hoaxes changed the outcome.

With US election fever hitting its climax the web is filling with dubious information, from concerted efforts to influence voters to straight-up trolling to old-fashioned clickbait.

As our social lives have moved onto social media sites like Facebook over the past decade, there's been a lot of hand-wringing over what all that screen time might be doing to our health.

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Ever been caught napping? Well, imagine if your little snooze was seen by the all-seeing eye of Google StreetView and splashed all over the internet.

Disney decided not to pursue a bid for Twitter partly out of concern that bullying and other uncivil forms of communication on the social media site might soil the company's wholesome family image, according to people familiar with management's thinking.

The web is rife with annoyances. Here are some browser add-ons that make it a better place for everyone.

Google is celebrating 18 years as a company, and is marking the occasion in the only way the web giant knows how: with a Google Doodle.

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has acknowledged giving $13,000 to pro-Donald Trump group which created anti-Hillary Clinton memes.

Twitter has announced that, as of now, media extras such as photos, GIFs, and videos — along with quoted tweets and user polls — will no longer contribute to the 140-character limit per tweet.

​Not a fan of what you're seeing in your Instagram comments? The social network is about to give you the power to ignore what you don't want to see.

Look once you'll see a maximum of four. Look twice, you'll see eight.

The rise of the internet has been a double-edged sword for Star Trek clubs like Austrek, helping win over a new generation of fans but reducing their need to join a fan club in order to stay in touch with the adventures of Star Fleet.