Internet
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Supreme Court avoids ruling on law shielding internet companies from being sued for what users post
May 18, 2023 1:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Google, Twitter and Facebook in lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for terrorist attacks. But the justices s...
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CBC 'pausing' Twitter after 'government-funded media' label
Apr 18, 2023 1:00 am - TORONTO - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation paused its use of Twitter on Monday after the social media platform owned by Elon Musk stamped CBC's account with a label...
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China says TikTok ban reflects US insecurities
Feb 28, 2023 12:00 am - BEIJING - U.S. government bans on Chinese-owned video sharing app TikTok reveal Washington's own insecurities and are an abuse of state power, a Chinese Foreign Ministry...
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Supreme Court weighs tech giants' liability in terror case
Feb 22, 2023 12:00 am - WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court is weighing Wednesday whether Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can be sued over a 2017 Islamic State group attack on a Turkish nightclub...
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Elon Musk Twitter poll ends with users seeking his departure
Dec 19, 2022 12:00 am - Millions of Twitter users asked Elon Musk to step down as the head of Twitter in a poll the billionaire created and promised to abide by. But Monday afternoon there was ...
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Journalist suspensions widen rift between Twitter and media
Dec 17, 2022 12:00 am - Elon Musk's abrupt suspension of several journalists who cover Twitter widens a growing rift between the social media site and media organizations that have used the pla...
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Twitter suspends journalists who wrote about owner Elon Musk
Dec 16, 2022 12:00 am - Twitter suspended the accounts of several journalists who cover the social media platform, the latest battle over what can and cannot be said on the site since billionai...
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Musk's Twitter tweaks foreshadow EU showdown over new rules
Dec 15, 2022 12:00 am - LONDON - Self-proclaimed free speech warrior Elon Musk's more unfettered version of Twitter could collide with new rules in Europe, where officials warn that the social ...
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German official dedicates legal win against Twitter to Fauci
Dec 15, 2022 12:00 am - BERLIN - A German official who won a defamation case against Twitter this week dedicated his legal victory to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top U.S. infectious disease expert t...
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Twitter risks fraying as engineers exit over Musk upheaval
Nov 18, 2022 12:00 am - Elon Musk's managerial bomb-throwing at Twitter has so thinned the ranks of software engineers who keep the world's de facto public square up and running that industry i...