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Mark Zuckerberg Fooling Americans, Is "Hand In Glove" With China: Meta Whistleblower
Wynn-Williams alleges that Meta built custom censorship tools for the Chinese government, enabling extensive control over content moderation.
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"Unlawful Regulation": Elon Musk's X Sues Centre, Alleges Censorship
Social media giant 'X' (formerly Twitter), owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, has filed a lawsuit in the Karnataka High Court against the Indian government, challenging what it calls unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship.
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Instagram Tipped to Be Working on an X-Styled Community Notes Feature
Instagram is tipped to be working on implementing Community Notes on its platform. As per the tipster, the Meta-owned platform is adding a new option to write a community note to the published posts. The leaked information comes weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced shutting down of the existing fact-checking programme, citing censorship m...
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Biden Officials Would 'Scream', 'Curse' At Meta Team To Take Down Content
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, recently shared a shocking account of Biden administration officials berating Facebook staff over content removal requests.
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Biden Officials Would 'Scream', 'Curse' At Meta Team To Take Down Content
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, recently shared a shocking account of Biden administration officials berating Facebook staff over content removal requests.
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Why Elon Musk’s X Is Against California’s Law Targeting Deepfakes, Deceptive Election Content
X argued that the Defending Democracy From Deepfake Deception Act of 2024 violates the First Amendment and can “result in the censorship of wide swaths of valuable political speech”.
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Sri Lanka To Amend Online Censorship Law After Backlash From Tech Giants
Sri Lanka said Tuesday it would amend its strict new internet censorship law after opposition from global tech giants, who risked criminal prosecutions for content shared on social media.
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Meta Criticised For Restricting Pro-Palestine Content On Facebook, Instagram
Human Rights Watch accused Meta on Thursday of restricting pro-Palestinian content on Facebook and Instagram, decrying "systemic online censorship" since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war.
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Fact-Check Provision In New IT Rules Is Press Censorship: Newspapers Body
The Indian Newspaper Society on Wednesday said the provision in IT Rules, 2021 amendments allowing a fact-check body to label contents related to it "fake" or "misleading" is tantamount to "censorship" and violates of freedom of expression.
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Meta Says It Will End News Access for Canadians on Its Platforms if Online News Act Becomes Law
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Saturday that it would end availability of news content for Canadians on its platforms if the country's Online News Act passes in its current form. A legislative framework that compels us to pay for links or content that we do not post, and which are not the reason the vast majority of people use our platf...
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Pakistan Threatens Wikipedia With Ban Over "Blasphemous Content"
Pakistan has threatened to ban Wikipedia if it does not remove "blasphemous content" from its website by Friday, the latest censorship warning in the deeply conservative country.
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TikTok Could Face US Ban as Lawmakers Announce Bipartisan Bid to Block App Over Spying, Censorship Concerns
TikTok could face a ban in the US, as lawmakers unveiled bipartisan legislation aimed at banning the Chinese video sharing app. The US is concerned that TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, could be used to spy on 200 million American users and censor content on the popular social media app.
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WPS Office Accused of Freezing Document Over Million Words; Violated China Cyberspace Rules, Developer Says
WPS Office developer Kingsoft responded to censorship criticism on Monday after a writer’s document containing over a million words was frozen, over “sensitive content”. The word processing program that's part of China's most downloaded domestically produced suite of office applications, stated that it had restricted third-party access to an ...
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Social Media Firms Object to Personal Liability of Employees Under IT Rules, Industry Study Says
A majority of social media companies are opposed to the provision under the IT Rules to hold chief compliance officers personally liable for ensuring compliance with the Act and rules. The study revealed that personal liability could lead to increased censorship of content due to concerns of employee safety. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Electronics a...
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Twitter Ordered to Censor Tweets, Handles Critical of Indian Government's Internet Censorship, More: Report
Twitter has allegedly censored some tweets and/ or blocked handles of various users in India.
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Mark Zuckerberg Fooling Americans, Is "Hand In Glove" With China: Meta Whistleblower
Wynn-Williams alleges that Meta built custom censorship tools for the Chinese government, enabling extensive control over content moderation.
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"Unlawful Regulation": Elon Musk's X Sues Centre, Alleges Censorship
Social media giant 'X' (formerly Twitter), owned by US billionaire Elon Musk, has filed a lawsuit in the Karnataka High Court against the Indian government, challenging what it calls unlawful content regulation and arbitrary censorship.
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Instagram Tipped to Be Working on an X-Styled Community Notes Feature
Instagram is tipped to be working on implementing Community Notes on its platform. As per the tipster, the Meta-owned platform is adding a new option to write a community note to the published posts. The leaked information comes weeks after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced shutting down of the existing fact-checking programme, citing censorship m...
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Biden Officials Would 'Scream', 'Curse' At Meta Team To Take Down Content
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, recently shared a shocking account of Biden administration officials berating Facebook staff over content removal requests.
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Biden Officials Would 'Scream', 'Curse' At Meta Team To Take Down Content
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, recently shared a shocking account of Biden administration officials berating Facebook staff over content removal requests.
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Why Elon Musk’s X Is Against California’s Law Targeting Deepfakes, Deceptive Election Content
X argued that the Defending Democracy From Deepfake Deception Act of 2024 violates the First Amendment and can “result in the censorship of wide swaths of valuable political speech”.
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Sri Lanka To Amend Online Censorship Law After Backlash From Tech Giants
Sri Lanka said Tuesday it would amend its strict new internet censorship law after opposition from global tech giants, who risked criminal prosecutions for content shared on social media.
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Meta Criticised For Restricting Pro-Palestine Content On Facebook, Instagram
Human Rights Watch accused Meta on Thursday of restricting pro-Palestinian content on Facebook and Instagram, decrying "systemic online censorship" since the onset of the Israel-Hamas war.
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Fact-Check Provision In New IT Rules Is Press Censorship: Newspapers Body
The Indian Newspaper Society on Wednesday said the provision in IT Rules, 2021 amendments allowing a fact-check body to label contents related to it "fake" or "misleading" is tantamount to "censorship" and violates of freedom of expression.
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Meta Says It Will End News Access for Canadians on Its Platforms if Online News Act Becomes Law
Facebook-parent Meta Platforms Inc said on Saturday that it would end availability of news content for Canadians on its platforms if the country's Online News Act passes in its current form. A legislative framework that compels us to pay for links or content that we do not post, and which are not the reason the vast majority of people use our platf...
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Pakistan Threatens Wikipedia With Ban Over "Blasphemous Content"
Pakistan has threatened to ban Wikipedia if it does not remove "blasphemous content" from its website by Friday, the latest censorship warning in the deeply conservative country.
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TikTok Could Face US Ban as Lawmakers Announce Bipartisan Bid to Block App Over Spying, Censorship Concerns
TikTok could face a ban in the US, as lawmakers unveiled bipartisan legislation aimed at banning the Chinese video sharing app. The US is concerned that TikTok, which is owned by ByteDance, could be used to spy on 200 million American users and censor content on the popular social media app.
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WPS Office Accused of Freezing Document Over Million Words; Violated China Cyberspace Rules, Developer Says
WPS Office developer Kingsoft responded to censorship criticism on Monday after a writer’s document containing over a million words was frozen, over “sensitive content”. The word processing program that's part of China's most downloaded domestically produced suite of office applications, stated that it had restricted third-party access to an ...
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Social Media Firms Object to Personal Liability of Employees Under IT Rules, Industry Study Says
A majority of social media companies are opposed to the provision under the IT Rules to hold chief compliance officers personally liable for ensuring compliance with the Act and rules. The study revealed that personal liability could lead to increased censorship of content due to concerns of employee safety. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Electronics a...
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Twitter Ordered to Censor Tweets, Handles Critical of Indian Government's Internet Censorship, More: Report
Twitter has allegedly censored some tweets and/ or blocked handles of various users in India.
