Raising awareness of organ donation on social media websites can help boost donation rates, according to a new study.

A crime blogger whose early and dogged research helped bring national attention to the case is fending off criticism that she helped create “an Internet lynch mob.”

There is no doubt that big data helped President Obama win comfortably over his Presidential opponent Mitt Romney in 2012. While President Obama already had a huge database of 13 million email listings from 2008, Mitt Romney had to build his social media campaign from scratch as the Republicans did not indulge in social media [...]

Social media at times was a help, other times a hindrance in the search and eventual arrest of a suspect in the triple fatal shooting at a pool party at an Alabama apartment complex, officials said Wednesday.

The founders of Instagram, now multimillionaires after Facebook bought their app this week, were helped along the way by the tight web in the Bay Area tech scene.