Tag: censorship

• Are LLMs Stifling Political Speech? An Assessment of How AI Models Protect Free Expression | Oversight Board

  July 17, 2026

  The Oversight Board’s first evaluation of large language models (LLMs) shows that some of the world’s most-used models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta https://www.oversightboard.com/news/are-llms-stifling-political-speech-an-assessment-of-how-ai-models-protect-free-expression/ more ›

• We Failed The Misinformation Fight. Now What?

  December 13, 2025

  Defending democracy in the digital age will require moving beyond the focus of fighting online misinformation. https://www.noemamag.com/we-failed-the-misinformation-fight-now-what more ›

• ‘Entartete Kunst’: The Nazis’ inventory of ‘degenerate art’ · V&A

  December 13, 2025

  The V&A holds the only document detailing the full extent of the Nazis’ systematic purging of German museums and public collections from 1937. Created at the heart of the Nazi… more ›

• The chaos and confusion of itch.io and Steam’s abrupt adult game ban | The Verge

  October 14, 2025

  In response to pressure from its payment processors, itch.io had a broad swath of adult content on its platform targeted and removed. https://www.theverge.com/games/715299/itchio-games-delisting-payment-processor-paypal more ›

• Amnesty says Pakistan spying on millions through phone-tapping, firewall

  September 10, 2025

  Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using a phone-tapping system and a Chinese-built internet firewall that censors social media, in one of the most comprehensive examples of state… more ›

• Inside the Crackdown: Kyrgyzstan’s Preemptive Assault on Investigative Journalism

  September 5, 2025

  In Kyrgyzstan, authorities are no longer just reacting to stories — they are trying to stop them before they are told, dismantling entire newsrooms and effectively criminalizing journalism. https://www.occrp.org/en/project/uncensored-the-kyrgyzstan-project/inside-the-crackdown-kyrgyzstans-preemptive-assault-on-investigative-journalism?utm_source=social&utm_medium=bluesky more ›

• Maneuvering the Algorithm: How Chinese Women Are Hacking Censorship to Keep Female Voices Alive

  August 25, 2025

  Using innocuous comments, Chinese women are helping each other speak out and stay visible in a system that’s designed to silence them. https://open.substack.com/pub/pekingquack/p/maneuvering-the-algorithm-how-chinese?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=oj2p5 more ›

• For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible

  August 15, 2025

  In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science/brain-neuroscience-computers-speech.html?utm_source=semafor more ›

• Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes

  August 11, 2025

  Elon Musk’s xAI launched a Grok chatbot feature that creates nonconsensual nudes of celebrities despite efforts to purge this content from the internet. https://www.theverge.com/internet-censorship/756831/grok-spicy-videos-nonconsensual-deepfakes-online-safety more ›

• What’s a smut peddler to do these days?

  August 10, 2025

  In the aftermath of Steam and itch pulling thousands of pages of adult content, their creators are speaking about their experiences making a living selling smut. more ›