Censorship – MediaWell

Big Tech has a glaring double standard when it comes to web scraping | Fast Company

April 18, 2023

A couple years ago, I received an email from Google telling me that my browser extension, RegretsReporter, was at risk of being removed from the Chrome Web Store for violating Google’s policies. It […]
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Value Pluralism and Human Rights in Content Moderation | Lawfare

October 31, 2022

On Oct. 4, the Council of the European Union (EU) approved the new Digital Services Act (DSA). The EU’s new law regulates social media company liability for user posts containing […]
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Born in the fire: What we can learn from how digital publishers in the Global South approach platforms | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism

October 28, 2022

Based on interviews with a strategic sample of 11 publishers in eight low- and middle-income countries, in this report we analyse how various digital publishers across a range of Global […]
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Doxxed, threatened, and arrested: Russia’s war on Wikipedia editors | Nieman Journalism Lab

September 13, 2022

One Friday in March, not long after Russia invaded Ukraine, Mikhail, a Russia-based Wikipedia editor, opened the Telegram app to discover that he had been doxxed. His personal information, including […]
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Inside a Million-Dollar Instagram Verification Scheme | ProPublica

September 6, 2022

To his more than 150,000 followers on Instagram, Dr. Martin Jugenburg is Real Dr. 6ix, a well-coiffed Toronto plastic surgeon posting images and video of his work sculpting the decolletage, […]
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China has censored a top health information platform | MIT Technology Review

August 15, 2022

China has censored DXY, the country’s leading health information platform. On August 9, DXY fell silent across social media, where it boasts over 80 million followers. Five of its Weibo […]
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What is it Like to Be a Journalist During the “Fake News” Era? Not Easy. | Annenberg

August 15, 2022

Jeanna Sybert grew up the child of two journalists. Her father spent his career as a news desk copy editor at the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette and her mother is currently a managing […]
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How Tor Is Fighting—and Beating—Russian Censorship | WIRED

August 10, 2022

For years, the anonymity service Tor has been the best way to stay private online and dodge web censorship. Much to the ire of governments and law enforcement agencies, Tor encrypts […]
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The book ban movement has a chilling new tactic: harass teachers on social media | MIT Technology Review

July 21, 2022

“This is a movement that was formed online, so it’s not so much that these activists are moving online so much as they are moving the target from schools to […]
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Big Tech remains silent on questions about data privacy in a post-Roe world | MIT Technology Review

June 29, 2022

Google says in its terms of service that the company reserves the right to remove any content that violates the law or could harm other users, third parties, or Google […]
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