Filed in December 2020 with much media fanfare, the lawsuit accused Mark Zuckerberg’s behemoth of having a monopoly on Personal Social Network (PSN) services and engaging in “a systematic strategy” to eliminate competition, by buying apps like Instagram and WhatsApp and denying potential rivals access to its platform. US District …
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Over the past eight years or so, censorship by Big Tech has been a consistent – and growing – concern. Many conservative groups have claimed they’ve been muzzled by platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. In other cases, the silencing has been even more blatant. Of course, the highest-profile …
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Wolfe was confirmed as an alternate to the US team last week. Over the weekend, journalist Ian Miles Cheong dug up a Facebook post from March 2020 – now deleted – in which the cyclist shared a PinkNews article accusing President Donald Trump and his attorney general of wanting to …
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The social media giant said it was committed to developing a “new satire framework” which will be used to assess facetious or sarcastic content that may be flagged as suspected hate speech. Information will also be added to the site’s community standards clarifying how satire factors into “context-specific decisions” about …
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Every democrat in the world should be sitting up and trembling in fear and indignation over the decision taken by Facebook to suspend Trump from the platform until at least January 7, 2023, and the idea that posts by politicians will be subject to more scrutiny by the company’s censors. …
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Cruz used Facebook’s recent reversal on a rule to flag posts suggesting Covid-19 was man-made as proof that the company is on “behalf of the government” in a Sunday interview with Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo. “These latest breakthroughs have real consequences because it now is clear that Facebook was operating …
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When it initiated the suspension in January, Facebook declared Trump’s tweets, posted before his supporters rioted at the US Capitol, “a severe violation of our rules.” The term of the suspension was announced by Facebook on Friday. Earlier, the company’s oversight board – a body convened by Facebook to weigh …
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Facebook – which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp – will treat accounts of politicians and public figures just like everyone else’s, and disclose when special newsworthiness exemption gets invoked to shield them from having “violating” content deleted, The Verge reported on Thursday. The Verge cited “two people familiar with the …
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Academic Arshin Adib-Moghaddam, professor in global thought and comparative philosophies at SOAS University, London, is the author of over 60 papers and six books on contemporary culture and politics. In his latest work ‘What is Iran?’ he sheds fresh light on the title’s ever-burning question, along with analysis of Tehran’s …
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“In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of [Covid-19] and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that [Covid-19] is man-made from our apps,” a Facebook spokesperson told Politico on Wednesday evening, in an emailed statement. “We’re continuing to work with health experts …
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