The US election will test social media censorship to breaking point
Electoral losers are increasingly blaming social media for their failure, but this year will demonstrate that censorship is not the answer.
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.
Twitter’s share price was slashed by 18% as the market opened this morning, with the social media giant failing to find enough consistency to impress investors.
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 Trump has invited a number of social media commentators to a discussion about the current digital environment.
Its often said the pen is mightier than the sword, but President Donald Trump seems to think his twitter account is the literary version of a dirty bomb.
With much of public discussion now taking place on the three main social platforms the time has come to take editorial control away from their owners.
Social media giant Facebook has significantly stepped-up its censorship efforts by banning seven accounts, six of which are often described as ‘far-right’.
The latest mutiny at Google illustrates what a political game technology has become and it’s only going to get more so.
In recent days another round of restrictions has been imposed across YouTube and Facebook, with social media companies increasingly being used as proxies in a culture war.
Challenger brands need to try harder to get noticed, but this approach can sometimes backfire, as Three UK found out this week.
In just the third year of the EU’s Orwellian online speech purge it looks like the major platforms are largely submitting to its will.
A number of independent online commentators have been blacklisted by technology giants for seemingly arbitrary reasons.
Facebook recently removed hundreds of accounts for inauthentic behaviour and many of those affected have also seen their Twitter accounts suspended.
Social network Twitter continues to agonise over how it should censor its users and thinks getting them involved in the process might help.
The European Commission is reportedly planning to bring in new laws that will punish social media companies if they don’t remove terrorist content within an hour of it being flagged.
The apparently coordinated banning of conspiracy site InfoWars has brought to a head the role of social media companies in censoring public discussion.
Despite being one of the first social media networks to disrupt the way we communicate, Twitter has never really gleamed the rewards of the connected economy, but perhaps this is changing.
Now this is not something many people were expecting, but the ugly duckling of the social media giants posted its first ever profit in the last quarter.
A new German law designed to prevent, remove and prosecute ‘hate speech’ online has come into full effect, which could set a precedent for the rest of the world.
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