Speech
Facebook “fact-checker” USA Today caught publishing fake news
“Fact-checkers” decide what people can say on social media. But they have accuracy problems of their own.
California Governor Gavin Newsom joins Truth Social
The first major democrat to join.
UK Home Secretary decides to extradite Julian Assange to the US
The US suggests exposing war crimes is a crime in itself.
Labour and SNP demand “health misinformation” controls be added to UK’s controversial “Online Safety Bill”
As if the bill wasn’t bad enough.
Video platform Rumble announces “open-source” free speech rules
Users can give feedback.
Elon Musk tells Twitter employees users should be able to say “pretty outrageous things”
Elon Musk’s first ever meeting with Twitter employees.
Vice President Harris launches task force to shut down “online harassment”
Another attempt by the Biden Administration aimed at speech restriction.
State AGs petition judge for injunction against Biden Administration to stop social media censorship pressure
As part of an on-going lawsuit.
Nigeria plots new internet regulation
A new draft bill.
Google, Twitter, Meta, TikTok and more just signed the EU’s “anti-disinformation” code
A new commitment to curb online speech.
Rumble adds picture-in-picture mode to its web player
The new feature works on both desktop and mobile.