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The UK’s Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law
Jeremy Wright was the first of five UK ministers charged with pushing through the British government’s landmark legislation on regulating…
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Palestinians Claim Social Media ‘Censorship’ Is Endangering Lives
When Israel issued an evacuation order from north Gaza on October 13, Shouq Al-Najjar left her house and headed south,…
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India Is Using Terrorism Laws to Target Journalists
A special unit of the Delhi Police, reporting directly to Narendra Modi’s union government, this morning seized the laptops and…
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The UK Is Poised to Force a Bad Law on the Internet
Plenty of other ideas have also been tacked onto the bill. The current text includes age checks for porn sites…
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It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign policy and attacking…
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It’s Getting Harder for the Government to Secretly Flag Your Social Posts
Wrote Doughty, “Defendants ‘significantly encouraged’ the social-media companies to such extent that the decisions (of the companies) should be deemed…
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TikTok Keeps Removing Abortion Pill Content
“There was no understanding that [the law] would even be enforced in Texas at the time because it was appealed…
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Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, and Twitter Censorship Mar Turkey’s Elections | WIRED
On the evening of Turkey’s most significant elections of the past two decades, Can Semercioğlu went to bed early. For…
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Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech Took the Gloves Off
On April 28, Felipe Neto, a Brazilian YouTuber with more than 45 million followers, was angry. He had just received…
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The Comedian Taking on India’s New Censorship Law | WIRED
But he adds that his legal challenge isn’t about him. “This is bigger than any one profession. It will affect…
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