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The UN rights chief declared that regulating online hate speech and harmful content is not censorship. Meta recently ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday will hold a hearing on the ban of TikTok, which carries implications on the global ...

Miss Universe Malta, Beatrice Njoya, had a touching story to share about her son and his mature approach to hate speech ...

The announcement by Mark Zuckerberg that Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and Threads, will dramatically overhaul its approach to content moderation on the eve of the second Trump ...

The changes he’s making to appease Donald Trump won’t fix the ways Facebook is harmful to our civic and political life.

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As per the new policy, it is now okay to call gay and trans people ‘mentally ill’ and refer to women as ‘household objects’ ...

Elon Musk's focus on the United Kingdom's child sex abuse scandal is underlining why the First Amendment is so important.

The View" co-stars Alyssa Farah Griffin and Joy Behar sparred over Meta’s recent decision to end its fact-checking program to ...

A former school leader is suing a former colleague, the school board and the district. Eric Eiswert, the former principal of ...

The full impact of Meta’s “community management” approach to moderation remains to be seen, but social media creators will ...