Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has offered an apology to victims and relatives of people harmed by his social media sites, including teens who were sexually abused online and those who took their own lives following digital bullying.

Al-Monitor - Irans newly inaugurated parliament is pushing for a new ban on the countrys already restricted social media, a campaign that critics view as a war on the free flow of information. Heated debates during last week's parliament meeting in Tehran are fueling concerns among millions of Iranians that the newly elected conservative lawmakers ...

MNA Referring to the recent war of words between Iran and US embassies in Beijing, Ambassador in Beijing China Mohammad Keshavarz-Zadeh said that hit-and-run era is over and US has been knocked out in social media too. In a Tuesday tweet, Keshavarz-zadeh wrote that era of hit-and-run in cyberspace is also over, adding that after the martyrdom of ...

The Guardian | Tom Whyman: Sure, Twitter has a lot of ill-informed blowhards. But dont dismiss on-the-ground voices and those who hold powerful pundits to account On Friday, I woke up to the news that the third world war had started. In the Middle East, a man named Qassem Suleimani, the commander of Irans al-Quds force, had been killed in a US drone ...

MNA Facebook has deleted the page which was publishing remarks of the Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in Arabic. The page had some 100,000 followers and had been earlier restricted by the American company. This is not the first time that pages related to the Islamic Revolution Leader are being restricted in social media as Instagram,...

Radio Farda - The United States has called on social media giants Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to suspend accounts linked to Iranian government leaders until Internet coverage is restored in that country. "It is a deeply hypocritical regime," Brian Hook, the U.S. special representative for Iran, told Bloomberg News in an interview posted on ...

Financial Tribune - Iranian news website Digiato, with help from artificial intelligence text analysis service provider Vakavic, has reviewed 1 million tweets posted in the last Iranian year (ended March 20, 2019) to find the highly trending topics and those with the most followers. Twitter is officially banned in Iran, but ironically almost all ...

Al-Monitor - Massive crowds accompanied the April 29 funeral procession of Mostafa Ghasemi, a 46-year-old cleric who was shot and killed in broad daylight in the western Iranian city of Hamedan last week. Within 24 hours of the murder, security forces killed the alleged assailant in a gun battle, leaving behind unanswered questions as well as debates ...

The Epoch Times - Every parent sees the beauty in their own childrenbut even the most doting parents would find it hard not to admit that 7-year-oldMahdis Mohammadi of Iran is absolutely jaw-dropping. The adorable young girl has gone viral onInstagramafter the internet caught wind of her doll-like appearance, which already has companies scrambling ...

Crypto News -Update: Telegram developers fixed the issue in the next two hours. There was no update on the reasons behind the crash. Telegram functions completely restored for all countries that were affected, and with that we are back in business. The Telegram team gave the okay sign through these two tweets: Telegram Messenger ?@telegram 17h One ...

MNA Irans ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi proposed defining standards in social media to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). In a Wednesday meeting with ISO Secretary-General Sergio Mujica in Tehran, the Iranian Minister of Information and Communications Technology proposed defining of standards in social ...

TechRasa- According to a recent statement by the ICT Minister, there are between 42 to 45 million social media users in Iran. The number of users on Iranian messaging apps has also reached 7.5 million. While its not clear which exact social media or networks have been included in this number stated by the ICT Minister, previously in July 2017, the ...

MNA Iranian ICT Minister Azari Jahromi said Mon. that 10.5 users have signed up to domestic messaging apps and the number is growing, almost a month after Telegram was banned in the country. ICT Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahrami made the remarks after a meeting between officials from Parliaments commissions of national security, economy and ...

Al-Monitor- Iransminister of communications and information technology is continuing to criticizeunelectedgovernmentalbodies for their attempts to block social media and messaging services. Irans judiciary shut down Telegram, a popular messaging servicewith approximately 40 million users in Iran, after conservative officials complained that national ...

Press TV- Iranians have begun installing new messaging applications after telecommunications providers blocked Telegram as per a judiciary order to protect national security. Telegram was down on Tuesday, with alternative platforms such as the domestic Soroush and Gap apps already released for use, offering most of Telegrams features. Iranian ...

Al Monitor - The popular messaging app Telegram is seemingly drawing its last breaths in Iran as a number of reports indicate its likely imminent blocking. Telegram has more than 40 million users in Iran and is widely believed to have played a significant role in the victory of Irans moderate President Hassan Rouhani in the 2017 presidential elections....

IFP - An Iranian couple has, in a humanitarian move, shared photos of needy children on their Instagram page to provide the opportunity for benevolent people to help deprived families. Saeedeh Delmoradi, a young teacher who teaches at a school for exceptional children, and her husband Mohammad Mousavian, have managed to build a new life for ...

Financial Tribune- Telecoms Minister Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi took to Instagram to give ear to the growing concerns of the public regarding the proposed ban on Telegram, the popular communications app with over 40 million Iranian users. Jahromi wrote on his Instagram page on Saturday night that the blocking of international services as a method ...

Tasnim Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called on administrative and judicial authorities to respect the Iranian peoples privacy amid debates about the need for replacing foreign mobile messaging applications with homegrown ones. The authorities must safeguard the people and countrys security and privacy. Invading peoples ...

IFP- While there are reports that a decision has been made by Irans Supreme Council of Cyberspace to permanently ban the popular messaging app Telegram, the Council has kept denying such allegations. Iranian lawmaker Hamideh Zarabadi said on Saturday that according to credible information from the ICT ministry, the permanent blocking of Telegram ...