A newly proposed bill in Texas would ban social media for children over concerns about mental health. A North Texas lawmaker filed a bill that would require all social media users to be 18 years of age to create an account. The bill, HB 896, (pdf) which was proposed by state Rep. Jared Patterson, will…
Proposed Texas Bill Aims to Ban Social Media for Children Over Mental Health Concerns After State’s TikTok Ban
December 10, 2022
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EU Court Rejects WhatsApp Challenge Against EU Data Protection Board
PARIS—The Court of Justice of the European Union has dismissed as inadmissible an action brought by WhatsApp against a decision of the European Data Protection Board, it said in a statement on Wednesday. Following complaints about Whatsapp’s use of personal data in Ireland and a European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ruling on the issue, the…
Twitter Part of Efforts to Interfere With US Elections: Gingrich
December 9, 2022
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The revelations coming from Twitter’s new owner Elon Musk about the platform’s behind-scenes operation to suppress certain viewpoints has been “pretty horrifying,” and shows that the platform was part of the efforts to interfere with the 2020 presidential elections, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In the span of a week, Musk has released…
Elon Musk Exposes Twitter’s Censorship of Former President Donald Trump
The third volume of the so-called “Twitter files” was released on Friday by journalist Matt Taibbi, revealing the social media platform’s censorship and deplatforming of former President Donald Trump, including restricting the visibility of his tweets prior to the 2020 elections, and its relationship with federal enforcement and intelligence agencies. Taibbi and Bari Weiss, editor of…
Elon Musk Exposes Real Reason Twitter’s Censored Former President Donald Trump
Journalist Matt Taibbi published the third volume of the so-called “Twitter files” on Friday, exposing the social media platform’s censorship and deplatforming of former President Donald Trump. The latest disclosure revealed that Twitter executives used the platform’s formidable “visibility filtering” powers against Trump ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections and that engagement with the FBI intensified…
Elon Musk Exposes Real Reason Twitter Censored Former President Donald Trump
Journalist Matt Taibbi published the third volume of the so-called “Twitter files” on Friday, exposing the social media platform’s censorship and deplatforming of former President Donald Trump. The latest disclosure revealed that Twitter executives used the platform’s formidable “visibility filtering” powers against Trump ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections and that engagement with the FBI intensified…
Trump to Musk: Release Twitter Files on My Suspension, Other 2020 Election-Related Decisions
December 9, 2022
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Former President Donald Trump may not be returning to Twitter, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t watching closely to see what the platform’s new owner, Elon Musk, will release next. Following the latest disclosures in Musk’s ongoing Twitter Files saga—which included the revelation that Twitter had “secret blacklists” of users to “shadow ban,” or limit…
Elon Musk to Remove 1.5 Billion Twitter Accounts, Announces New Feature
Elon Musk announced in a series of early Friday morning posts that Twitter be removing 1.5 billion users from the platform in the near future in another shakeup at the company. The new owner of Twitter, who purchased the social media platform in October, said that the removal of user accounts will be done to…
Musk Confirms Political Candidates Were Shadow Banned by Twitter’s Censors
December 9, 2022
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Elon Musk has confirmed that political candidates were shadow banned by Twitter while running for office, in the latest revelation on the social media giant’s meddling in conversations of public interest, including by putting disfavored users on blacklists and suppressing distribution of their tweets. Following the release of the second part of the “Twitter Files,”…
New York Times Staffers Protest for Higher Wages, Better Conditions, Amid Small Breakthrough in Talks
December 9, 2022
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At the headquarters of The New York Times in midtown Manhattan on Thursday, employees held a picket-line demonstration with many donning red shirts and holding signs reading “New York Times Walks Out.” “There is no New York Times without your labor,” Susan DeCarava, president of the NewsGuild of New York, told the crowd at the rally…
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