Industry Keyword: Section 230

Ahead of the one-year anniversary of the storming of the US Capitol, Twitter convened a team to prepare the social networking site to address any harmful content associated with the event, the company told...

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen has told Congress that one option for making social media less harmful would be to create a dedicated regulatory agency to oversee companies like Facebook, which could have former tech...

Former US President Donald Trump asked a federal judge in Florida on Friday to ask Twitter to restore his account, which the company removed in January citing a risk of incitement of violence. Trump filed...

Twitter will allow people to tip their favourite content creators with bitcoin and will launch a fund to pay some users who host audio chat rooms on its Spaces feature, the company has said. The...

Facebook Inc's independent Oversight Board has said it has asked the social networking giant to provide clarity on the system it uses to review content decisions relating to some high-profile users. The board's inquiry follows...

Facebook Inc has approached academics and policy experts about forming a commission to advise it on issues relating to global elections, the New York Times reported has reported, citing five people with knowledge of...

Zoom has agreed to pay $85 million and bolster its security practices to settle a lawsuit claiming it violated users' privacy rights by sharing personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn, and letting hackers...

Former US President Donald J Trump filed lawsuits against Twitter Inc, Facebook, and Google, as well as their chief executives, alleging they unlawfully silence conservative viewpoints. The lawsuits, filed in US District Court in Miami,...

Former US President Donald J Trump's former senior advisor Jason Miller has started a social media site called GETTR, he said on Thursday. GETTR, a Twitter-style platform with posts and trending topics, advertised itself on...

Former US President Donald J Trump joined video platform Rumble on Saturday, the same day he will take the stage at a campaign-style rally in Ohio, his first such event since the controversy of...

Over the course of the last few months, we have been running two distinct polls asking questions about the current legal protections offered to 'Big Tech' and platform businesses. The polls, whilst not entirely scientific...

US President Biden has officially revoked an executive order by President Donald J Trump that had directed regulators to limit liability protections for social media businesses. The White House released an order by Biden late...