Amnesty International charges that Meta’s algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook, which incited violent hatred against the Rohingya as early as 2012..
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Guatemalan courts have issued restraining orders against reporters at news organizations, ostensibly under the violence against women law, because female government officials argued that the journalists “subjected them to psychological violence” by publishing articles about their conduct.
Twitter’s inability to log how employees accessed user accounts made it hard for the company to detect when employees were abusing their access.
The death of rapper PnB Rockd in a botched robbery underline the security risks for anyone with a substantial online following.
As more shooters live-stream their attacks on social media, the platforms emphasize swiftly removing the violent content to dissuade future acts of violence.
A coalition of news organizations, led by EastIdahoNews.com and joined by 32 others, asked an Idaho judge to reject a request to ban cameras from the courtroom in a high-profile triple murder case.
The lawsuit, which has been tied down in court for four years, alleges that Facebook exchanged user data with the discredited UK-based data firm Cambridge Analytica in violation of the law.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Arizona, representing 10 journalism organizations, has filed a federal lawsuit claiming a new Arizona law, which makes it a crime to record within eight feet of law enforcement activity without permission from a police officer, will stifle First Amendment rights.
Journalists Charles Glass and John Goetz, and attorneys Margaret Kunstler and Deborah Hrbek, are suing the CIA and its former director Mike Pompeo over allegations the intelligence agency spied on them when they visited WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during his stay in Ecuador’s embassy in London.
Among the news outlets involved in the lawsuit are the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Texas Tribune, ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN.