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US jury verdicts against Meta, Google tee up fight over tech liability shieldTech giants Meta and Google have been found liable in US courts for harm caused to young users. Juries awarded millions in damages in cases...
MoodX VIP, Koyal Playpro, Jugnu and more: More OTT platforms banned by Government for streaming obscene content. Here's the complete listMoodX VIP, Koyal Playpro, Digi Movieplex, Feel and Jugnu have been banned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) for streami...
Arguments to begin in key US social media addiction trialArguments are set to begin Monday in a landmark US trial that could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberat...
Social media giants Alphabet, ByteDance and Meta face landmark trial over addiction claimsDefendants in the suit are Alphabet, ByteDance and Meta, the tech titans behind YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. Meta cofounder and chief exe...
Lawyer argues Meta can't be held liable for gunmaker's Instagram posts in Uvalde families' lawsuitThe families sued Meta in Los Angeles in May 2024, saying the social media platform failed to enforce its own rules forbidding firearms adv...
Why facts held Mark Zuckerberg's Meta backMark Zuckerberg announced Meta's cessation of fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, citing philosophical and resource burdens. Critics a...
US Supreme Court weighs suit against Twitter over 2017 Istanbul massacreRelatives of Nawras Alassaf accused Twitter of aiding and abetting the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the January 1,...
Section 230: Everything you must know about the rule that shaped the internetSection 230 says that if someone publishes news that anyone feels wronged by on Facebook or any other platform, the person cannot sue the p...
US Supreme Court weighs liability shield for internet giantsThe tech industry is facing criticism from the left for not doing enough to remove harmful content from the internet and from the right for...
Twitter faces claim it benefited from child sex traffickingThe remainder of the claims fail, either because the plaintiffs alleged them inadequately or because they’re blocked by the Communications ...
Biden revokes Trump order that sought to limit social media protectionsDonald Trump's executive order shielded the social media companies, such as Facebook and Twitter, from liability for content posted by thei...
Tech's liability shield under fire: 26 words and what's at stakeThe measure -- just 26 words known as Section 230 -- now faces its biggest reckoning since it was included in the Communications Decency Ac...
Facebook, Twitter CEOs to testify Tuesday to U.S. Senate panel over content moderation decisionsBiden, now President-elect, has also said he favors repealing Section 230. Congressional Democrats, however, prefer a more deliberate appro...
What's in the US law protecting internet companies - and can it be changed?The technology industry and others have long held that Section 230 is a crucial protection, though the statute has become increasingly cont...
Facebook, Twitter, Google CEOs will defend law protecting tech platforms before U.S. Senate panelFacebook Inc's Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter Inc's Jack Dorsey and Google's Sundar Pichai will tell the committee chaired by Republican Senator ...
Google, Facebook CEOs could face subpoena from Senate PanelUnder committee rules, if the ranking member doesn’t agree to a subpoena request from the chairman, the chairman can call for a full commit...
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak files lawsuit against YouTube over bitcoin scam videos using his name as baitWozniak and 17 other victims filed a lawsuit against YouTube.