“According to the Hamburg Higher Regional Court, Facebook is a deliberate, serial breacher of the law,” said free speech lawyer Joachim Steinhöfel after his court victory
Contrary to what the French secretary of state for the digital transition advises, Macron also calls for banning online anonymity
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The right-wing Confederation’s representatives warned that the ban was an attempt to interfere with democracy in Poland
The tech giant claimed the charity’s campaign violated its guidelines
An internal report conducted by Facebook suggested that the social media platform had a negative effect on political polarization in Poland and contributed to a “social civil war” online, reports The Washington Post
We will soon stand up to Big Tech, says Trump
Orwellian thought police have materialized in the form of Facebook’s so-called fact-checkers, economist Milán Pálfalvi writes in a commentary in daily Magyar Nemzet
Blocking two users for comments on Facebook about the 2018 migration wave was illegal and violated freedom of speech
Social media and federal government make for strange, suppressing bedfellows
The company claims it is just a small pilot test
The data appeared online over the past weekend
Even Russian propagandists look like a bunch of losers in comparison to Facebook, Twitter, and Google, writes Czech columnist Michal Půr
Biden met with an executive of a Ukrainian energy company despite denying ever doing so
Facebook has silenced a pro-Poland page with 70,000 followers which posted content on Polish history, politics and culture
There are fears that Facebook could implement mass censorship both before and after the US presidential election
The search engine adds the “Black-owned” label to highlights
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“We are witnessing rigid censorship,” warns Tomio Okamura
George Soros is funding Facebook fact-checkers in CEE countries like Poland, Czechia, Ukraine, and Lithuania
New digital rules from the EU may have an impact on freedom of expression on social media
Zuckerberg calls for more regulation from governments, but free speech advocates are worried
AFP is to asses the accuracy of news content
Czech Foreign Minister says the tax would be only temporary
The US warns Czechia not to introduce its digital tax
It is not my personal profile, says Greta about her account.
Fight or cooperate? No easy in responding to Big Tech.
Facebook to expand its VR reach with Czech game studio.
Regulation of tech giants might promote freedom of speech.
Tech giants to be subject to a 7-percent tax.
Facebook posts are yet another attempt in our perennial quest to stop the hands of time, columnist Gergely Szilvay writes on Mandiner.
Poland will be the first country in which internauts will be able to appeal to the government to revoke Facebook bans and post deletions. In an interview with “Gazeta Polska Codziennie” the deputy minister of digitization, Adam Andruszkiewicz explained how this agreement transpired.
Václav Klaus Jr. has been banned from Facebook for one day, allegedly because of his three-week old post about Chemnitz. Is it a coincidence that at the same time he is preparing a draft law on the freedom of speech online?
