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Facebook hasn’t put effective safeguards in place to block sex traffickers because it benefits from advertising to more than two billion users, according to the lawsuits. — AFP Facebook Inc must face lawsuits filed by three US women claiming they were forced into prostitution as teenagers by abusers who used the social-media site to ensnare girls. Justice James Blacklock of the Texas Supreme Court said in a ruling Friday the women can sue Facebook under a state law that allows legal action ...

Facebooks Hypocritical Trump Ban | Opinion On 6/9/21 at 6:30 AM EDT Being the owner of the global information superhighway weighs heavily on Mark Zuckerberg. The founder and CEO of Facebook has always seemed to agonize over the fact that so much of Americas public discourse is conducted via the social media network that he launched from his dorm room. Zuckerberg was slow to react to the enormous pressure from much of the chattering class to ban accounts of figures and groups it...

Cybersecurity: Stolen $1.4 Million Not Covered Under Fraud Policy The US District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania recently determined that a $1.4 million wire transfer fraud was not covered under Ryeco, LLC, a fruit distributors, commercial crime policy. Ryeco, LLC v. Selective Ins. Co., No. 2:20-cv-03182 (E.D. Pa. May 13, 2021). A hacker in South Africa had gained access to Ryecos network, fraudulently applied the companys vice presidents signature to wire transfer forms, and e...

The censoring of Donald Trump by the biggest media platforms has prompted a pressing focus on the respective roles of rights, algorithms and people in dealing with such cases.

What has caught the attention of people is the term ‘safe harbour’ which is basically if these social media platforms don’t comply with the new rules, their indemnity will be taken away under Section 79 of the Information Technology Act.

In the aftermath of the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January, much was written about the role of social media platforms Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in amplifying misinformation about the US election results and the violence that ensued. I was struck by the words of Sarah Miller, the director of the American Economic Liberties project and a member of Joe Biden’s transition team, in an interview with the BBC later that month.  She said, “Facebook is broadly seen as the most prominent vi...

Print this article Facebook was slammed by critics for suppressing information after the social media giant announced it would lift a ban on posts claiming COVID-19 was man-made. The social networking site made the move on Wednesday after President Joe Biden said his intelligence community was reviewing the origins of the virus. Bidens move comes as the so-called Wuhan lab leak hypothesis, that the virus was created in the Wuhan Institute of Virology before somehow escaping, burst back into t...

In a recent piece at The Bulwark, Sonny Bunch puts into words a sentiment sensed by many for years, namely, that what once made social media so great has now made

This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech. On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that—in a first for state law—regulates how social media companies can moderate online speech. Under the Stop Social Media Censorship Act—which experts have already pointed out is likel...

Florida’s New Pro-Disney, Anti-Facebook and Twitter Law Slate 1 hr ago Sofia Andrade © Provided by Slate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at a press conference at PortMiami on April 8. Joe Raedle/Getty Images On Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that—in a first for state law—regulates how social media companies can moderate online speech. Under the Stop Social Media Censorship Act—which experts have already pointed out is likely unenforceable, given th...