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AA Edit | Arbitrary curbs on social media, speech must end

AA Edit | Arbitrary curbs on social media, speech must end

The global state of free speech has been facing an alarming decline, including in the US where a crackdown on support to...

22 March 2025 12:24 AM IST

AA Edit | Govts, leave social media alone

AA Edit | Govts, leave social media alone

What can governments do about social media platforms? Facing the reality that the loosely regulated platforms...

30 Aug 2024 12:42 AM IST

Hillary Clinton

Free press under open assault in Trump era, says Hillary Clinton

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Clinton's remarks.

26 April 2018 1:08 PM IST

World is more divided than before though its not just because of social media. People were already divided; but all of this is getting exaggerated by social media.

Facebook, Google accused of anti-conservative bias at US Senate...

Facebook, Twitter and Google denied their platforms are politically biased.

11 April 2019 1:06 PM IST

In May last year, Minecraft said 176 million copies of the game have been sold since its launch a decade ago.

Tech on the side of press freedom: Censored articles concealed in...

Work by banned, exiled or killed journalists in five countriesEgypt, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, Russia and Vietnamare on an...

15 March 2020 3:56 PM IST

$Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and President Donald Trump are seen in this combination picture. The Presidents draft executive order was expected to argue that actions like Twitters fact check labeling meant they should lose the protections of being a platform. The order was also expected to try to hold back federal advertising dollars from Twitter and other social media companies that violate free speech principles\.$ Technology

Trump to exercise the might of his presidential powers on Twitter for...

He is working on signing an executive order to make the companies liable for content on their platforms but it may not...

28 May 2020 10:43 PM IST

$Freedom of expression is a fundamental human right, and we work hard to protect and defend this important civil liberty around the world,\ a Facebook spokesperson said.$ Technology

Facebook miffed as Singapore government gets dissident's pages blocked

It is legally compelled to comply with government orders to block pages but criticised it saying the law would stifle...

1 Jun 2020 8:47 PM IST

Parler is not the first social platform created over concerns of political bias. It follows the limited success of networks including Gab and Voat which aimed at conservatives feeling out of place on the mainstream platforms. Parler has become home to Republican lawmakers including Senator Rand Paul, and right-wing activists kicked off other social media. Trumps son Eric is also a member. (Representative Image)

Facebook and Twitter rejects populate conservative social network of...

Parler, founded in Nevada in 2018, bills itself as an alternative to ideological suppression at other social networks.

8 July 2020 4:57 PM IST

Since the misinformation law came into force last year, several opposition figures and activists have been ordered to correct posts while Facebook has been forced to block pages on several occasions. (Photo | Flickr - Newtown Grafitti)

Ahead of polls, Singapore government uses misinformation law to rein...

Under the law, ministers can order social media sites to put warnings next to posts the government considers false and...

3 July 2020 5:10 PM IST

By threatening Twitter officials with jail and publicly contemplating the application of media laws to the social media, the government is putting on public display how spooked, rather than concerned, it is. (Photo: AFP)

Shashidhar Nanjundaiah | Twitter vs Govt: Free speech, interrupted

The role of social media in the current framework is not quite as simple, but whether they are completely hands-off is...

19 Jun 2021 7:07 AM IST

The Supreme Court early this month issued a notice to the Centre on the use of Section 66A of the IT Act and said that it was shocking that the judgment striking down the law has not been implemented even now. (AA file photo)

MHA asks states to order cops not to register cases under scrapped...

Recently, the SC had said that it was shocking that the judgment striking down the law has not been implemented even now

14 July 2021 11:57 PM IST

Author Salman Rushdie is tended to after he was attacked during a lecture. (Photo: AP)

AA Edit | It's free speech vs hate

The life of a hermit was forced upon him for at least 10 years after a fatwa was put out in 1989 by late Iranian leader...

15 Aug 2022 9:00 AM IST