Ukraine
EU Targets Telegram: Could the Messaging App Face New Censorship Orders?
Regulators push to declare Telegram a very large online platform, enabling control over content under the new censorship law.
TikTok “Ban” Is Reignited After Getting Wedged Into Ukraine and Israel Funding Bill
The House’s TikTok ban, embedded in a broader foreign aid package, forces the Senate to reconsider its stance.
State Department Wants To Use Video Games To Tackle Ukraine “Disinformation”
New funding for shaping online narratives.
Russia To Expand Its Surveillance Network, Plans To Tap Into Private Surveillance Networks, Roll Out Facial Recognition
An escalation in the removal of privacy.
Lobbyists Call For Increased Digital ID Funding
Influential groups are pushing for more infrastructure related to digital ID.
EU Rep Says Fighting “Disinformation” About Ukraine is “High Priority”
Calling for a crackdown.
EU Commissioner Věra Jourová Threatens X Over “Disinformation” and Tells Big Tech “We Expect More”
While declaring that it wants to combat, among other kinds, “pro-Kremlin disinformation,” the EU is acting suspiciously, and ironically, like the Kremlin of yore: there are arbitrary accusations flying around against (this time social) media, and of course, there are threats. One by one, major
Elizabeth Warren Uses Debunked Starlink Ukraine Story To Call For Congress To Investigate Elon Musk
Senator Warren uses every possible opportunity to investigate Elon Musk.
MembersHow The FBI Worked With Ukrainian Intelligence To Pressure Big Tech to Censor Americans
US citizens were targeted
Google Likes To Say Fact-Checkers It Uses Are “Independent.” But It Also Funds Them.
Google’s definition of “independent” leaves much to be desired.
Author Elizabeth Gilbert Cancels Herself
Gilbert preemptively withdrew her latest novel to avoid criticism for setting it in Russia.
FBI Flagged Twitter Accounts Of American Journalists Over Ukraine War Disinformation
More First Amendment concerns.