The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), an agency best known for maintaining a list of humanity’s most valuable cultural heritage sites, demanded the establishment of “global guidelines for the regulation of social media” in a conference on Wednesday to address alleged “disinformation.”
Police in the Swedish city of Stockholm have imposed an indefinite ban on granting permission for protests involving the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an, supposedly due to concerns over threats to Swedish security.
Authorities in Turkey revealed on Thursday that they had identified 613 people “accused of making provocative posts” on social media related to the devastating earthquake that hit that country this week, arresting 78 and starting legal actions against nearly 300.
The idea that free speech could succeed on Elon Musk’s Twitter is terrifying many within the European Union, an MEP serving in the bloc’s parliament has said.
James Lawrence, a lawyer representing Douglass Mackey, said the ACLU is “nowhere to be found” regarding the DOJ’s prosection of his client.
The head of a mosque in the Swedish city of Gothenburg has called for a law to ban the destruction of holy books and texts in the aftermath of the burnings of the Islamic Qur’an.
A Canadian Catholic school pupil who was suspended last November for saying there are only two genders was arrested this week after attempting to return to class without renouncing his beliefs.
Officials within the European Union have heavily criticised Elon Musk’s Twitter for failing a so-called “disinformation” test set out by the bloc.
Paul Fitzpatrick, president of 1792 Exchange, said on Wednesday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that his organization tracks “woke capitalism” to help businesses, individuals, and organizations navigate political risks with a database composed of “corporate bias ratings” of evaluated companies.
Salman Rushdie has spoken out for the first time since a radical Islamic terror attack in New York prompted by a decades-old Iranian fatwa left him near death.
The government is reportedly considering a measure to force social media companies to ban misogyny online as a part of the Online Safety Bill.
Populist Reconquest MEP Nicolas Bay has been stripped of his parliamentary immunity after allegations of “hate speech” over criticism of a mosque development in northern France.
A number of Irish senators have called for stricter censorship to be implemented online after a sudden surge in public backlash against the ongoing migrant crisis plaguing the country.
The Russian government’s embassy in Denmark has condemned protests in the Scandinavian country that saw the Qur’an burned, declaring the “mockery” of Islam should not be covered by the freedom of expression.
Brazil’s Minister of Justice and Public Security Flavio Dino presented a bill proposal on Thursday that aims to regulate social media and punish “terrorist” and “anti-democratic” content published online.
A new index rating free speech across the globe has described the UK as only being “partially open” amid the government’s online censorship plans.
Tiktok runs the risk of being banned within the EU should it fail to censor content, an official from within the bloc has warned.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” former Attorney General Bill Barr stated that “the main danger to our democracy, frankly, is the sort of radical progressive movement” and that free public discourse is under attack in a way that
We have a new form of censorship to contend with: third-party “fact-checkers” who attack the credibility of content providers who run afoul of left-wing orthodoxy.
The website for French magazine Charlie Hebdo was reportedly hacked in the wake of publishing cartoons mocking the Islamist regime in Iran.
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Europe’s largest journalist association, has expressed concern about a new Ukrainian law that could arbitrarily censor media in the country.
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The ReidOut,” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) responded to a question on what he will do to make sure there are penalties for disinformation about elections by claiming that “There’s no guarantee to free speech
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News Live,” George Washington University Law Professor and Fox News Contributor Jonathan Turley stated that given that “the FBI has said that combatting disinformation is one of its priorities” “it’s a menacing
After backlash amongst the media and the general public, a man who was jailed after refusing to use the preferred pronouns of a transgender pupil has been released in time for Christmas.
Police in Berlin have been handed a new set of speech guidelines that ban the use of certain terms such as popular terms for refugees.
Brussels has reportedly summoned tech-billionaire Elon Musk to the European Parliament to discuss “hate speech” problems in relation to his social media network, Twitter.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) said that the FBI working with Twitter to censor accounts is more of a problem for free speech than Elon Musk choosing to kick people off
Former President Donald J. Trump unveiled a free-speech policy platform on Thursday to “shatter the left-wing censorship regime and reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans.”
On Monday’s “Hugh Hewitt Show,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stated that he’s surprised he has “gotten so much criticism from the left” for his position on Twitter censorship because accounts on the left have run into censorship issues without transparency,
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) argued that any government officials who have worked with social media and tech companies to suppress free speech need to lose their jobs and the
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “OutFront,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) stood by his concerns expressed in disclosures over Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden story and stated that “liberal Democrats should be for the principle of standing up for First Amendment speech.” And “I do hope more Democrats will stand up for the broader principle” of wanting “forums that don’t have censorship, that allow for all perspectives.”
Whether the government can force web designers to create websites celebrating gay marriage was the issue Tuesday at the Supreme Court, in the latest clash between free speech rights on one hand and a Colorado law forbidding LGBT discrimination on the other.
A majority of Americans “support Elon Musk’s ongoing efforts to change Twitter to a more free and transparent platform,” a Trafalgar Group poll found.
A Mexican journalist claims federal authorities are refusing to investigate her complaints about intimidation and attempts at censorship by government officials in Mexico City. The allegations of censorship by high-ranking government officials come at a time when several press freedom organizations continue to label Mexico as one of the deadliest countries for journalists.
The massive anti-lockdown protests sprawling across China are making the Communist regime next door in Vietnam nervous, as news from China is spreading like wildfire across Vietnamese social media.
Twitter could be banned from the EU if Elon Musk continues with his free speech reforms, a senior official within the bloc has reportedly said.
Lawyers for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) of England and Wales tried to have a Christian street preacher convicted for quoting the Bible to a lesbian couple, insisting that scripture is “no longer appropriate in modern society “.
Twitter has reportedly shut down its office in Brussels this week in a potential shot across the bow at the bloc over freedom of speech.
A teacher has been referred to the police for referring to the fact that the September 11th terrorists were Muslims.
The Swedish parliament has approved a constitutional amendment to criminalise foreign espionage and disclosure of secret information, limiting what the press may report on certain subjects.
