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Tech Group Sues Trump Over Order Weakening Social Media Immunity
Jun 3 2020 // An advocacy group backed by the tech industry sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his executive order that would weaken a law protecting online platforms including social media companies that label or fact-check...
Trump Plans Legislation Targeting Social Media Immunity
May 29 2020 // President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, in an extraordinary attempt to regulate social media platforms...
Trump Executive Order Aims to Shrink Liability Shield for Social Media Giants
May 28 2020 // Donald Trump has been raging against Twitter Inc. since the social media platform that helped vault him to the presidency slapped fact-check links on a pair of his tweets. Now, he’s poised to take action Thursday...
Facebook, Twitter, Other Internet Firms to Be Responsible for Content Under UK Plan
Feb 12 2020 // Britain said it would force social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Snap to do more to block or remove harmful content on their platforms. Following a consultation, the UK government said on Wednesday it...
Twitter Says Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed by Flaw in Contacts Upload Feature
Feb 4 2020 // Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with user accounts, after a security researcher unearthed a flaw in the company’s “contacts...
Musk Defamation Trial Over ‘Pedo Guy’ Tweet Set to Begin
Dec 3 2019 // Tesla boss Elon Musk is set to go on trial on Tuesday after he described a British cave explorer who helped rescue a group of boys from a cave complex in Thailand as a pedophile on Twitter. Vernon Unsworth, who played a...
Senator Calls for Facebook, YouTube, Twitter to Lose Immunity If Politically Biased
Jun 20 2019 // Technology platforms such as Facebook Inc. and Google’s YouTube could face a flood of lawsuits unless they can demonstrate their treatment of users’ content is politically neutral, under a measure that U.S....
Twitter CEO Agrees with Facebook CEO, Supports Regulation of Social Media Platforms
Apr 3 2019 // Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said rules like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation have had a positive impact on the technology industry, remarks that come days after Facebook Inc. CEO Mark...
Twitter Basics: Get Your Tweet On
Mar 18 2019 // Ready to take the Twitter plunge? Or maybe you already have, but you’d just like to understand it a little better. In either case, Wells Media’s social media manager, Ly (‘Lee’) Short has put...
BlackBerry Files Patent Infringement Claims Against Twitter
Feb 28 2019 // BlackBerry Ltd. on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc. of illegally using technology in its mobile messaging applications that had been developed by the former smartphone maker. The lawsuit...
Irish Data Regulator Probes Twitter over Privacy Rules Breach
Jan 28 2019 // Twitter’s lead regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), said on Friday it was investigating the company for a breach notification received from the social networking...
Facebook, Twitter Face Lawmakers Over Liability, Privacy, Regulation
Sep 6 2018 // The more U.S. lawmakers learn about how Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. work, the more they want to know. In the latest congressional hearings on misinformation and election interference, which featured first-time...
Beware of Fake Tweets During Disasters
May 17 2018 // How good are the social media platform’s most active users at detecting falsehoods on Twitter, especially during public emergencies? Not good, according to new University at Buffalo research that examined more than...
Court Blocks Suit Claiming Twitter Liable for U.S. Contractors’ Deaths in Jordan
Feb 2 2018 // A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a lawsuit that sought to hold Twitter liable for the deaths of two U.S. contractors in Jordan three years ago in an attack for which the Islamic State group claimed...
Small Quake in Los Angeles Had Southern Californians Lighting up Twitter
Sep 20 2017 // A small earthquake with an epicenter just outside Los Angeles had people in Southern California talking on social media. The U.S. Geological Survey confirmed a magnitude-3.6 quake hit at about 11:20 Monday night. Its...
GOP Senate Leader Backs Repealing Obamacare Without Replacement
Jul 18 2017 // Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell abandoned efforts to pass a broad Republican-only replacement of Obamacare, saying late Monday he will instead seek a vote on a simple repeal — delayed by two years to give...
In Age of Twitter, Libel Insurance Isn’t Just for Journalists Anymore
Jun 8 2017 // Courtney Love spent almost six years in litigation, accused of libeling her former attorney in a Twitter post that was visible for less than 10 minutes. She paid a reported $780,000 in settlements as a result of two other...
Facebook, Twitter, Google Sued by Families of San Bernardino Shooting Victims
May 4 2017 // Family members of three victims of the December 2015 shooting rampage in San Bernardino, California, have sued Facebook, Google and Twitter, claiming that the companies permitted Islamic State to flourish on social...
Twitter, Google, Facebook Sued by Orlando Shooting Victims’ Families
Dec 21 2016 // The families of three men killed at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub have sued Twitter Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. in federal court, accusing the companies of providing “material...
James Woods Stoked over Dropped Appeal in $10M Defamation Suit
Oct 25 2016 // Forget civility. Just hours after an appeal was dropped in James Woods’ $10 million defamation lawsuit against an anonymous individual who tweeted the actor was a “cocaine addict,” Woods expressed joy...
