The chief executives of Twitter, Facebook and Google have been criticised by US Republican senators for alleged anti-conservative bias in the companies’ social media platforms and received a warning of coming restrictions from Congress.

The Republican Party’s push against Facebook and Twitter accelerated on Thursday after its senators threatened the CEOs of the social media companies with subpoenas to force them to address accusations of censorship in the closing weeks of the ...

People who rely on social media for information about coronavirus are more likely to believe conspiracy theories and breach lockdown rules, according to a study.

People are using social media less as a source of coronavirus information since lockdown began, according to Ofcom data.