Twitter New It Rules

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter copycat app, Threads, as a "friendly" refuge for public discourse online. The company said it would hold users of the new Threads app to the same rules it maintains on its photo and video-sharing social media service, Instagram.

Facebook owner Meta's new Threads app, meant to rival Twitter, will not be available in the European Union when it launches Thursday because of regulatory concerns, a source close to the company said. The app is seen as the biggest challenge yet to Twitter since the takeover by Elon Musk sent the social media platform, hugely popular with politicia...

Twitter disclosed the number of content removals in a blog post on the same day the European Union said the social media platform would be among 19 tech companies subject to new landmark rules that require them to share data with authorities, do more to tackle disinformation and conduct external and independent auditing.

The White House has stated that it will not pay to become verified as an organisation and will not reimburse employees who buy Twitter Blue on their personal social media accounts.

Meta announced that it will reinstate former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks. Trump, who announced in November he will make another run for the White House in 2024, has been serving a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook parent Meta, on Wednesday said that Apple's App Store was a conflict of interest, joining Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk in his criticism of the platform. The social networking giant's chief executive said the Cupertino company's content moderation rules for apps were a “conflict of interest” since they are oft...

Elon Musk has been warned by EU industry chief Thierry Breton that Twitter could face a ban in the region unless he abides by its strict rules on content moderation. The checklist of rules includes ditching an "arbitrary" approach to reinstating banned users and agreeing to an "extensive independent audit" of Twitter by next year.

Twitter has rolled back its COVID-19 misinformation policy, as public health experts and researchers have expressed concern that the change would have major repercussions as the virus continues to spread and vaccination numbers remain low. The company's new CEO, Elon Musk, has signalled an interest in rolling back many of Twitter's previous rules m...

Twitter said it has stopped enforcing a policy intended to prevent the spread of Covid misinformation, as new owner Elon Musk -- who has clashed previously with US officials over pandemic safety rules -- continues to remake its content moderation pol

Slovenia's ruling Freedom Movement party (GS) said Saturday it had decided to stop using Twitter over concerns the social network was being used to spread fake news and hate speech.

Twitter's decision to shut down its Brussels office and the laying off of thousands of employees are drawing concerns on whether the company can comply with new tough European Union rules against illegal online content, EU justice chief said.

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking to implead Twitter's new owner Elon Musk in a petition that challenging the suspension of a user's account for allegedly violating the platform's rules. The court dismissed the plea with Rs. 25,000 costs, and Justice Yashwant Varma termed the application to be "thoroughly misconceived".

The new amendments to IT rules impose a legal obligation on social media companies to take all out efforts to prevent barred content and misinformation, the government said on Saturday making it clear that platforms such as Twitter and Facebook operating in India will have to abide by local laws and constitutional rights of Indian users.

Junior Information Technology (IT) Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday said the latest amendment of IT rules will put more definite due diligence obligations on social media companies to make efforts that no unlawful content or misinformation is posted on their platforms.

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover deal was completed on Thursday, but the Indian government continues to expect the firm to comply with the country's IT rules, according to MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The government is expected to release amended IT rules after months of consultation, the minister said on Friday.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has pitched Meta's Twitter copycat app, Threads, as a "friendly" refuge for public discourse online. The company said it would hold users of the new Threads app to the same rules it maintains on its photo and video-sharing social media service, Instagram.

Facebook owner Meta's new Threads app, meant to rival Twitter, will not be available in the European Union when it launches Thursday because of regulatory concerns, a source close to the company said. The app is seen as the biggest challenge yet to Twitter since the takeover by Elon Musk sent the social media platform, hugely popular with politicia...

Twitter disclosed the number of content removals in a blog post on the same day the European Union said the social media platform would be among 19 tech companies subject to new landmark rules that require them to share data with authorities, do more to tackle disinformation and conduct external and independent auditing.

The White House has stated that it will not pay to become verified as an organisation and will not reimburse employees who buy Twitter Blue on their personal social media accounts.

Meta announced that it will reinstate former US President Donald Trump's Facebook and Instagram accounts in the coming weeks. Trump, who announced in November he will make another run for the White House in 2024, has been serving a two-year suspension after the deadly Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook parent Meta, on Wednesday said that Apple's App Store was a conflict of interest, joining Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk in his criticism of the platform. The social networking giant's chief executive said the Cupertino company's content moderation rules for apps were a “conflict of interest” since they are oft...

Elon Musk has been warned by EU industry chief Thierry Breton that Twitter could face a ban in the region unless he abides by its strict rules on content moderation. The checklist of rules includes ditching an "arbitrary" approach to reinstating banned users and agreeing to an "extensive independent audit" of Twitter by next year.

Twitter has rolled back its COVID-19 misinformation policy, as public health experts and researchers have expressed concern that the change would have major repercussions as the virus continues to spread and vaccination numbers remain low. The company's new CEO, Elon Musk, has signalled an interest in rolling back many of Twitter's previous rules m...

Twitter said it has stopped enforcing a policy intended to prevent the spread of Covid misinformation, as new owner Elon Musk -- who has clashed previously with US officials over pandemic safety rules -- continues to remake its content moderation pol

Slovenia's ruling Freedom Movement party (GS) said Saturday it had decided to stop using Twitter over concerns the social network was being used to spread fake news and hate speech.

Twitter's decision to shut down its Brussels office and the laying off of thousands of employees are drawing concerns on whether the company can comply with new tough European Union rules against illegal online content, EU justice chief said.

The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking to implead Twitter's new owner Elon Musk in a petition that challenging the suspension of a user's account for allegedly violating the platform's rules. The court dismissed the plea with Rs. 25,000 costs, and Justice Yashwant Varma termed the application to be "thoroughly misconceived".

The new amendments to IT rules impose a legal obligation on social media companies to take all out efforts to prevent barred content and misinformation, the government said on Saturday making it clear that platforms such as Twitter and Facebook operating in India will have to abide by local laws and constitutional rights of Indian users.

Junior Information Technology (IT) Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Saturday said the latest amendment of IT rules will put more definite due diligence obligations on social media companies to make efforts that no unlawful content or misinformation is posted on their platforms.

Elon Musk's Twitter takeover deal was completed on Thursday, but the Indian government continues to expect the firm to comply with the country's IT rules, according to MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The government is expected to release amended IT rules after months of consultation, the minister said on Friday.