US District Judge William Shubb rules that legislation’s disclosure rules are not ‘unjustified or unduly burdensome’. Elon Musk’s X has lost a bid to block a California law that forces social media companies to publicly reveal how they carry out content moderation on their platforms. X sued the state of…
TikTok is a lot like the young people on its platform – difficult to control. Earlier this year, the fate of the short-form video app in the United States hung by a thread as several states looked to imposed restrictions on its use, and one state, Montana, legislated on a…
Sudhir Kothari, 36, a financial analyst and adviser based in the southern Indian city of Chennai, has ordered a special five-kilogramme (11-pound) choco-truffle cake, garlands and booked dhol (drum) players. The T-shirts, badges and wristbands that he had ordered arrived in time and Rohini Silver Screens theatre has allowed him…
Culture ministry announces sackings citing need to restore impartiality of state news outlets. The management of Polish public television, radio and state news agency PAP have been dismissed and one public news channel that critics say was politicised under the previous government has gone off air. The culture ministry under…
Musk says ‘the people have spoken’ after unscientific poll on X backs Jones’s return. Elon Musk has brought right-wing American conspiracy theorist Alex Jones back to X after holding a poll on his return to the platform. Jones, who was ordered to pay nearly $1.5bn in damages for defaming the…
Tech giant says it has dismantled five China-based networks of fake accounts so far this year. Meta has removed nearly 4,800 fake accounts that were part of a China-based influence campaign aimed at spreading polarising content about United States politics ahead of the 2024 presidential election, the tech giant has…
The incident illustrates the deep divisions that the war in Gaza has opened up within US government institutions. The CIA has stressed to its officers that they should refrain from political statements on social media after one of its top officers shared a pro-Palestinian photo on Facebook. The intelligence agency’s…
As Palestinians take stock of the devastation wreaked by Israel’s military, Hamas says the world should do the same. Hamas has invited Elon Musk to witness in person the scope of the violence and devastation heaped upon the Gaza Strip by Israel. The invitation from senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan…
Russia has put the communications director of social media company Meta on a wanted list, it has been revealed, amid Moscow’s announcement of new media restrictions ahead of next year’s presidential election. Andy Stone, a spokesperson of US tech giant Meta Platforms Inc, the parent company of Instagram and Facebook,…
A woman who shared a picture of an Aldi food container “fail” has not received the reaction she was hoping for, instead sparking backlash online. The woman took to a US-based Facebook group to share her frustration with a “special buy” at American Aldi stores. Her complaint was that one…
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