Brussels Has Opinions About Your Social Media Feed
The same law that polices what Europe can post online now polices how the apps are built, and Meta is the test case.
How Britain Plans to Lock Legacy Media Into People’s Feeds
The public spent years drifting away from legacy broadcasters, so the state plans to algorithmically drag them back.
Supreme Court Refusal in Vermont v. Meta Strengthens Addiction Suits Threatening Online Anonymity
The justices let an addiction case proceed and buried inside it is the end of logging on as a stranger.
Germany Considers Law to Force Social Media Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
The regulators who would decide what counts as “reliable” news are appointed through a chain that starts with the same politicians whose coverage they’d be curating.
5 Tech Giants Let UK Speech Regulator Preview New Features
Five tech giants just agreed to show a government regulator their homework before turning it in, even though the law never said they had to.
Australia’s Under-16 Social Media Ban Fails: 73% Ignore It
Compliance sits at 27% and the model says it has further to fall.
EU Launches Age Verification App
The Commission built the app on the same architecture as its planned continental digital identity wallet. That’s not a coincidence.
Macron Calls Online Free Speech Argument “Pure Bullshit”
The pro-censorship French president is now the most eloquent voice in the West for the idea that free speech, unregulated, is a problem to be solved.
Spanish PM Declares War on the Internet While Calling It Protection
The new European coalition could make national internet laws a shared tool of control.
Landmark LA Trial Targets Social Media Addiction Claims
A Los Angeles jury is about to decide whether social media design itself can be treated as a defective product in the eyes of American law.
Meta Oversight Board Reviews Legitimacy of Permanent Account Bans and Moderation Power
Meta’s self-appointed court is finally confronting whether its own sense of justice can outlast the users it silences.
Iran Cuts Internet Nationwide as Protests Spread Across Major Cities
Cut off from the world, Iranians now face a silence engineered to erase their uprising in real time.












