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Content Moderation
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The Right Coast
Twitter suspended Chinese embassy account over tweet about Uygur women (Update)
Why it took Twitter two weeks to get around to this is anyone s guess, but one possibility is that they were reacting to the decision by the Trump administration…
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Trump allies, GOP lawmakers follower counts slashed in Twitter purge
Republican lawmakers lost thousands of Twitter followers when the company cracked down on accounts linked to QAnon following the mob attack on the U.S. Capitol stoked by President Trump.USA TODAY analyzed…
MediaWrites
Online Harms Series: Government response to the Online Harms Consultation – What harms are in scope?
In April 2019, the Online Harms White Paper proposed the introduction of a duty of care on companies whose services host user-generated content or facilitate online interaction between users. It…
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Twitter Is The Enemy Of The American People
On Oct. 18, 2020, Twitter banned the account of Dr. Scott Atlas for defending President Donald Trump s position on mask mandates. In his tweet, he cited scientific studies, and…
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The movement to kill Parler has begun
So last night I finally signed up for Parler. (I m @jazzshaw, just like on Twitter in case you re interested.) As it turns out, strictly by happenstance, I might…
Mike McBride Online
Linked: Section 230 and the complications of free speech on the internet
By Mike McBride
This is ultimately the nightmare scenario for the internet if Section 230 is just wiped out. “Example: if platforms are made responsible for everything millions of users post on their…
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The Good Censors
When talking among themselves, Silicon Valley big shots sometimes say weird things. In an internal presentation in March 2018, Google executives were asked to imagine their company acting as a…
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Facebook and Twitter Just Ushered In The Most Dangerous Political Moment In Memory | Ep. 1116 – YouTube
After The New York Post runs a bombshell story about Hunter Biden brokering a meeting between a Ukrainian oligarch and Joe Biden, Facebook and Twitter crack down on the story;…
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Twitter changes policy on content after questions about political censorship on Biden stories | Just The News
Twitter says it is changing the policy used to block the postings of a recent New York Post story about the overseas business deals of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden s son…
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Twitter’s Jack Dorsey says company botched blocking NYP article on alleged emails on Hunter Biden’s laptop | Fox News
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addressed the controversy surrounding actions the company took on Wednesday to block the spread of a New York Post article critical of Hunter Biden, calling them…