Digital Discourse Database

Number of Posts: 2
Posts 1 - 2

Antiabortion group accuses Twitter of blocking its ads, censoring images

Hyperlink

Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 23.9.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, social media, Twitter
Summary | Twitter has been accused of blocking antiabortion ads and asking to remove "sensitive content" from its social network platform. The antiabortion group (Live Action) claims that Twitter does not respect its policy to host "unfiltered debate". Other major tech companies such as Facebook or Google have been accused of crossing the line by censoring content and blocking posts from their platforms. According to Live Action, everyone should be able to share their ideas and opinion.
Image Description | N/A

Facebook lets streams of depravity flow freely

Hyperlink

Newspaper | Washington Post
Date | 19.4.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | censorship, Facebook, fake news, law, pornography, privacy, threat
Summary | Facebook is facing many criticisms about its poor enforcement of basic standards of content on the platform. Multiple violent live streams have been uploaded to Facebook in the past in it always took Facebook too long to take them down. Their algorithm to weed out pornography has backfired when they censored a historic photograph of a napalm victim from the Vietnam War because it registered as child pornography. After much denial, Facebook are finally taking steps against fake news spreading on their platform. All this may be called censorship but without moderation there can be no free speech because bullies dominate the discourse.
Image Description | N/A

Page 1 of 1