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Social companies like Facebook and Twitter are starting to take action against hate speech and misinformation on their platforms. But NBC News technology reporter Brandy Zadrozny says it will take more than their current whack-a-mole approach to solve the problem.

For years, social media platforms have fueled political polarization and hosted an explosion of hate speech. Now, with four months until the U.S. presidential election and the country’s divisions reaching a boiling point, these companies are upping their game against bigotry and threats of violence. What’s not yet clear is whether this action is too little, too late —...

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian resigned from the San Francisco company’s board and is urging his colleagues to fill the seat with a black candidate.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian announced Friday that he is resigning from the company’s board. “I’m doing this for me, for my family and for my country,” Ohanian said in a video posted to his Instagram.

The pizza shop seemed independent at first, but when the delivery came, they learned it was actually from Chuck E. Cheese.

A Kentucky doctor who violently attacked a group of teen girls, choking one of them, apparently for failing to practice social distancing, was arrested after a video of the incident went viral over the weekend, NBC News reports.

Emerson Boggs, 25, a Ph.D. student and virologist at the University of Pittsburgh, signed up on Jan. 23 to moderate what was then a small Reddit community with about 1,000 members dedicated to a relatively obscure topic: a new coronavirus that had been discovered in Wuhan, China, according to NBC News.

Marvel fans are being warned to stay away from social media after leaked footage from the upcoming “Avengers: Endgame” was found circulating online. Walt Disney has kept the film shrouded in so much secrecy that even journalists and critics weren’t permitted to see the film ahead of its premiere. Those who have viewed the clip have called it “spoiler heavy.”...

Reddit, the fifth-most visited U.S. website, according to the analytics firm Alexa, has been on the offensive against suspicious accounts linked to Russia, which its CEO Steve Huffman said have attempted to put up more than 1,000 posts in 130 different communities on the website in the past month. “We have a handful of teams working on this topic here,”...

Reddit, one of the most popular sites on the internet, fell victim to a cyberattack in June, the company revealed today, allowing hackers to steal email addresses and passwords of what the company calls a “small number” of users. The attack happened despite Reddit’s use of two-factor authentication, which relies on two separate factors, like a password and an SMS...

Serena Williams’s husband Alexis Ohanian posted a prideful and emotionally charged Instagram on Saturday after his wife lost in the Wimbledon final.

Let’s face it, San Francisco is expensive. To make matters worse, a new study has now ranked the city No. 1 in the world with the highest rent and the list also includes three more Bay Area cities in the top ten: San Jose, Oakland and Berkeley.

For all that has changed in the 16 months since Serena Williams last played in a Grand Slam tournament — she is now married and a mother — so much was familiar about her at the French Open on Tuesday. The fashion statement, this time in the form of a black bodysuit with a red belt that she said made...

Tennis champion Serena Williams celebrates Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding.

The first episode of “Being Serena,” a five-part documentary series on HBO about Serena Williams, closes with the tennis great in a hospital bed, about to have a C-section.

In a story in the magazine’s February issue and posted Wednesday on Vogue.com , Williams discusses developing several small blood clots in her lungs while in the hospital after Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr. was born in September.

Serena Williams is returning to competition with an exhibition match Saturday in Abu Dhabi against French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko. Williams has not competed since winning the Australian Open last January while she was pregnant. She will face Latvia’s Ostapenko at the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in the first year that women will be taking part, tournament organizers announced Sunday....

Serena Williams took to Instagram Thursday showing off her post baby body. And the new mom appears to be getting back into shape just fine.

Tennis superstar Serena Williams is a mom.
The 35-year-old winner of 23 Grand Slam singles titles and her fiance Alexis Ohanian welcomed a daughter on Friday, according to multiple reports. U.S. Open Tennis was among those offering congratulations on Twitter.

Serena Williams created a stir on social media Tuesday after saying giving birth will make her a “real woman.” In a cover story for Stellar magazine, the tennis star opened up about the significance of having a baby in her life and as a woman. “I am about to be a real woman now, you know? It’s going to be...