May 22

BJP member petitions Supreme Court seeking ‘mechanism’ to check ‘seditious’, ‘anti India’ content on Twitter

• May 22, 2020

Mar 6

Twitter bans hate speech on the basis of age, disability or disease

• March 6, 2020

Feb 21

Five considerations from Facebook for content regulation; online versus offline

• February 21, 2020

Nov 1

Social media platforms cannot act as government’s proxy for censorship: UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye

• November 1, 2019

Oct 31

Twitter bans all political ads on the platform

• October 31, 2019

Oct 31

Facebook’s continuing woes with regulating political ads

• October 31, 2019

Sep 25

Facebook will not fact-check lies and hate speech from politicians

• September 25, 2019

Sep 4

YouTube claims new hate speech policy working, removals up by 5x

• September 4, 2019

Jul 11

Twitter finally bans religion-based hate content; MediaNama’s take

• July 11, 2019

Jul 10

France approves draft bill that requires social media platforms to take down hateful content in 24 hours

• July 10, 2019

Jun 28

Twitter will now label and deprioritise tweets from political figures that break its rules

• June 28, 2019

Jun 6

Sri Lanka to amend laws to tackle fake news, hate speech on social media: 5-year jail, fine up to Rs 10 lakh

• June 6, 2019