Ethics in Social Media and Online Commenting

Canada’s La Presse Hoaxed by Fake Bill Murray Twitter

Montreal newspaper La Presse was hoaxed by a fake Twitter account for actor Bill Murray. In a June 23 post,...

Two Canadian newspapers decided against letting readers comment on its news stories about the alleged video of Toronto mayor Rob...

UK judge Justice Michael Tugendhat ruled that Sally Bercow -- the wife of UK Speaker of the House of Commons,...

Twitter now has a two-step verification process as a way to "better protect your Twitter account," the company announced in...

The Guardian reported that some of its Twitter accounts was hacked this past week. Hacked accounts included the Guardian's Books,...

Matthew Keys was fired from Reuters just a month after he was accused of helping Anonymous hack the Los Angeles...

Fake "political, anti-Semitic and comical" tweets were posted by hackers on "several BBC Twitter accounts' last week, the Associated Press...

Is it OK for the news media to use a 14-year-old's photo from Facebook in reports about the minor's death?...

Satire site The Onion apologized today for its "senseless, humorless comment" about Quvenzhane Wallis, who was a nominee for last...