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The National Rifle Association's Facebook and Twitter pages went back online Tuesday evening at the conclusion of a day marked by a slew media reports criticizing the NRA for going dark on social media and failing to address the Newtown, Conn., massacre last Friday that left 20 students, six adults and the shooter, Adam Lanza dead at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Breaking its silence four days after the slaughter in Newtown, Conn., the National Rifle Association said Tuesday it is "prepared to offer meaningful contributions to help make sure this never happens again."

Users who are upset with Instagram might find the new Flickr app to be an acceptable replacement.

Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) has been ordered to stop enforcing its real name policy by the Independent Centre for Privacy Protection (ULD), a German data protection agency.

Instagram is the target of a storm of outrage on Twitter and other sites after a change in its user agreement hinted that it might use shared photos in ads.

Naeimeh Eshraghi, granddaughter of Iran's late Ayatollah Khomeini, surfs banned web sites & champions democracy despite a repressive regime.

Facebook pages celebrating Adam Lanza, the suspected killer in Friday's school shooting in Newtown, Conn., have been springing up since the tragedy.

Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), lead underwriter of the $109 billion initial public offering of Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) was fined $5 million by Massachusetts regulators.

Instagram published its new Privacy Policy Monday that suggest deeper integration within Facebook's (Nasdaq: FB) than the two services have demonstrated so far in their history together.

Misidentified as the perpetrator of the mass shooting at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., on Friday, a couple of Ryan Lanzas reacted on Facebook and Twitter.

In the wake of the Newtown, Conn., school shooting on Friday, a statement supposedly written by actor Morgan Freeman blamed the massacre on the “sensationalist media” and spread like wildfire across the Internet. Despite the online popularity of the statement, Freeman’s publicist denied the actor wrote it.

Victoria Soto has emerged as one of the Connecticut school shooting heroes after dying to save her students.

Fiorello LaGuardia once said, “When I make a mistake, it's a beaut.” Too bad he wasn't around to witness 2012's tech "beauts."

The recent tragedy in Connecticut has brought home a couple of points -- reflecting both on the tragedy itself and on the reactions I’ve seen from the people around me.

CNN and Fox News segments had many viewers believing the elementary school shooting in Newtown, Conn., was caused by violent video games. Many of them attacked the "Mass Effect" promotional page on Facebook.

A man named Ryan Lanza has been identified as the suspect in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

U.S. and international authorities arrested 10 cyberhackers allegedly involved in piracy of 11 million PCs and theft of $850 million.

Gigya, a web infrastructure company, has introduced a unique solution to the mounting concern of protecting user privacy and social data: listing industry standard best practices, and approving different companies with a social privacy certification and seal.

Facebook has changed it's privacy settings, which has again resulted in unfavorable reactions from users.

People took to Twitter and Facebook to discuss why Kanye West was wearing a leather skirt during the "12.12.12" concert.

The conflict between Twitter and Instagram proves that not all wars are bad.

A news outlet calling itself Global Associated News claimed Carrey died in a snowboarding accident in Switzerland.

A 50-foot rubber duck was wading in the waters of the Thames River in London Tuesday, forcing the city’s famed Tower Bridge to part so it could continue on its journey as part of a Facebook game company’s promotion.

Twitter is introducing a new photo editing and sharing service to its social network in response to a growing tension between the startup and Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) over its use of Instagram images.

According to a recent report, more marketers are outsourcing their Facebook/Twitter accounts, with possible legal consequences.

Instagram began to trend on Twitter after Facebook went down for some users.

A Vivian Lake photo is making the rounds online following her birth Friday. Vivian Lake is the name of Gisele Bundchen and Tom Brady's newborn daughter, who was born at the couple's home in California.

The popular photo-sharing service has replaced its images with links in Twitter feeds, a move to boost Instagram's web profile.

Dozens of women from the Middle East and North Africa are doing big things in science and technology, with American help. Meet some of them.