The FCC asserts its authority to rule on Section 230 social media protections
Republican politicians are pushing for reforms to Section 230, which protects internet platforms from liability for the content they host, and they want the FCC to help.
Republican politicians are pushing for reforms to Section 230, which protects internet platforms from liability for the content they host, and they want the FCC to help.
Twitter and Facebook blocked a NY Post report that was damaging to a US Presidential candidate, leading to renewed calls to remove their Section 230 protection.
The US President’s crusade to tackle what he perceives as biased political censorship by social media platforms is gathering momentum.
The US government has nominated NTIA advisor Nathan Simington to replace Commissioner Mike O’Rielly at its telecoms regulator, apparently because he opposed plans to tighten social media regulation.
Social media giant Facebook has been under constant regulatory and governmental scrutiny for years, but now it faces its most fearsome adversary yet.
Apparently people sometimes say things online that UK politicians don’t like, so they want to be able to punish social media companies that allow it.
A host of prominent Twitter users had their accounts hacked in a Bitcoin scam and claimed screenshots from the hackers show tools used to blacklist accounts.
A bunch of Facebook execs met with representatives of a group that is attempting to impose its will on the company by pressuring its commercial partners.
Social media giant Facebook is refusing to be blackmailed into having its censorship policies dictated to it, for now.
The decision by major brands to boycott Facebook and Twitter has caused other internet platforms to panic into removing and accounts they fear may upset advertisers.
The campaign against Facebook has metastasised, as big brands increasingly decide all social media is too toxic for them.
Censorship advocates are celebrating the addition of US telco Verizon to their campaign against Facebook, but they’re mistaken.
A coalition of political pressure groups has called for a companies to suspend advertising on all Facebook platforms, in protest over it hosting political messages they don’t like.
Well that was quick. No sooner does Google censor the comments sections of two independent news sites than the US legislative machine moves to remove its own protections.
A blatant display of targeted, coordinated censorship has resulted in Google threatening two news sites with demonetization unless they delete specified comments sections.
Microblogging platform Twitter has returned to more conventional forms of censorship by removing accounts found to be part of state-linked information operations.
Social media giant Facebook continues to walk the tightrope on censorship, this time adding warning labels to posts that originate from media outlets it considers to be under state control.
Having criticized Twitter for poking the bear, Facebook seems to be adopting a more nuanced approach to policing its platform.
The podcasting industry was shaken up this week with the announcement that JRE is moving exclusively to Spotify and it looks like it has caught Apple’s attention.
A new law has been passed in France that allows it to impose draconian punishments on social media companies that fail to take down some content within 60 minutes.
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