The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rules that Instagram is not liable for copyright infringement related to embedded images on BuzzFeed News and Time
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YouTube and Facebook send cease-and-desist letters to Clearview AI over photo scraping after a similar move by Twitter in January
With Authoritarian Regimes James Hale / Tubefilter : YouTube Sends Cease-And-Desist To Facial Recognition Company That Scrapes Social Media Images For Law Enforcement Tristan Greene / The Next Web : F...
Woman tried for 4 years to get Facebook to remove a business page someone created for her “butthole”; the company removed it only after BuzzFeed wrote about it
This is civic tech: Oh look, here comes UpLink … Tweets: Sheera Frenkel / @sheeraf : So this woman was 15 when someone created a Facebook business page dedicated to... her butthole. She spends ~4 year...
Australian judge allows man to sue media companies for defamation over Facebook comments written by their readers
Former youth detainee Dylan Voller is suing News Corp, Fairfax Media and Sky News. — BuzzFeed News Reporter, Australia — Dylan Voller, the Aboriginal man …
Airbnb and eBay say they will end their forced arbitration policy for sexual harassment claims
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Facebook bans Infowars and 3 other pages run by Alex Jones for “repeated violations of Community Standards”; Spotify removes all episodes of The Alex Jones Show
It's About the Incoherence of ‘Hate Speech’ Ellen Tannam / Silicon Republic : Tech firms clamp down on Alex Jones and Infowars Kerry Flynn / Digiday : Platforms quickly pile on Infowars ban, but Alex ...
Apple has removed the entire libraries of five of InfoWars' six podcasts from iTunes, saying they violated its hate speech guidelines
Apple has removed the entire library for five of Infowars' six podcasts from its iTunes and Podcast apps, BuzzFeed News has learned.
Statements from Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Uber on whether NDA-bound employees can publicly speak out about workplace harassment or assault
BuzzFeed News asked major tech companies if they'd pursue legal action against NDA-bound employees who speak out about workplace harassment or assault.
Uber, responding to customer service leak, says it received five rape claims and fewer than 170 sexual assault claims from December 2012 to August 2015
Internal Data Offers Glimpse At Uber Sex Assault Complaints — BuzzFeed News obtains internal data on rapes and sexual assaults lodged …
Florida Agency Classifies Uber Driver As Employee, Says He Is Eligible For Unemployment
The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity says former Uber driver Darrin McGillis was an employee of the company — not an independent contractor. — BuzzFeed News