Kingsford Heights, Indiana, has something in common with a growing number of smaller communities: Its town council is facing a lawsuit for allegedly violating the First Amendment rights of its residents — not at the ballot box or in a church, but on Facebook.
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With the search underway for only the third director of the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission, one thing seems certain: The court will take its time finding a successor for retired leader G. Michael Witte.
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Indiana’s Senate Education Committee advanced bills that would restrict minors’ access to social media platforms and another that would require schools to strengthen technology plans and give parents greater control over at-home device use.
Separate proposals would also restrict phones in schools and allow parents to set stronger filters on school-issued devices.
Meta said it strongly disagrees with the allegations and is “confident the evidence will show our longstanding commitment to supporting young people.”
Meta has prevailed over an existential challenge to its business that could have forced the tech giant to spin off Instagram and WhatsApp after a judge ruled that the company does not hold a monopoly in social networking.
He was arrested on suspicion of sending an online threat via a social media application that was related to a lockdown and shooting at the military college in Maryland last week.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Premier Xi Jinping are expected to speak on Friday to possibly finalize the deal.
Apple said its App Store is designed to be fair and free of bias
It is not clear how many times Trump can — or will — keep extending the ban as the government continues to try to negotiate a deal for TikTok, which is owned by China’s ByteDance.
Oral arguments are set for June 4 in a case involving the state’s two civil lawsuits against TikTok, including allegations that the social media company violated Indiana’s Deceptive Consumer Sales Act.
The email was shown Tuesday on the second day of an antitrust trial alleging Meta illegally monopolized the social media market.
In federal court Monday, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s claim that the social media giant maintains a monopoly.
After TikTok was banned in the United States earlier this year, President Donald Trump gave the platform a reprieve, barreling past a law that was passed in Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court that said the ban was necessary for national security.
A bill prohibiting some Hoosier minors from using social media without their parents’ permission received bipartisan support in the Indiana Senate on Thursday and moved to the House for further consideration.
TikTok restored service to users in the United States on Sunday just hours after the popular video-sharing platform went dark in response to a federal ban.
The decision came against the backdrop of unusual political agitation by President-elect Donald Trump, who vowed that he could negotiate a solution and the administration of President Joe Biden, which has signaled it won’t enforce the law beginning Sunday, his final full day in office.
Trump’s pick for national security adviser made the comment when Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked him about a report from The Washington Post that said Trump was considering an executive order to suspend enforcement of a federal law that could ban the popular platform nationwide by Sunday.
One year after Indiana policymakers enacted a law requiring pornography websites to verify users’ ages, a new bill seeks to further restrict Hoosiers under age 16 from creating social media accounts without “verified” parental permission.
If the government prevails as it did in a lower court, TikTok says it would shut down its U.S. platform by Jan. 19, leaving creators scrambling to redefine their futures.
TikTok’s future in the U.S. appeared uncertain on Friday after a federal appeals court rejected a legal challenge to a law that requires the social media platform to cut ties with its China-based parent company or be banned by mid-January.
The Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accuses Facebook owner Meta of holding an illegal monopoly over social media.