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Twitter loses its legal protection in India: What it could mean for the platform and brands
Will Twitter’s legal indemnity impact brands in India?
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Big Tech got a big win as the Supreme Court stayed out of the Section 230 fight, leaving intact the legal shield Trump raged against
Donald Trump frequently criticized Section 230, which gives Big Tech companies legal protection ove…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Sen. Ron Wyden accused Trump of 'working the refs' by pulling the renomination of an FCC commissioner who had questioned the president's executive order targeting social media companies
Wyden helped write the bill that fueled the modern internet and has drawn Trump's ire for the legal…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Trump got hit with another lawsuit over his executive order targeting social media companies — this time from voting rights groups who say he's suppressing accurate election info
The lawsuit also accused Trump of illegally retaliating against Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram fo…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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The CEOs of Facebook, Google, and Twitter will all testify before Congress, days before the election, over legal protections for internet companies
Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and Jack Dorsey are set to appear virtually before Senators on Octo…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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The Trump administration was just hit with the first lawsuit challenging its executive order targeting social-media companies
The lawsuit argues that Trump's executive order violates the First Amendment.
Bryan Pietsch
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Facebook, Twitter slam Trump's executive order on social media
San Francisco, May 29 (IANS) Far from expanding the scope of free speech online, US President Donal…
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Trump plans to sign an executive order 'pertaining to social media' on Thursday, shortly after he accused Twitter of squashing free speech
President Donald Trump said he'd "strongly regulate" social platforms after Twitter added fact-chec…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Supreme Court will take up a case challenging legal immunity for tech sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Google
Former President Trump and Republicans railed against the Section 230 protections, which shield tec…
Jake Epstein,Lakshmi Varanasi
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Trump floats 'loss of citizenship or year in jail' for flag burning
Though he has rarely appeared in public following his election earlier this month, Trump has taken …
Maxwell Tani
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Twitter failed to remove anti-Semitic tweets when reported, says nonprofit bringing legal action against company
Twitter said that three tweets, including one which called the Holocaust a "lie," didn't violate it…
Pete Syme
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Twitter and Facebook both banned Trump from their platforms. Here's why that doesn't violate the First Amendment - or any other laws
The First Amendment bans the government from regulating the speech of private people and companies,…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Elon Musk faces a legal nightmare and a potential $1 billion fee as he tries to walk from Twitter deal
If Elon Musk follows through on breaking his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, he could be sett…
Avery Hartmans,Grace Kay,Sind…
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'Congress needs to act now' - tech CEOs vow to help Dreamers and oppose end to DACA
Executives from Microsoft, Google, Salesforce, Facebook and Apple tweeted their support for Dreamer…
Caroline Cakebread
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Experts say the ban on PUBG, TikTok and other Chinese apps may be ‘temporary’ — until data protection law comes along
What is obvious is the reason behind the ban of 118 Chinese mobile apps — the rising tension along…
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Trump executive order escalates war on social media platforms (2nd Ld)
New York, May 29 (IANS) Two days after Twitter inserted fact checks into US president Donald Trump'…
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Trump threatened Facebook and Twitter again after they throttled the spread of a dubious New York Post story about Hunter Biden
President Donald Trump tweeted it was "so terrible" that Facebook and Twitter "took down" the Post …
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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Elon Musk tweets popcorn emoji as Twitter whistleblower testifies before lawmakers
Elon Musk's legal team will use the whistleblower complaint from the former Twitter security chief …
Grace Kay
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The irony is, if Section 230 were to die like Trump says he wants, Twitter and Facebook would probably have to bar him
Section 230 is the part of the law that has been protecting Trump's ability to post whatever he wan…
Julie Bort
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Twitter's clumsy handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story spurred enough bipartisan criticism to risk the existence of the internet as we know it
Twitter's decision to throttle news about the president's son prompted lawmakers to call for the re…