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A Superior Court judge has tossed out a $6 million defamation lawsuit tied to a Twitter spat between the owner of Guelph Medical Imaging and a local woman who criticized him online.

International news outlets on Friday announced that they will stop broadcasting from Russia after the country’s parliament approved a new censorship law that could punish anyone said to be spreading “fake” news with up to 15 years behind bars. Perhaps because progress has been slow-going for Russia, increasingly ostracized nation is also stepping up a corresponding information battle that’s accompanied its assault on Ukraine. Tech platforms have cracked down on Russian news and state propaganda; Russia, in turn, has responded by banning Facebook and Twitter inside the country. After blocking access in-country to foreign news websites like The BBC, Voice of America, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, and Deutsche Welle for reporting information that displeased the Kremlin,d the Russian parliament passed a strict new law which does the following: Anyone spreading what the government decides is “fake” news about the country’s military faces a jail term of up to 15 years. A sliding scale of punishment is also included in the new legislation, including fines, for anyone found to have discredited the Russian military or spoken out in favor of sanctions against the country.

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine and the West expressed fury on Friday after Europe’s largest atomic power plant was attacked and seized by invading Russian forces, which continued to shell major cities. AFP/ MANILA BULLETIN The six reactors at Zaporizhzhia, which can power four million homes, appeared undamaged by the fighting and a fire that broke out in a training facility. But Ukraine accused the Kremlin of “nuclear terror,” and US envoy to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the attack was “incredibly reckless and dangerous”. Moscow’s UN ambassador said accusations that Russian forces had shelled the plant were simply part of “an unprecedented campaign of lies”. Ukraine says thousands of civilians have died since President Vladimir Putin’s military invaded in the night of February 24, purportedly to erase a Western-leaning “Nazi” threat on its borders. In a Kyiv hospital, wounded soldiers told AFP of their grim battle against the Russian advance on the capital, and vowed to return to the frontline. “We were on reconnaissance and came across an enemy column that had made a breakthrough,” said Motyka, 29, who was hit by shrapnel on his right side. “We fought them and killed their soldiers on foot, but they showered us with mortar fire.” On Friday missile and bomb attacks on cities continued, the Ukrainian military said on Facebook, adding that the main focus of Russian troops was to encircle Kyiv.

Johnstone: Defending Freedom And Democracy Sure Requires An Awful Lot Of Censorship Authored by Caitlin Johnstone via Medium.com, Kremlin-backed media outlets have been banned throughout the European Union, both on television and on apps and online platforms . RT has lost its Sky TV slot in the UK, where the outlet is also blocked on YouTube . Australian TV providers SBS and Foxtel have dropped RT , and the federal government is putting pressure on social media platforms to block Russian media in Australia. In the Czech Republic , Slovakia , and Latvia , speaking in support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine will get you years in prison. Twitter, historically the last of the major online platforms to jump on any new internet censorship escalation, is now actively minimizing the number of people who see Russian media content, saying that it is “reducing the content’s visibility” and “taking steps to significantly reduce the circulation of this content on Twitter”. This censorship-by-algorithm tactic is exactly what I speculated might emerge after former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey resigned back in November, due to previous comments supportive of that practice by his successor Parag Agrawal.

One of the most popular cryptocurrencies took the world by storm in 2021. Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE ) was a trending topic many times as it saw its valuation rise. Since its peak, the value of the coin has fallen back to earth. Here’s a look at how much the coin could be worth if it returns to all-time highs. What Happened: Dogecoin began trading at $0.047 to kick-off 2021. The coin quickly rose in interest and became a trending topic on Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR ) and other social media platforms the first week of the … Full story available on Benzinga.com

Moscow [Russia], March 5 (ANI): Russian media regulator has announced that it is blocking Facebook in the country, saying that it had discriminated against Russian media and information resources. Media reports said that the Russian websites of BBC and Deutsche Welle, Twitter, and Apple and Google’s app stores were all blocked. “In March 2022, a […]

Russia has moved to block access to Twitter just after a similar crackdown on Facebook, Interfax reported. Russian regulator Roskomnadzor reportedly said it was complying with a February 24 request from Russia’s Prosecutor General. Twitter didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The company had previously confirmed its service was being “restricted for some […] Russia cuts off access to Twitter | Engadget

Can somebody please tell Lindsey Graham to stop tweeting ? Or posting to Facebook ? Or at least warn whoever runs the South Carolina senator’s Instagram account to hold off on posting that “Is there a Brutus in Russia?” graphic, perhaps forever? Because openly wondering if there is “a more successful Colonel Stauffenberg in the Russian military” isn’t a good look. On Thursday, Graham took to social media to call for the assassination of Vladimir Putin, asking for someone to “take this guy out” in order to end the conflict in Ukraine that Russia has been carrying out for well over a week. Graham somehow believes that the person who eliminates Putin from the picture “would be doing your country—and the world—a great service,” as if there quite literally is not a whole team of Putin sycophants and righthand men at the ready to continue carrying out what the Russian tyrant has started. Lawmakers like Ilhan Omar and luminaries from across the political spectrum have strongly condemned Graham’s statements.

Russia''s media regulator Roskomnadzor "restricted access" to social media network Twitter after blocking Facebook in the country, Russian news agencies reported Friday.

Russia has moved to block access to Twitter just after a similar crackdown on Facebook, Interfax reported. Russian regulator Roskomnadzor reportedly said it was complying with a February 24 request from Russia''s Prosecutor General. Twitter didn''t immediately respond to a request for comment. The company had previously confirmed its service was being "restricted for some people in Russia," and there were widespread reports of throttling. Now, it seems Russia is looking to make Twitter completely inaccessible, just as it has with Facebook . Twitter said earlier this week it would label all tweets with links to Russian state media outlets, as social media companies have rushed to limit the influence of RT and Sputnik .

The step could signal further restrictions against other tech companies such as Google, which owns YouTube, and Twitter. Both have also been under pressure by the Russian government.

Russian internet regulator Roskomnadzor on Friday said it has blocked access to Facebook in the country. It said it took the action following “26 cases of discrimination against Russian media and information resources by Facebook.” It said Facebook “has restricted access to accounts: the Zvezda TV channel, the RIA Novosti news agency, Sputnik, Russia Today, the Lenta.ru and Gazeta.ru information resources.” Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last week, social media companies have taken measures to restrict access to Russian state media. On February 27, the European Union announced it was “banning Russia Today and Sputnik from broadcasting in the EU.” YouTube reportedly also blocked RT in the EU. Twitter announced Monday that it will start labeling and making it harder for users to see tweets about the invasion of Ukraine that contain information from Russian state media like RT and Sputnik. Facebook has taken similar measures. Also on Friday, Russia’s legislature advanced a new law that would make publishing “fake news” about the army a crime punishable with jail time. "If the fakes lead to serious consequences, (the legislation) threatens imprisonment of up to 15 years," the lower house of parliament said in a statement, according to AFP.

Russian state communications regulator Roskomnadzor has restricted access to Twitter Inc, Tass news agency said on Friday. Interfax news agency earlier said the service had been blocked. Earlier on Friday the regulator said it had blocked Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook in response to what it said were restrictions of access to Russian media on its […]

As Twitter continues to develop its live audio product Spaces, the platform may soon take things a step further by launching a dedicated podcasts tab on its mobile apps. According to reverse engineers who search the code of mobile apps to spot features in development, this addition would create a dedicated space on Twitter to […]

As Twitter continues to develop its live audio product Spaces, the platform may soon take things a step further by launching a dedicated podcasts tab on its mobile apps. According to reverse engineers who search the code of mobile apps to spot features in development, this addition would create a dedicated space on Twitter to […]