A recent study has also found that female politicians in Europe receive twice as many sexist remarks online as male politicians, a disturbing trend that is being repeated again and again on Twitter. In short, this finding underscores both how far women still have to go in achieving parity with men in the political arena, […]

A new body, the Appeals Centre Europe, has been certified to mediate between content moderation disputes between social media users across the European Union in a significant development for the region’s social media users. The centre, which is due to open end of 2024 will initially process claims from users of Facebook, YouTube and TikTok[1][2]. […]

As the core tenets of acceptable conduct shift in the United States of America at the speed of light, social media platforms find themselves back on the frontline of controversy over what concerns freedom of speech, moderations, and liabilities. Events of the past year have brought to the fore of this dilemma that these tech […]

Recent far-right riots following disinformation have informed the UK government’s deliberations on firmer rules governing social media companies. A more recent legislation – the Online Safety Act endorsed in October but was not implemented yet – has raised concerns because several governments are considering broadening its coverage to fight dissemination of rather toxic contents and […]

There are reports that the government of Japan is planning to introduce new rules about Social Media following the issue of fake news. This decision was made as the level of digitalization in Japan intensifies and the emergence of new formats and types of Internet technologies. According to insiders, one study group has been identified […]

This week a Japanese popular actress ended up as a trending topic on social media after she commented on a newly emerged natural disaster in what many people saw as tactless manner. The episode put new focus on the potential duties of celebrities on social networking site and the tenor of conversation within the nation. […]

South Korea is heading toward its parliamentary elections set to happen this Wednesday and with the existing political divide as sharp as ever, the political infighting has shifted to social media channels. Through such online platforms, the social media has as of recent been associated with the proliferation of false information, bigotry, and even yelling […]

As part of efforts to tackle the increasing rate of sex crimes in cyberspace and the circulation of obscene deepfake materials, South Korean officials have disclosed their intend to improve cooperation with social networks including Telegram. The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) on Wednesday announced that they will seek to ask more social media platform […]

To the astonishment of many, the authorities in Pyongyang have recently declared the establishment of the domestic social network Juche Connect which appears to be North Korean answer to the banned abroad social networks. This comes only days after the nation rolled out a broad ban of all international social media platforms. Juche Connect, which […]

In a decision that has caused ripples across the world, North Korea has declared that there is no access to any social networks in the country, isolating its population from the rest of the.world’s online discourse. The decision took effect today and is considered as the new effort of the regime to strengthen its control […]