9 July 2020

[INTERVIEW] Platforms and their content moderation responsibility: 3 questions to Amélie HELDT

Amélie P. Heldt is a legal scholar and PhD candidate with the University of Hamburg. She is a Junior Researcher […]
9 July 2020

[ARTICLE] How Twitter started to control what public figures say online

by Florence G’sell For the first time, on the 26th May 2020, Twitter decided to flag two of Trump’s tweets […]
9 July 2020

[ARTICLE] How public pressure forced Facebook to change its policies on hate speech

by Rachel Griffin The growing Black Lives Matter protests have put pressure on all companies to publicly take action against […]
9 July 2020

[ARTICLE] What could Facebook’s Oversight Board mean for online expression?

by Rachel Griffin On the 6th May, Facebook announced the first 20 members of its new Oversight Board. This body, […]
9 July 2020

[ARTICLE] Social media and content moderation in times of Covid-19

by Rachel Griffin As countries around the world went into lockdown to control the spread of Covid-19, the importance of […]
20 May 2023

[ARTICLE] The Supreme Court of the United States dismisses the liability of social media platforms for hosting terrorist content

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on two highly debated cases. In both cases, social media networks were accused of facilitating the organization of terrorist attacks by failing to effectively combat terrorist content on their platforms. As a result, their responsibility was called into question.