Social media censorship in the time of coronavirus
Every day new initiatives are being announced to ensure people have the correct information on the COVID-19 pandemic, but who watches the watchers?
Every day new initiatives are being announced to ensure people have the correct information on the COVID-19 pandemic, but who watches the watchers?
Mobile operators are being asked to provide subscriber data to governments in order to track the spread of coronavirus and they dare not refuse.
Reports detailing Chinese state attempts to censor criticism of its handling of the coronavirus outbreak illustrate the danger of allowing political control over social media.
Like the data addict it is, social media giant Facebook feels it can’t be trusted to moderate its own habits and thinks state intervention may be the answer.
Establishment figure Dame Melanie Dawes has been announced as the new Chief Exec of UK telecoms regulator Ofcom.
Electoral losers are increasingly blaming social media for their failure, but this year will demonstrate that censorship is not the answer.
Social media giant Twitter is exploring the creation of an open standard that it hopes will provide the answer to the impossible question of censorship.
The iPhone maker took down the crowd-sourced app HKmap.live, favoured by the protesters in Hong Kong to track police movement, from its local App Store, after being blasted by China’s state media.
The European Commission wants to pay people to help ensure only the kind of information it approves of is allowed to be published online.
A new ruling by the EU Court of Justice seems to compel social media companies to enact EU censorship demands even outside of its jurisdiction.
Yet another set of ill-considered censorship decisions by Silicon Valley has illustrated once more the impossible position it’s in when it comes to policing the public.
As video sharing service YouTube strives to censor ever more rigorously, can it still be considered a neutral platform?
US social media sites have announced coordinated action designed to counter a propaganda campaign apparently designed to undermine the Hong Kong democracy protests.
US President Donald Trump has directed his ire towards Silicon Valley once more, this time warning Google about meddling in the 2020 Presidential election.
In its desperation to placate corporate advertisers YouTube has antagonized many of its independent creators, but now they’re fighting back.
US President Trump has made it clear that he considers social media censorship to be a major concern that may require fresh legislation and regulation.
US President Trump has invited a number of social media commentators to a discussion about the current digital environment.
Social media platform Instagram has implemented a couple of new tools that aim to take a softer approach to protecting users from harassment.
The issue of social media censorship has caught the attention of the US Senate, where one member has proposed stripping tech giants of their legal protection as platforms.
In her first public statements since last week’s censorship controversy YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki attempted to strike a balance between freedom of speech and censorship.
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