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1 March 2017: The Weekly Takedown
Mar 1 2017
In this latest edition of the Weekly Takedown, we look at Facebook's latest announcement, an apparent new policy at Twitter, and the effect of online censorship...
Onlinecensorship.org launches second report, "Censorship in Context" (PDF)
Nov 16 2016
Censorship in Context: Insights from Crowdsourced Data on Social Media Censorship
Blocked and banned by social media: When is it censorship?
San Francisco Chronicle
Aug 30 2016
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Marissa Lang explores whether bans on social media platforms ever amount to censorship.
4 August 2016: The Weekly Takedown
Aug 4 2016
In this week's update, we look at how Instagram is dealing with harassment on its platform, two political crises for Facebook and Twitter's future use of corpor...
27 July 2016: The Weekly Takedown
Jul 27 2016
In this week's update, we look at new features at Twitter, Facebook's block of a Wikileaks link, and more.