Opinion | Social Media Companies Want to Co-opt the First Amendment. Courts Shouldn’t Let Them.

They want the same protections newspapers enjoy. But they are not newspapers.

Reality is Warped When You Pay for 'Perception Management' (or: Bill Gates Pays Twitter for Propaganda)

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Knesset advances bill censoring ‘criminal’ social media posts

Proposed law, allowing courts to remove content that incites violence or ‘endangers mental health,’ is met with pushback from right-wing leaders, who claim it will crimp speech

25 Tweets Everyone Should've Read This Week

"i do like the emo music when the guy can't sing a lil bit"

Amnesty Scorecard Finds Twitter Failing to Protect Women From Online Abuse

"As our world has become increasingly dependent on digital spaces during the Covid-19 pandemic, it's critical that Twitter meet this moment with demonstrated commitment to improving the online experiences of all users, regardless of their identity."

First Circuit Affirms School's Punishment of Students for Online Social Media Posts

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed a public school’s punishment of students for speech posted on social media. It was unclear from the lower court proceedings whether the students had posted to social media while on campus or...

Belarusian KGB accused of using fake social media accounts to inflame migrant crisis

Facebook's parent company, Meta, says it has removed dozens of fake social media accounts "linked to the Belarusian KGB"...

Reality is Warped When You Pay for 'Perception Management' (or: Bill Gates Pays Twitter for Propaganda)

Posted just over an hour ago...

Josh Hawley Thinks We Should Break Up Twitter Because He Doesn't Like The Company's Editorial Choices

As I just made clear, I'm no fan of Twitter's new "private media" policy, which I think comes from a well-meaning place, but will lead to widespread abuse by malicious actors seeking to hide evidence of bad behavior (indeed...

Trump's Social Media Site Quietly Admits It's Based on Mastodon

Mastodon had originally threatened to sue Trump's 'Truth Social' site for allegedly violating its open-source license.

Even As Grifters Insist Otherwise, Courts Know That Social Media Are Not State Actors Because Of Section 230

Over the last few years we've heard a lot of nonsense claiming that Section 230 somehow magically turns social media into state actors. This idea, pushed heavily by disgraced law professor Jed Rubenfeld has not fared well in court. As law...

Billionaire Bill Gates Uses Money to Shape the Media

The role of philanthropy in Bill Gates’s global empire is well known. But the Gates Foundation’s contributions to media organizations are huge, underexamined, and a significant part of how one of the world’s wealthiest men has built and protected...

Jack Dorsey's Decision is a Wake-up Call: Social Control Media is Just a Toxic Bubble

The state of the World Wide Web (reliability, preservation, accessibility, compatibility etc.) was worsened a lot more than a decade ago; with social control media that’s nowadays just a pile of JavaScript programs we’re basically seeing the Web...

Jack Dorsey's Decision is a Wake-up Call: Social Control Media is Just a Toxic Bubble

The state of the World Wide Web (reliability, preservation, accessibility, compatibility etc.) was worsened a lot more than a decade ago; with social control media that’s nowadays just a pile of JavaScript programs we’re basically seeing the Web...