reader comments 69 On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to review an appeal from X (formerly Twitter), alleging that the US government’s censorship of X transparency reports served as a prior restraint on the platform’s speech and was unconstitutional. This free speech battle predates Elon Musk’s ownership of the platform. Since 2014, the social media ..
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reader comments 93 with On Friday, the Supreme Court agreed to decide if two laws crafted by Republicans in Florida and Texas run afoul of the First Amendment because the laws force platforms to explain all their content moderation decisions to users. Both laws, passed in 2021 after several major platforms banned Donald Trump, seemingly ..
reader comments 22 with Today, Elon Musk and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu livestreamed a discussion largely focused on the future of AI on Musk’s platform X, formerly known as Twitter. According to The New York Times, the talk was arranged at Musk’s suggestion, and some perceived it as an attempt by Musk to seek ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 78 with The day before a Texas antiporn law that requires age verification to access adult websites was set to take effect, the state’s attorney general, Angela Colmenero, has been at least temporarily blocked from enforcing the law. US District Judge David Alan Ezra granted a preliminary injunction ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 97 with Debate continues to rage over the federal Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which seeks to hold platforms liable for feeding harmful content to minors. KOSA is lawmakers’ answer to whistleblower Frances Haugen’s shocking revelations to Congress. In 2021, Haugen leaked documents and provided testimony alleging that ..
reader comments 39 with Starting today, Facebook users may feel a little less safe posting anonymously. The Court of the Hague in The Netherlands ruled that Meta Ireland must unmask an anonymous user accused of defaming the claimant, a male Facebook user who allegedly manipulated and made secret recordings of women he dated. The anonymous ..
reader comments 75 with Yesterday, the US Supreme Court decided that a lower court’s logic was flawed when it convicted a Colorado man, Billy Raymond Counterman, for stalking. Counterman had sent hundreds of online messages—some of which the lower court ruled that a reasonable person would consider threatening—to a local musician, Coles Whalen, whom he’d ..
Enlarge / Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) shakes hands with Elon Musk during a meeting in Ankara on November 8, 2017. reader comments 154 with This weekend, Twitter restricted access to some tweets in Turkey at the request of the Turkish government ahead of its next presidential election. Twitter’s compliance silenced accounts that had ..
reader comments 120 with Tesla CEO Elon Musk hoped that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would narrow or possibly even end the terms of a 2018 securities fraud settlement that require a lawyer to review his Tesla tweets before he posts them. Instead, a federal appeals court today rejected Musk’s claims that the SEC’s consent ..
Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 36 with Share this story “Women, life, freedom” became the protest chant of a revolution still raging in Iran months after a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, died while in custody of morality police. Amini was arrested last September for “improperly” wearing a hijab and violating the Islamic ..