Section 230
Twitter convenes a team to prepare for Capitol riot anniversary
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 th...
Analysis: If Facebook is a problem, is a social media regulator the solution?
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 l...
Trump asks US judge to force Twitter to restart his account
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 ...
Twitter rolls out bitcoin tipping, safety features in product push
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...
Facebook Oversight Board seeks clarity on review system for high-profile users
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 ...
New York Times: Facebook considers forming an election commission
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, c...
Zoom reaches $85 million settlement over user privacy, ‘Zoombombing’
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, G...
Trump sues Facebook, Twitter and Google, claiming censorship
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 viewpo...
Former Trump aide Jason Miller launches social media site GETTR
Former US President Donald J Trump’s former senior advisor Jason Miller has started a social media site called GETTR, he said on Thursday.
President Trump joins video platform Rumble ahead of Ohio rally
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 c...
Poll: Big Tech should NOT receive legal protections under Section 230
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 ...
Returning the favour? Biden revokes Trump’s social media order
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.
Activism: Twitter shuts down accounts for attempting to evade Trump ban
Twitter Inc suspended several accounts this week that were set up to share statements from a new part of President Donald J Trump’s website, saying they broke its rules again...
Facebook confronts human rights dilemma on political speech
The Facebook oversight board’s extension of President Donald J Trump’s banishment from the social network failed to settle how it will balance political leaders’ ...
Supreme Court brings end to Trump Twitter fight
The US Supreme Court brought an end to a legal fight over former President Trump’s effort to block critics from following his now-frozen Twitter account, deciding the dispute...