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 ..
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Enlarge / Cars parked at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, on February 10, 2022. Getty Images | Josh Edelson reader comments 82 with The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) sued Tesla yesterday, alleging that the electric carmaker violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by subjecting Black employees at its manufacturing facilities in ..
reader comments 214 with Like Netflix, Disney+ is getting more stringent about sharing account login information. Disney+’s subscriber agreement already says users can’t share account information, but the streaming service on Tuesday informed its Canadian users that it is “implementing restrictions on account sharing.” As spotted by MobileSyrup Wednesday, Disney+ emailed Canadian subscribers informing them ..
Enlarge / Firefighters tackle a wildfire at Vale de Abelha village in Macao, Portugal, on August 16, 2017. reader comments 73 with The largest climate case ever raised before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) kicked off Wednesday in Strasbourg, France, Reuters reported. It’s an “unprecedented” effort from six young Portuguese people—ages 11 to ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 506 with Disinformation is more prevalent on Twitter (aka X) than on Facebook and other social networks, according to a European Union report. The report released yesterday is a pilot study conducted as part of the voluntary Code of Practice on Disinformation that was created before Elon Musk bought ..
Enlarge / Federal Communication Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, then a commissioner, rallies against repeal of net neutrality rules in December 2017. Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla reader comments 139 with Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel today announced plans to restore net neutrality rules similar to those that were adopted during the Obama era and ..
Getty Images | NurPhoto reader comments 59 with The US Securities and Exchange Commission has “collected thousands of staff messages from more than a dozen major investment companies” as it expands a probe into how employees and executives at Wall Street firms use private messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and Signal, Reuters reported today, citing ..
Enlarge / The Supreme Court. Getty Images | Douglas Rissing reader comments 146 with The Supreme Court on Friday extended a stay of a lower-court order that would limit the Biden administration’s contacts with social media firms, giving justices a few more days to consider whether to block the ruling entirely. The court could rule ..
reader comments 38 with In one of its many attempts to curb robocalls, the Federal Communications Commission said it is making it harder for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) providers to obtain direct access to US telephone numbers. Robocallers make heavy use of VoIP providers to bombard US residents with junk calls, often from spoofed ..
Shutterstock reader comments 33 with Months out of law school, Yosef Weitzman already has a huge courtroom role in the biggest antitrust trial of the century. In a US federal trial that started last week, Google is accused of unlawfully monopolizing online search and search ads. The company’s self-defined mission is to make the world’s ..
