Twitter Seeing More Government Requests to Remove Journalists’ Content: Report

By:  The Hill Jul 14, 2021   Twitter has reported that it has seen an increase in the number of legal demands by governments to have journalists or news outlets take down content in the second half of 2020, according to the social media’s transparency report published on Wednesday.   The social media company noted that 199 accounts […]

Inside Facebook’s Data Wars

By:  New York Times July 14, 2021   One day in April, the people behind CrowdTangle, a data analytics tool owned by Facebook, learned that transparency had limits.   Brandon Silverman, CrowdTangle’s co-founder and chief executive, assembled dozens of employees on a video call to tell them that they were being broken up. CrowdTangle, which […]