Facebook doubles down on ‘good’ censorship
Social media giant Facebook has announced it will be shadow-banning accounts that repeatedly share stuff it doesn’t approve of.
Social media giant Facebook has announced it will be shadow-banning accounts that repeatedly share stuff it doesn’t approve of.
The Indian government is increasingly unhappy about its inability to intercept private communications.
There are signs that bulk censorship and state surveillance may have reached their high-water mark, at least in the West.
The Indian government seems to be trying to silence public speculation that the recent surge in Covid cases was caused by political gatherings.
The UK government has created the Digital Markets Unit to tackle the growing problem of US tech giants using their size to stifle competition.
American Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has publicly questioned the contradictions presented by the current legal status of social media platforms.
US politicians are increasingly grandstanding in opposition to technology giants and it looks like they’ve decided it’s time to fight back.
Ahead of yet another US political grilling, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is proposing that Section 230 protections should be restricted to those sites with comment screening systems.
German operator group DT keeps banging on about how committed it is to combatting online hate speech, but what does that mean in practice?
The tactic of removing all Australian news content by social media giant Facebook, in response to a new law it didn’t like, seems to have been vindicated, at least in the short term.
Anyone who questioned the desirability of the US President being banned by social media companies was told they can do what they want. Does the same principle apply to Facebook in Australia?
The social media platform that offers itself as an alternative to the dominant oligopoly has managed to restore itself a month after AWS cut it off.
As the EU works to refine its massive Digital Services Act, France is publicly lobbying for greater national censorship powers and for more content to be made illegal.
What started as a few amateur investors trying to undermine the efforts of hedge funds to make money from a declining stock is having wider repercussions.
Social media platform Twitter, famous for the measured and conciliatory attitude of its users, wants to let them annotate each other’s posts.
New US President Biden has promoted FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to chair the regulator and the policing of social media is likely to be her biggest single task.
Targeted censorship and inept enforcement of terms of service are pouring fuel on the factional fire and driving millions of people to alternative platforms.
Consumers spent a lot more time on social networking apps last year, with video-sharing app TikTok making major strides, according to new data from App Annie.
Following activist pressure from its own employees, Amazon Web Services kicked social network Parler off its servers today.
The legal protections enjoyed by social media companies need updating, but that responsibility will fall to the Democrat-controlled FCC.
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