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Last week, we mentioned Senator Ted Cruz's nutty tweet comparing net neutrality to "Obamacare." It was widely mocked --...

As the Ghanaian Parliament considers a bill that would criminalize being LGBTQI+ or an ally of LGBTQI+ people, and ban all speech on and offline that even remotely supports LGBTQI+ rights, Twitter and Facebook's parent company Meta must publicly speak out against the proposal and state what action...

Disinformation experts have warned journalists that more sophisticated techniques are being used to spread deliberate mistruths online. Kate Levan, a specialist from the Wikimedia Foundation, said the importance of ‘better sharing’ of knowledge is vital to tackle the growing threat. The online briefing was the second in an Open Journalism webinar series, Ground Truth in […]

California’s law, the toughest net neutrality law in the country, is not preempted at the federal level and can take effect, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.

Twitter VP Sinéad McSweeney warned of unprecedented government crackdowns on free speech and requests for surveillance of internet users in the platform’s latest transparency report. 

Twitter VP Sinéad McSweeney warned of unprecedented government crackdowns on free speech and requests for surveillance of internet users in the platform’s latest transparency report. 

The United States government issued more information requests to Twitter than any other country in the first half of 2021.

Twitter has recently received a record number of requests from governments to censor content, according to a Tuesday report by its communications team.

Register now for our online event featuring Rep. Zoe Lofgren » Amid fears that the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) could be...

As you may have heard, today is the five-year anniversary of the massive internet blackout that tons of internet users and sites...