Under the First Amendment, Facebook is not legally obligated to censor hate speech - but the Silicon Valley-based site self-polices in order to stay generally free of pornography and slurs. This month, these policies came under fire when a women's…
Certainly I believe free speech is the most sacred right to be preserved in a free society, and in order to protect this right, most of us understand that we must defend it absolutely even for expressions we find offensive. It seems, however, that those who presume to lead in the digital...
The advent of social media, most notably, platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, has been cherished by liberals and progressives alike as the dawn of a new age for free speech and expansion of domain for more civic and efficient communication between diverse groups of individuals and people....
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Decisions on tough cases and guidelines are to be taken out of the hands of executives – perhaps, you might hope, to insulate them from media outrage or commercial concerns. But a glance at who is on the board, and what they actually think about free speech, suggests that it could make...
Meta plans to cut 5% of workforce, shifts focus to AI and free speech January 15, 2025/Cassie B. Zuckerberg: Biden admin pressured Meta to censor posts about COVID-19 vaccine side effects January 13, 2025/Laura Harris Meta’s free speech shift has sent shockwaves through Europe’s politica...
The company refused to remove a misleading campaign video on the grounds that it was merely an expression of free speech. EXPERT OPINION BY JASON ATEN, TECH COLUMNIST @JASONATEN OCT 10, 2019 Getty Images Facebook has a lot of problems. Of course, that seems more and more like an ...
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This case has the potential to set a major precedent when it comes to free speech and the social media hubs we all use daily. As such, it’s nice to see Facebook — much like Twitter— making its stance on the topic unmistakably clear. We’ve laid out much of the key language here...
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