European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has signalled that Brussels may seek to introduce legislation for a blanket ban on social media access for teenagers throughout the entire bloc by the summer.
Danish govt secured coalition agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under the age of 15, the most sweeping yet by an EU nation.
The EU threatened to sanction Twitter following the suspension of journalists over allegedly sharing private location of Elon Musk’s jet.
New York will now require social media companies to report “hateful conduct,” Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced on Monday.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) discharged a nearly 2,000-page report documenting social media posts by Republicans who voted against certifying results of the presidential election on January 6.
A report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California reveals how nearly 500 police departments use mass surveillance tools to monitor the social media accounts of activists.
The anti-right wing Amadeus Antonio Foundation is threatening court action at the Identitarian group after they put up stickers on their office door. The Amadeus Antonio Foundation is a Berlin based group that helps monitor right wing posts on social media
The German government’s demand that social media giants Google, Facebook and Twitter remove what it calls anti-migrant ‘hate speech’ is having its first real test in the wake of the sickening sex attacks in Cologne over New Year’s Eve. Breitbart London first
Pressure is growing on social networks to play a bigger role in finding and weeding out jihadists and others looking to recruit members and plot deadly attacks. But it’s more complicated than it sounds: networks like Facebook and Twitter support
The latest brainstorm from the Chinese Communist Party is a system for monitoring the Internet activity and financial transactions of its citizens, computing a “social credit” score on the acceptability of each person’s behavior, similar to the credit ratings compiled by financial institutions.
Europe is expected to establish a new police unit that will scan the Internet for Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) propaganda and shut down the jihadist group’s social media accounts, news outlets report.
56-year-old Madonna is fighting for her right to pose nude on Instagram.
Police Scotland, which is responsible for policing the whole of Scotland, has taken to Twitter to warn people that they are continuing to “monitor comments on social media”, and that “any offensive comments will be investigated.” The Tweet, posted at
