The U.K.’s Bar Standards Board has issued guidelines cautioning barristers against making “gratuitous attacks” on social media against judges and the justice system, amid concerns that the rules are too vague.
The European Union has been accused of creating Orwellian "ministries of truth" that will ensure wrong thoughts are not allowed in a bid to tackle disinformation online.
Large platforms like X and Facebook are now required to be compliant with the EU's draconian Digital Services Act, which appears set to become the global standard and enable the European Commission to censor the internet.
A Canadian doctor, once at the frontline of the COVID-19 crisis, now finds himself at the centre of a legal battle with Queen's University after being fired for criticising the pandemic response on social media.
A landmark Supreme Court decision on free speech is on the horizon, after federal judges slammed the Biden administration for pressuring social media platforms during the Covid pandemic.
There is a war on for your mind, as we are bombarded by thousands of pieces of information, the equivalent of 174 newspapers every day. Laura Dodsworth and Patrick Fagan offer tips on how to win the battle for freedom.
As the August 25th deadline for the new EU online speech regulations approaches, Commissioner Thierry Breton warns social media companies to turn up the dial on censorship, or else.
The Guardian reports a "huge" rise in hurty feelings of climate scientists on Twitter since Elon Musk took over. The "vicious abuse" includes: "Any luck finding the climate crisis yet?"
Twitter sparked outrage among bloggers by restricting Substack links on the giant social media platform. Jack Watson, a 14 year-old who uses Substack to blog about his football team, explains how disruptive this was for him.
Gregory Wrightstone, a geologist and the Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition, has been banned from LinkedIn for sharing the US Government's own graphs of CO2 levels, which it says are "false" and "not allowed".
