Investigators can now probe Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites as a part of background checks for security clearances — something that lawmakers said Friday was a classic case of the ...

Reddit’s on a roll. The social media platform has just turned a profit for the first time in its 20-year history, and now boasts a record 97.2 million daily active users, marking a year-over ...

The federal government was scheduled to start checking social media as part of a background checks for employees seeking security clearance.

That’s not to say social media couldn’t come up in the course of a background investigation, but in cases thus far, the social media aspect has generally been surfaced by human means versus ...

He's only 19 years old. No politicians called for social media background checks in the wake of the Parkland shooting. In fact, Republican lawmakers actively held back progress on gun control.

Security Executive Agent Directive Five was signed May 12, codifying federal background investigative authority to incorporate publicly available social media information in the security clearance ...

Stitching a video from another creator (@moosquatch69) who claims they lost out on a job due to the employer checking out their social media profiles, TikTok user and cybersecurity worker Chris ...

Between the Trump Administration declaring private accounts a red flag for foreign students and employers using AI to find ...

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency wants a tool to automatically cull social media and other public websites to create a searchable database of posts, actions and interactions ...

Investigators can now probe Twitter, Facebook and other social media sites as a part of background checks for security clearances -- something that lawmakers said Friday was a classic case of the ...