• Elon Musk's X bans post about illegal immigrant voting, calls it hate speech

    Elon Musk’s X banned a post that claimed noncitizens are registering and voting in U.S. elections on a wide scale, saying it was “hate speech” and violated the platform’s terms because it attacked a “protected group.”

  • Australian PM calls Musk arrogant billionaire; Musk hits back after court orders X to hide church stabbing posts

    Elon Musk lashed out at Australia's prime minister on Tuesday after a court ordered his social media company X to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney, and said the ruling meant any country could control "the entire internet." At a hearing overnight, Australia's Federal Court ordered

  • Who Will Decide How Much Free Speech We're Allowed?

    In case you didn't know, May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. To that end, the Pew Research Center has released the

  • University shares new free speech policies with ASSU

    The University Ad Hoc Committee proposed new free speech policies. Senators shared thoughts and proposed new legislation for On Call Café services, and a debate between senators before the ASSU election.

  • Musk decries Australian court 'censorship' of X terror posts

    Australia's Federal Court orders X to temporarily hide posts showing video of an attack a week earlier, in which a teenager was charged with terrorism for knifing an Assyrian priest and others

  • Musk decries Australian court 'censorship' of X terror posts

    Elon Musk lashed out at Australia's prime minister on Tuesday after a court ordered his social media company X to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney, and said the ruling meant any country could control "the entire internet". At a hearing overnight, Australia's Federal Court ordered X, formerly called Twitter, to temporarily hide posts showing video of the incident a week earlier, in which a teenager was charged with terrorism for knifing an Assyrian priest and others. X...

  • All Talk No Game? Musk Caves After Pledging to Protect Free Speech

    Tech mogul Elon Musk has folded in his so-called defense of free speech in his recent battle with a Brazilian court. On Monday, Musk's attorneys informed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes that social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) will comply with all of the censorship demands targeting accounts accused of spreading misinformation, according to Reuters. "As already communicated to the federal police, X Brasil informs that all orders issued by this Supreme Court...

  • All Talk No Game? Musk Caves After Pledging to Protect Free Speech

    Tech mogul Elon Musk has folded in his so-called defense of free speech in his recent battle with a Brazilian court. On Monday, Musk's attorneys informed Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes that social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) will comply with all of the censorship demands targeting accounts accused of spreading misinformation, according to Reuters. "As already communicated to the federal police, X Brasil informs that all orders issued by this Supreme Court...

  • Musk says X posts of Australia bishop stabbing don't promote violence

    Elon Musk's social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as "part of public discussion", rejecting a regulator's order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight Thursday, X's "global government affairs" account

  • Elon Musk's X says posts of Australia bishop stabbing don't promote violence

    Elon Musk's social media platform X defended publishing posts showing a bishop in Australia being stabbed during a sermon as part of public discussion , rejecting a regulator's order to take down the content on grounds it is offensive and violent. In a post overnight, X's global government affairs account said the video taken by an innocent bystander should not have been banned under Australian law, which permits content that can be reasonably considered as part of public discussion or...

  • Threads testing new option to let users automatically archive old posts

    Meta has been experimenting with a lot of new features for Threads, its microblogging platform. Now Instagram boss Adam Mosseri revealed on Wednesday that the platform has started testing an option that will let users automatically hide old posts from Threads after a certain period of time. more

  • Supreme Court rejects Musk appeal over social media posts that must be approved by Tesla

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Elon Musk over a settlement with securities regulators that requires him to get approval in advance of some social media posts that relate to Tesla, the electric vehicle company he leads. The justices did not comment in leaving in place lower-court rulings against []