Social media platforms articles
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Freeing TikTok: Ending Chinese control of the social media platform would enhance free speech
It didn’t take Jonathan Haidt’s bestselling book The Anxious Generation to alert us to social media’s pernicious effects on children and teenagers. And it turns out that TikTok, a digital application owned by the Chinese company ByteDance, goes viral in the minds of young people significantly more than Instagram, Facebook, X, and Snapchat — and Chinese divestment from TikTok would enhance free speech.
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Australia vs. X: Social Media Platform Challenges Bishop Stabbing Content Takedown
X challenges Australian regulator's demand to remove tweets about a Sydney bishop's stabbing, claiming it breached Australian law and would contest an "unlawful and dangerous approach" legally.
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Social media platform X withholds some political posts in India after election commission order
Social media platform X said on Tuesday it withheld some posts in India containing political speech from elected politicians, political parties, and candidates for office after the country's election commission ordered their takedown. Elon Musk-owned X said it disagreed with the election commission's orders. "We call on the Election Commission to publish all of its takedown orders going forward," X said. India, with nearly a billion eligible voters, will set off on the world's largest...