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11 May 2018: The Weekly Takedown
Users deserve transparency and accountability, which is why we’ve released the Santa Clara Principles and more news in this week’s Takedown.
The Weekly Takedown: 28 April 2018
It’s content takedown transparency week, as Facebook and YouTube release reports on how they enforce community guidelines.
23 August 2017: The Weekly Takedown
After Charlottesville, debate over how companies should deal with hate speech is growing. Here are just a few of the pieces that addressed the topic this week.
17 August 2017: The Weekly Takedown
As white supremacists take to the streets, social media companies have begun to deny them a platform online.
28 June 2017: The Weekly Takedown
In this week’s Takedown, major platforms form an anti-terrorism agreement, while Twitter gets heavy-handed on copyright infringement.
21 June 2017: The Weekly Takedown
In this week's Takedown: YouTube apologizes for censoring queer content, while Facebook mistakes anti-terror for terror.
31 May 2017: The Weekly Takedown
A leak of Facebook's internal rulebook is making waves; meanwhile, users continue to complain about YouTube's advertising policies.
31 March 2017: The Weekly Takedown
A look at Twitter's latest transparency report and YouTube's new "restricted" mode...and more in this week's Takedown.
24 March 2017: The Weekly Takedown
This week, we take a look at YouTube's latest restrictions and Twitter's takedown of more than half a million accounts.
25 January 2017: The Weekly Takedown
The censorship of a Russian media outlet, pirates posting porn, and more in this week's Takedown.
The Weekly Takedown: 7 December 2016
Silicon Valley companies join forces against terrorism, one Chinese's company's quest to take censorship abroad, and more.
Onlinecensorship.org launches second report, "Censorship in Context" (PDF)
Censorship in Context: Insights from Crowdsourced Data on Social Media Censorship
Blocked and banned by social media: When is it censorship?
In the San Francisco Chronicle, Marissa Lang explores whether bans on social media platforms ever amount to censorship.
27 July 2016: The Weekly Takedown
In this week's update, we look at new features at Twitter, Facebook's block of a Wikileaks link, and more.