Twitter New Rules

Beauty brand Mamaearth's co-founder Ghazal Alagh recently took to X to discuss the effectiveness of the "100-hour rule" in rapidly acquiring new skills.

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...

The EU commissioner in charge of enforcing Europe's new landmark rules on online content is heading to San Francisco on Thursday to ensure that the big platforms are ready. The two-day visit by Thierry Breton comes just weeks before the European Union's Digital Service Act (DSA) comes into full force for the world's biggest platforms, including Fac...

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter have been targeted in a new complaint by the BEUC, and these online platforms could face action over the facilitation of misleading advertisements of crypto assets. In May, the EU adopted the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA), a comprehensive set of rules to regulate crypto assets.

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday announced that 19 platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, would be subject to the EU's Digital Services Act. The new, stricter online content rules come into effect in a few months' time and will apply to several firms that have more than 45 million monthly active users.

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.

The first quarter of 2023 has been a roller-coaster ride in the tech industry. We’ve witnessed the launch of several new exciting products from smartphones to laptops, saw the rise of AI-based chat services, Twitter’s new rules got even more absurd, and we even saw a barrage of layoffs across tech companies, both big and small. There’s a lot ...

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.

Beauty brand Mamaearth's co-founder Ghazal Alagh recently took to X to discuss the effectiveness of the "100-hour rule" in rapidly acquiring new skills.

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...

The EU commissioner in charge of enforcing Europe's new landmark rules on online content is heading to San Francisco on Thursday to ensure that the big platforms are ready. The two-day visit by Thierry Breton comes just weeks before the European Union's Digital Service Act (DSA) comes into full force for the world's biggest platforms, including Fac...

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and Twitter have been targeted in a new complaint by the BEUC, and these online platforms could face action over the facilitation of misleading advertisements of crypto assets. In May, the EU adopted the Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA), a comprehensive set of rules to regulate crypto assets.

The European Union (EU) on Tuesday announced that 19 platforms, including Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, would be subject to the EU's Digital Services Act. The new, stricter online content rules come into effect in a few months' time and will apply to several firms that have more than 45 million monthly active users.

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.

The first quarter of 2023 has been a roller-coaster ride in the tech industry. We’ve witnessed the launch of several new exciting products from smartphones to laptops, saw the rise of AI-based chat services, Twitter’s new rules got even more absurd, and we even saw a barrage of layoffs across tech companies, both big and small. There’s a lot ...

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.