Social media users are up in arms after the civil rights organisation laid charges against 100 individuals, alleging they posted messages containing hate speech.
The search engine giant will stop its controversial practice of scanning personal e-mails to serve targeted adverts.
Administrators could be held accountable for defamatory or offensive images shared in WhatsApp group chats.
Social media users across the country pledged to abstain from using social media today in protest against high data prices.
Fake news is simply one facet of the bigger problem: the manipulation of public opinion to affect the real world, says Anvee Alderton from Trend Micro.
A new hyperlocal app lets residents and visitors to the seaside town find all businesses and services in the area, as well as call for help.
The world's largest social network has set up its African base camp in the wilds of Bryanston, Johannesburg.
Disaster descriptions will be added to the Facebook Safety Check feature and users will be able to add notes when they mark themselves as safe.
The next iteration of Snapchat Spectacles will reportedly incorporate augmented reality features.
The social network will hold a youth enterprise day next week to give young entrepreneurs a crash course on Facebook products.
Uber, Pick n Pay and others enable people in the rest of the country to help those affected by the Cape Town storm and Knysna fire.