Topic: Meta
Meta’s platforms reach billions, and its rules on speech, data, and identity verification travel with them. We cover the company’s handling of government censorship demands, its data collection, and its growing push toward age and identity checks that erode online anonymity.
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Australia: Royal Commission Presses Meta to Censor More Content
Meta’s policy director flew in by video link to defend leaving posts up, which is a sentence that would have…
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EU Parliament Revives Chat Surveillance for Thursday Vote
Killing the regime needs an absolute majority and depends on who bothers to stay through the final sitting before the…
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WhatsApp’s New Update Can Shield You or Sell You Out
Used with care it hides what you give away, and used carelessly it swaps one exposure for another.
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Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Failed. The Government’s Fix Is to Double the Fines
The fines just doubled for a law that eighty-five percent of Australian teenagers already ignore.
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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.
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Why Meta Suddenly Loves the Kids Online Safety Act
The reversal landed the moment the Senate paired the bill with the digital-ID mandate Meta has chased for years.
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Caught Again: Meta Says NSO Still Stalking WhatsApp
The company never had to break WhatsApp’s encryption, only to get someone to tap a link.
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Germany Fines Citizens a Month’s Wages for Insulting Chancellor Merz on Facebook
The fine isn’t really about the money, it’s about teaching everyone else to never criticize power.
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Seattle Children’s Hospital Spied on Searches, Parents Tell WA Court
A snippet of code sat quietly on the hospital’s site and mailed every parent’s search straight to Facebook.
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EU-Backed Appeals Center Accidentally Confirms the DSA Censorship Regime Is Unworkable
The body Brussels built to make its censorship regime work just published the numbers proving it can’t.
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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.
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California’s New Age-Verification Bill Frees Linux But Expands Age Tracking to the Open Web
California fixed the most obvious problem with its age-tracking law but replaced it with a version that follows you across…