• Following talks with the Bangladesh government, three major social media companies have agreed to do more to remove “inappropriate content” from their platforms.
  • “[I]t’s painful to read these tweets — that’s our society, you have to have room for all these voices,” said Twitter chairman Omid Kordestani, defending free speech on the platform.
  • After Orlando, are social media sites encroaching on users’ free speech?” asks the National Coalition Against Censorship.
  • A new tool would allow companies to more easily identify images "generated by terrorists and their supporters" and remove them from their platforms, but companies are wary.

In other news:

  • Lawyer Anthony Rutkowsi asks if Trump’s Twitter account could potentially be deleted under the new EU hate speech code for platforms.
  • Facebook is grappling with abuse on its Live platform after two French police officers were murdered on camera.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jillian C. York

Jillian C. York is a writer and activist whose work lies at the intersection of technology and policy. Based in Berlin, she serves of the Director for International Freedom of Expression at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where she works on issues of free expression, privacy, and digital security.