SCOTUS to decide on social media free speech cases

The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether Texas and Florida social media laws violate the Constitution. The United States Supreme Court announced Friday that it’ll decide whether to allow social media laws in Texas and Florida that prevent social media platforms from blocking content with certain views, the Washington Post reported. These hearings will likely…

Twitter/X just fired half of its election integrity team

Elon Musk’s X just fired half of the its civic integrity and elections team. X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, is making it quite clear that its priorities don’t lie in making sure potentially harmful disinformation doesn’t spread on its platform. On Thursday, Elon Musk’s social media company cut half of its election integrity…

Twitter/X removes option to report posts for ‘misleading information’

Users can no longer report “misleading info” or misinformation on X. X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, used to provide users with an option to report content for “misleading information.”  Under Elon Musk, that is no longer the case. As The Guardian highlighted in its report, digital advocacy group Reset Australia first noticed the…

Bluesky sees record signups day after Musk says X will go paid-only

After Elon Musk claimed that Twitter/X will become an entirely paid platform, more than 42,000 new users joined Bluesky, making Tuesday, September 19, its biggest growth day. Would you pay to use X, the platform formerly known as Twitter? Apparently, all of these new Bluesky users don’t seem so keen to do so. Bluesky, the…