New York seeks dismissal of lawsuit by Elon Musk's X over hate speech lawNew York asked a judge to dismiss Elon Musk’s X lawsuit against a law forcing social media to reveal how they handle hate and misinformatio...
04 Nov, 2025, 08.20 AM IST
Musk's X sues to block New York social media transparency lawElon Musk's X Corp has filed a lawsuit challenging a New York state law that requires social media companies to report how they moderate ha...
18 Jun, 2025, 07.40 PM IST
Elon Musk's X sues New York to block social media hate speech lawNew York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat who enforces the state's laws, is the named defendant in X's lawsuit. Her office did no...
18 Jun, 2025, 08.06 AM IST
Hate speech on X spiked in the months after Elon Musk's purchase, study findsPrevious studies have indicated that hate speech spiked on X shortly after the Elon Musk acquired the platform — then called Twitter — and ...
15 Feb, 2025, 02.19 PM IST
Elon Musk, X seek dismissal of Don Lemon's lawsuit over canceled partnershipMusk called it unreasonable for Lemon to rely on a vague statement that a written contract was unnecessary for a multimillion-dollar partne...
25 Sep, 2024, 01.01 PM IST
Israel-Hamas war: 'Dire' disinformation spreads globallyAs the war in Middle East intensifies, social media has been able to spread disinformation around the country. The conflict, which has kill...
31 Oct, 2023, 05.51 PM IST
Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu to meet Elon Musk amid antisemitism stormAn official in Netanyahu's office on Thursday confirmed the meeting. Musk said on X that their talks would focus on artificial intelligence...
14 Sep, 2023, 11.58 PM IST
Can detect and block child sexual abuse materials in less than five seconds, claims KooKoo said its in-house ‘No Nudity Algorithm’ proactively and instantaneously detects and blocks any attempt by a user to upload a picture or...
23 Mar, 2023, 04.40 PM IST
As Elon Musk is learning, content moderation is a messy jobNeo-Nazi Andrew Anglin, the founder of an infamous neo-Nazi website, was reinstated Thursday, one of many previously banned users to benefi...
05 Dec, 2022, 11.12 AM IST
Twitter executive says moving fast on moderation, as harmful content surgesTwitter is also more aggressively restricting abuse-prone hashtags and search results in areas including child exploitation, regardless of ...
03 Dec, 2022, 07.42 AM IST
Hate speech down significantly on Twitter: Elon MuskTwitter CEO Elon Musk on Thursday said that the hate speeches are down significantly on the micro-blogging platform.
24 Nov, 2022, 05.51 PM IST
Musk's entry sparks Hollywood exodus, 'Bridgerton' director Shonda Rhimes, Ken Olin quit platformAccording to reports there had been a drastic increase in hate-speech ever since the billionaire acquired the platform.
31 Oct, 2022, 04.49 PM IST
Elon Musk's Twitter roils with hate speech as trolls test new limitsTwitter has long wrestled with how to enforce content policies fairly on its platform in order to appease the advertisers, users and powerf...
29 Oct, 2022, 09.33 AM IST
Facebook fails again to detect hate speech in adsFacebook and its parent company Meta flopped once again in a test of how well they could detect obviously violent hate speech in advertisem...
09 Jun, 2022, 08.28 PM IST
Ravi Shankar Prasad writes to Zuckerberg; condemns internal ideology war at FacebookThe letter sent on September 1 and reviewed by ET has also said that before the run-up to the 2019 General Elections, there was a concerted...
01 Sep, 2020, 08.32 PM IST
Officials debate whether India should have its own social media content moderation rulesIndia provides immunity, or safe harbour, to intermediaries under Section 79(2) of the I-T Act on the condition that the platforms do not m...
01 Sep, 2020, 07.11 AM IST
View: Why is BJP not bristling at what Facebook’s Ankhi Das has to say about BJP leaders and the BJP government?Facebook has steadfastly refused to accept the responsibility for content that a publisher, such as a mainstream news organisation or a new...
21 Aug, 2020, 07.51 PM IST