Tag: Social media

It's handbags at dawn between Elon Musk and Keir Starmer’s Labour Government, says Jawad Iqbal. It's a funny way of showing Britain is "open for business".

G20 ministers met in Brazil last week to discuss "misinformation", just as the country ramps up the censorship in an escalating 'war' with Elon Musk's X, leaving no doubt over which side they're on.

Australia's new misinformation bill, crafted by those who squashed the Hunter Biden laptop story, threatens free speech, says Andrew Lowenthal. Social media will be the truth police, and the chill is real.

The Australian Government is set to ban social media for children and teenagers, amid increasing concern over the effect of social media on mental health, PM Anthony Albanese announced today.

What was so startling about Mark Zuckerberg's confession that Facebook was censoring content at the behest of the Biden Administration was not what he admitted but that he admitted it, says Jeffrey Tucker. So, why now?

Silicon Valley denizens have been heralding the approach of the 'Singularity', when mankind's mind will merge with the global internet, for many years now. Sounds hellish, says Steven Tucker.

Mark Zuckerberg has said Facebook and Instagram were wrong to censor posts about Covid during the pandemic and that the company should have fought pressure from the Biden administration.

French authorities have arrested Pavel Durov, the billionaire founder of Telegram, the world's seventh-largest messaging app, over claims that its lack of moderation has enabled criminal activity.

Specialist police units are scouring social media to clamp down on "hate influencers" accused of inciting the riots seen on British streets.

Richard Dawkins's Facebook account has been deleted after he posted that genetically male boxers should not fight women. Could anything sum up more perfectly the dire state of free speech today?