- Guest Lecture by Prof. Tim R. Samples on The Rules of Digital Platforms: Introducing the 1999-2025 LDT Corpus
- DeepSeek Holds Developers Responsible for End-User Compliance
- WeChat Drops the Word ‘Permanent’ from Deletion Promise
- Spotify Can Allow Prediction Market Advertisements
- Meta is Taking Measures to Prevent Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
- Mistral AI Ease Up Data Usage: User Data and Search Results Now Used for Training
- YouTube Broadens Controversial Topics While Removing Euthanasia From the List
- YouTube Expands the Scope of Legal Disclosure Obligations
- Twitch Relativised Minimum-Age Requirement for Accessing Their Services
- Meta Has Streamlined its Community Guidelines Regarding the Inauthentic Behaviour
- TikTok Revises Community Guidelines, Removing “Trustworthy” From Platform Goals and Expanding Policies on AI-Generated Endorsement and Creators’ Responsibilities
- Spotify Uses Personal Data for Training Algorithmic and Machine Learning Models
- Bluesky Expands Community Guidelines with Detailed Rules on Child Sexual Abuse, AI Deepfakes, and Allowed Contexts
- It’s Now Possible To Send & Receive Messages on Spotify but They Will be Collected and Processed by the Platform
- Pinterest Bans Nudity Completely
- Meta Lifts Restrictions on Imagery Depicting Violence and Death
- Race and Gender Identity References Disappear From LinkedIn’s Harassment Guidelines
- YouTube Removes Ban on Election Fraud Claims
- From “Hate Speech” to “Hateful Conduct”
- LinkedIn Restricts Political Advertising
- LinkedIn Shares User Data with Microsoft and Advises Users not to Provide Sensitive Information
- Telegram expands cooperation with authorities beyond the scope of terrorism
- Will the arrest of Telegram’s CEO in France have implications for platform regulation, in the EU and elsewhere?
- PGA starts tracking Threads, Bluesky and Truth Social
- Meta to label AI generated content on Facebook, Instagram and Threads
- Meta redefines glorification of dangerous entities
- End of Year Frenzy at Meta: Multiple changes to Facebook’s and Instagram’s Community Guidelines
- X (formerly Twitter) softens its violent speech policy
- Meta changes its policy on sadistic imagery and violence as the Israeli–Palestinian conflict escalates
- Re-Launch of Platform Governance Archive (PGA): Datasets, downloads and data paper, new website and collaboration with OTA
- YouTube now permitting misinformation about US elections
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