Trump Plans Legislation Targeting Social Media Immunity May 29, 2020 By Nandita Bose and Jeff Mason President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies,...
Trump Executive Order Aims to Shrink Liability Shield for Social Media Giants May 28, 2020 By Ben Brody, Mario Parker and Eric Newcomer Donald Trump has been raging against Twitter Inc. since the social media platform that helped vault him to the presidency...
Facebook, Twitter, Other Internet Firms to Be Responsible for Content Under UK Plan February 12, 2020 By Paul Sandle Britain said it would force social media companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Snap to do more to block or...
Twitter Says Users’ Phone Numbers Exposed by Flaw in Contacts Upload Feature February 4, 2020 Twitter said on Monday that it had discovered attempts by possible state actors to access the phone numbers associated with...
Musk Defamation Trial Over ‘Pedo Guy’ Tweet Set to Begin December 3, 2019 By Rachel Parsons Tesla boss Elon Musk is set to go on trial on Tuesday after he described a British cave explorer who...
Twitter CEO Agrees with Facebook CEO, Supports Regulation of Social Media Platforms April 3, 2019 By Selina Wang Twitter Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jack Dorsey said rules like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation have had a positive impact...
BlackBerry Files Patent Infringement Claims Against Twitter February 28, 2019 By Jonathan Stempel BlackBerry Ltd. on Wednesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc. of illegally using technology in its mobile messaging...
Irish Data Regulator Probes Twitter over Privacy Rules Breach January 28, 2019 Twitter’s lead regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), said on Friday it was investigating the...
India Weighs Comprehensive Data Privacy Bill, Similar to EU’s GDPR July 31, 2018 By Saritha Rai A draft of a sweeping data privacy bill has been submitted to India’s government that, if enacted, will restrict the...
Twitter, Google, Facebook Sued by Orlando Shooting Victims’ Families December 21, 2016 By Brendan O'Brien The families of three men killed at Orlando’s Pulse gay nightclub have sued Twitter Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook...