Fighting words are not protected speech. The test for whether hate speech is protected or not comes from a 1969 court case, Brandenburg v. Ohio, which stemmed from a Ku Klux Klan rally in Cincinnati.

Digital titans including Facebook and TikTok formally pledged to ramp up the fight against disinformation in the EU, Brussels said on Thursday, just days after the new US administration condemned the ...

The number of toxic messages rose by 50% in the months following the purchase of the social media platform, now named X, and ...

A coalition of advocacy groups from around the world is calling on Meta’s quasi-independent Oversight Board to resign en ...

From doing away with the fact-checking program, to agreeing to pay roughly 25 million USD to settle a 2021 lawsuit that Trump ...

A new study by the University of California, Berkeley found that hate speech rose by 50 per cent in the months after ...

A hate preacher who claimed it was better to be a paedophile than miss prayers has been invited to speak in Britain, despite ...

Actress Scarlett Johansson has issued a public statement urging US legislators to take swift action to regulate artificial ...

Scarlett Johansson is condemning antisemitism and calling for legislation to protect the public from artificial ...

A string of celebrities, including David Schwimmer and Isla Fisher, have called Kanye West out over his decision to sell ...

Scarlett Johansson says while she has “no tolerance” for hate speech, she’s calling out the “misuse of AI” in a viral video featuring her and other Jewish performers ...

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Weekly Vine. In this week’s edition, we have The Free Speech Delusion, the rise ...