Ukrainian authorities have dismantled a so-called “bot farm” that police say was supplying thousands of fake social media accounts to Russian intelligence services for use in disinformation campaigns against Ukraine.

David Shenk, in his work Data Smog, warned that the problem of contemporary societies would not be the scarcity of information, but rather its disorderly excess and its circulation without adequate filters. What happens when this overabundance is transferred to electoral analysis and is enhanced with artificial intelligence tools? It...

Section 230 helps make it possible for online communities to host user speech: from restaurant reviews, to fan fiction, to collaborative encyclopedias. But recent debates about the law often overlook how it works in practice. To mark its 30th anniversary, EFF is interviewing leaders of online platforms about how they...

The regulator fined Poste Italiane SpA, the postal service provider, €6.6 million ($7.8 million) and Postepay SpA, a digital payments subsidiary, €5.9 million ($7 million) for allegedly illegally processing millions of users’ personal data.

A theft of nearly $300 million worth of cryptocurrency has been attributed to hackers from North Korea, as the industry grapples with the fallout of a wide-ranging incident involving multiple prominent platforms.

Musk, the billionaire owner of X, and the company's chief executive Linda Yaccarino had both been summoned for voluntary interviews with police on April 20 in Paris.