On January 8 Twitter took the unprecedented decision to suspend US President Donald Trump’s account. It came after other social media giants went after Trump and his supporters, including conspiracy […] ...

In the context of rising concerns regarding social media content moderation practices, Jeff Kosseff discusses the original intent and current effects of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The post 5 questions for Jeff Kosseff on Section 230 an ...

In the context of rising concerns regarding social media content moderation practices, Jeff Kosseff discusses the original intent and current effects of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The post In defense of Section 230: My long-readA with ...

Read time: 12 minsParler is fast becoming a conservative echo-chamber but big name climate deniers don't seem to be abandoning mainstream social media for the fringe platform — at least not yet. Tags: Social Mediaclimate denial databaseclimate denialtwitt ...

RojNews journalist Zusik Hamed has been arrested in Çoman, South Kurdistan. The journalist had been criticising the arrest of youth activists on his social media. He has now been taken to the Soran Police Department. ...

The sexual assaults of a child by state officials in Gercüş, in Batman have been responded with a social media campaign. ...

Journalist Dicle Müftüoğlu has been sentenced in Amed to over a year in prison for alleged propaganda for a terrorist organization. She is accused of having shared on social media a photo of the fight for Kobanê in 2014. ...

The Deir Ezzor Military Council (DMC) denied the photos and news circulated on social media that the international coalition handed over reconnaissance aircraft to Deir Ezzor Military Council. The DMC confirmed that the planes belong to the international ...

Last week, Facebook reportedly evaluated tools developed for countries at risk for political instability for possible use in the US. In the modern world, the diffusion of social media is a two-way street, and this shows that firms can willingly take steps ...

Section 230 is a suboptimal vehicle to address some Republicans’ concerns that social media disproportionately silences conservatives. Are there other legal frameworks that could be a better fit? The post Beyond 230: Reframing the conservative debate over ...

Two press conferences he joined and social media posts were used to prepare the indictment, against journalist Hakkı Boltan. A prison sentence of up to 15 years is sought. ...

A lawyer questions social media posts showing an officer carrying a black toddler during protests. ...

Journalist Sabiha Temizkan was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison on the grounds of her social media posts. The court did not delay the sentence. ...

Content moderation is hard, and the controversy around how Facebook and Twitter handled the Hunter Biden New York Post story should be seen as an example of trial and error, which is a critical process of obtaining better results in emerging industries. T ...

The brutal killing of a 19-year-old draws protests in several cities and on social media. ...

Theologian-writer Ihsan Eliaçık announced on social media that he was sentenced to 1 year and 2 months for insulting Turkish President Erdoğan. ...

Social media companies claim they censor content because it’s dangerous or untrue. But the very point of free speech and the larger open society is that truth is hard to pin down and new truths are always unconventional. The post Big Tech’s presumptuous m ...