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The Calm app bought ad blocks on CNN and ABC on election night to give viewers '30 seconds of silence'
Calm also sent push alerts during the June presidential debate, one of which read: "The 45-minute m…
Aditi Bharade
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Threads joins X in blocking posts to apparently leaked documents about JD Vance
Threads is blocking links to purportedly leaked documents about vice presidential candidate JD Vanc…
Katie Notopoulos
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Mass X-odus: What are the controversial changes on X that are driving users away?
X, formerly Twitter, is facing a mass user exodus due to a combination of political controversies, …
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Meta's election tools have been blocked over privacy concerns ahead of European Parliament elections
A government watchdog suspended two of Meta's election products ahead of the European election, cit…
Katie Balevic
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Instagram's Threads never wanted to be a platform for hard news or politics. Now it's blocking searches about COVID-19.
Meta has temporarily blocked searches for COVID-19-related topics on Threads after rolling out a ne…
Tom Carter
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Facebook parent Meta’s systems fail to block anti-Muslim propaganda advertisements amid ongoing Lok Sabha elections, claims report
These ads contained violent rhetoric anywhere from targeting Muslim minorities, spreading disinform…
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LinkedIn is blocking the Chinese profiles of journalists and researchers over 'prohibited content' not approved by the government
LinkedIn said it adheres to Chinese laws to operate there, but one blocked user told Insider the fi…
Katie Canales
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Twitter seeks judicial review against new content blocking directives from the IT Ministry
According to sources, Twitter has alleged that several blocking orders that were issued to Twitter …
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SCOTUS is hearing 2 cases about political censorship on social media that could change how the internet works forever
SCOTUS is hearing two cases — NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice — concerning free speech a…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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Trump and his allies are wielding immigration as a political weapon against Biden, and Ukraine is paying the price
Republicans blocked Ukraine aid to negotiate a stricter border. Now, Trump doesn't want a deal, lea…
Chris Panella
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Why Facebook blocked all news content in Australia - and why Google didn't
Here's what you need to know about Australia's media code - an effort to make social media companie…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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YouTube blocks Rudy Giuliani from earning ad dollars after he repeatedly pushed election misinformation
The move follows months of Giuliani spreading conspiracies, and comes as Trump's lawyer faces a $1.…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Facebook admits it 'improperly' blocked some political ads due to 'technical issues' as Joe Biden's campaign slams it for being 'wholly unprepared'
Facebook said no ads were blocked "because of any partisan consideration," as Biden's camp accused …
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Facebook is facing a much more black-and-white content battle against Russian misinformation than it has with the pandemic and 2020 US presidential election, expert says
Facebook won't field as many cries of censorship during Russia's war on Ukraine as the unprovoked a…
Katie Canales
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A Facebook bug promoted posts containing nudity, violence, and misinformation over the past 6 months, new report says
According to a report viewed by The Verge, Facebook identified a "massive ranking failure" on its N…
Katie Canales
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Twitter temporarily blocked the Trump campaign from tweeting after it shared a video of the president spreading COVID-19 misinformation
Twitter said President Donald Trump's tweet containing false claims about children's risk of becomi…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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How Nadine Arslanian went from relative obscurity to the center of Bob Menendez's political corruption scandal
The wife of US Senator Bob Menendez once described him as "very, very hot." Now they're both facing…
Michelle Mark,Katherine Long
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Instagram is going to start labeling content from Russian state-owned media and making it harder to find
Instagram will stop recommending Russian state-run media posts in Explore and Reels and make the ac…
Sarah Jackson
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Ukraine's Zelenskyy reportedly wrote to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg himself asking them to block Facebook in Russia
President Zelenskyy wrote separate letters to Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg asking for Facebo…
Katie Canales
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Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg said social media is 'bad for dictators' and that's why Putin blocked Facebook in Russia
"When we go down in Russia people are losing their ability to actually understand what's happening,…