Analysts: Russia's invasion of Ukraine could accelerate the fracturing of the internet, amid pressure on US tech giants from both Russia and the West to respond
and Big Tech's barely doing a damn thing Washington Post : Social networks face pressure to ban Russian state media Stratechery : Russia and the Four Internets, Shifts and Social Media, Gelsinger Inte...
Twitter: governments made 43,387 content removal demands from a record 196,878 accounts in H1 2021; 95% came from Japan, Russia, Turkey, India, and South Korea
Twitter permanently suspended 453,754 unique accounts for violations of its child sexual exploitation policy — Twitter suspended 44,974 unique accounts for promotion of terrorism and violent organizat...
Zoom joins the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, founded by Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube to combat terrorist and extremist content
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters : Tweets: @nicholasrasmu15 and @evelyndouek . Thanks: @eculliford Tweets: Nicholas Rasmussen / @nicholasrasmu15 : Very pleased to be welcoming @Zoom and their great team...
Ahead of House hearing, Mark Zuckerberg calls for Section 230 reform that makes protections conditional on platforms' ability to identify and remove content
Want this newsletter delievered to your inbox? — Good evening, Aaron Mackey / Electronic Frontier Foundation : Facebook's Pitch to Congress: Section 230 for Me, But not for Thee Russell Brandom / Th...
Google says it has removed search ads linking to sites that charged US users large fees for voter registration or harvested their data, after a watchdog report
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Twitter shares draft of its new deepfakes policy for public input through Nov. 27, says it won't ban deepfakes but will label them and warn users before sharing
but won't remove them Paul Sawers / VentureBeat : Twitter proposes flagging deepfakes, but would only remove content that threatens harm Kate Cox / Ars Technica : Twitter wants your feedback on its pr...
Trump says he plans to call execs from social media platforms to a meeting later this month; sources say they haven't received invites from the White House
and comedy Inquirer : Donald Trump accuses Facebook and Twitter of ‘terrible bias’ Makena Kelly / The Verge : Trump to invite social media companies to White House to discuss ‘free speech’ online Twee...