X getting new office with 100 full-time content moderators
Elon Musk’s X, the company formerly known as Twitter, is planning to build a new “Trust and Safety centre of excellence” in Austin, Texas, to help enforce its content and safety rules.
The company aims to hire 100 full-time content...
X fails to block California law that forces social media companies to share content moderation policies
Elon Musk’s X Corp. lost its effort in court to block a California law that seeks to control toxic posts on social media by requiring companies to disclose their content-moderation policies...
SpaceX settles with employee after stifling free speech
Elon Musk’s SpaceX agreed to settle a claim by the US labour board that the company illegally tried to stifle an employee’s speech with a warning not to discuss job conditions with co-workers.
A regional director of the US National Labour...
Musk promises to pay legal fees of employees discriminated against over tweets
Elon Musk has offered to fund the legal bills of any users of his social network, X, who’ve been discriminated against by their employer because of their actions on the platform.
The proposal comes with “no limit”...
New Twitter CEO expresses support for Elon Musk's vision for platform
Twitter’s new chief executive officer Linda Yaccarino said she’s excited to transform the company and achieve owner Elon Musk’s vision for the platform.
In her first tweets since getting the job, Yaccarino said she’s...
Meta oversight board says calling for "death to" Iranian leader should be allowed
Meta Platforms Inc.’s Oversight Board has overturned the decision to remove a Facebook post using the slogan “death to Khamenei,” to criticise Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying it did not...
Elon Musk says Twitter will notify users of shadowbanning
Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk, continuing a shake-up of the platform he acquired in October for $44 billion, said the company will begin telling users if their posts have been suppressed and give them an avenue to appeal.
The...
Facebook threats: free speech or not?
US Supreme Court justices struggled Monday with the difficult question of whether threats made on Facebook can be prosecuted or are protected free speech
Personally I think the main reason we're seeing more criticism is that the government in the form of Mbeki and his cabinet no longer has the power, Zuma does. That makes it easier for to criticise the government without offending the real power base. I doubt it'll continue for that long then...