ONLINE HATE SPEECH

The United Nations on Monday published principles for fighting online disinformation, including an overhaul of the advertising model of social media networks. After consultations with a variety of actors in the field, the United Nations has now publ...

​Rowling, 58, has been embroiled in controversy and incurred the wrath of activists and "Harry Potter" film stars in recent years over her stance that biological sex is immutable. She denies being transphobic.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk weighed in on a debate over Canada's proposed hate speech law, the Online Harms Bill. Musk expressed concern over the legislation's implications, prompting a fact-check request. The bill, aimed at curbing hate speech online, intr...

Elon Musk said Tuesday his social media platform X will appeal against an Australian injunction forcing it to take down videos of a church stabbing in Sydney. Video of the bloody attack, which spread widely on social media platforms, has been blamed...

Canadian physician Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill faced legal battles and censorship due to her COVID-related tweets, leading to lawsuits and investigations. She expressed skepticism about lockdowns and vaccination mandates, sparking criticism. Despite bac...

Andrew Tate and controversy have become synonymous as his lawsuit against accusers has caused uproar.

Learn for peace on International Day of Education 2024, celebrated annually on January 24. This year's theme focuses on education as a tool for lasting peace. Events include a dialogue at the UNHQ and a festival promoting care for oneself, others, a...

The response came weeks after The Atlantic found that at least 16 Substack newsletters had "overt Nazi symbols" in their logos or graphics, and that white supremacists had been allowed to publish on, and profit from, the platform.

Tech entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk's Tel Aviv visit coincides with a four-day ceasefire in Israel's war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. He will meet Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss the rise o...

The Center for Countering Digital Hate also called the "ridiculous" and "baseless" lawsuit against them an attempt to silence others who say things X may not like. It also denied X's claim that commercial rivals and perhaps even foreign governments ...

The Austrian law, enacted in 2021 and which obliges Big Tech to publish regular reports of illegal content, comes amid mounting concerns worldwide about hateful posts.

After introducing a feature in 2022 for users to report a post they considered misleading about politics, X in the past week removed the "politics" category from its drop-down menu in every jurisdiction but the European Union.

X Corp., the parent company of the social media company, sent a letter on July 20 to the Center for Countering Digital Hate, a nonprofit that conducts research on social media, accusing the organization of making "a series of troubling and baseless ...

The amendments would toughen penalties for those seen to have committed cybercrimes including spreading disinformation, with those found guilty potentially facing prison time.

The demand builds on a campaign by the eSafety Commissioner to make the website more accountable after Musk, one of the world's richest people, bought it for $44 billion in October with a promise to restore its commitment to free speech.

Twitter's ad sales staff is concerned that advertisers may be spooked by a rise in hate speech and pornography on the social network, as well as more ads featuring online gambling and marijuana products.

The platform is no longer labeling state-controlled media and propaganda agencies, and will no longer prohibit their content from being automatically promoted or recommended to users.

The misinformation campaign was carried out by a group of conspirators, prosecutors said, including a man in his 20s who called himself Ricky Vaughn.

Twitter has long wrestled with how to enforce content policies fairly on its platform in order to appease the advertisers, users and powerful world leaders that use its service.