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A US federal judge ruled Tuesday that Florida cannot enforce a law that requires social media companies to block children 14 years or younger from using their platforms. Chief US District Judge Mark Walker for the Northern District of Florida, Tallahassee Division, granted a preliminary injunction to prevent enforcement of the law passed by the [...]

Introduction The proliferation of AI chatbots, especially those exhibiting discriminatory bias, hate speech, and the unauthorized use of public data, has raised significant ethical and legal concerns. A prominent example of these issues is the GPT-4chan bot, trained on data scraped from 4chan’s politically incorrect board (pol). Known for its chaotic nature and minimal moderation, [...]

The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation, Mariana Katzarova, called on Thursday for the release of Grigory Melkonyants, a lawyer and one of the most famous experts on election legislation and process in Russia. The statement comes in response to the sentencing of Melkonyants to five years in [...]

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) urged Pakistani authorities on Friday to restore domestic access to the YouTube channel of the exiled investigative journalist Ahmad Noorani, following the journalist’s recent criticism of the Pakistani army. CJP’s Asia program coordinator Beh Lih Yi stated that “the brutal intimidation of journalists and their families must stop, and [...]

Major social media platforms, including TikTok, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter), are failing to adequately protect LGBTQ+ users from hate, harassment, and disinformation, according to the 2025 Social Media Safety Index released Tuesday by the LGBTQ+ advocacy group GLAAD. The annual report’s fifth edition, which evaluates the performance of major platforms on 14 LGBTQ-specific safety [...]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemned India on Friday for its “alarming” censorship of news media amid escalating military tensions with Pakistan. Head of the RSF South Asia desk Célia Mercier stated: At a time of extreme military tensions with Pakistan, blocking online media and social media accounts is a dramatic violation of the right to [...]

Amnesty International (Amnesty) welcomed the “long overdue” release of Palestinian detainee Ahmad Manasra on Thursday after he spent nine and a half years detained in an Israel prison for allegedly stabbing two Israeli settlers in 2015 despite evidence to the contrary. In the press release, Amnesty underscored the miscarriage of justice and human rights violations [...]

Eight human rights organizations called on Kyrgyzstan authorities on Friday to take necessary measures for the safety of Makhabat Tazhibek Kyzy, an imprisoned human rights defender who has received death threats from a fellow prisoner. Tazhibek Kyzy is the director of the YouTube-based media outlet Tazhibek Kyzy, founded by her husband in 2020. The media [...]

The European Commission and the European Board for Digital Services welcomed on Monday the integration of the new “Code of Conduct on countering illegal hate speech online” into the Digital Services Act (DSA) to guarantee the safety of users. The revised code aims to strengthen the fight against harmful content online according to EU law [...]

Chloe Miracle-Rutledge is a JURIST Supreme Court Correspondent and a 2L at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. On Friday, I braved the cold to sit in the press box for the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in TikTok, Inc. v. Garland. This time-sensitive case concerns a federal law that would require social media giant [...]