Castan Centre for Human Rights Law

Tag: #FreeSpeech

  • What the launch of Team Trump’s social media platform tells us about free speech

    What the launch of Team Trump’s social media platform tells us about free speech

    By Madeleine Hale On Independence Day this year, Donald Trump’s Team launched GETTR, an alternative social media platform, and Team Trump’s answer to mainstream platforms Facebook and Twitter, which both censored and de-platformed the former US President in 2020. The platform, founded by former advisor to Donald Trump, Jason Miller, advertises itself as a “marketplace…

  • Facebook’s Dilemmas With Hate Speech, Fake Speech And Free Speech

    Facebook’s Dilemmas With Hate Speech, Fake Speech And Free Speech

    By Sarah Joseph, Monash University If Facebook was an experiment in creating a true “marketplace of ideas,” the results are disappointing, naively utopian and sometimes dangerous. Yet the platform has no easy solution for the daunting problem of moderating its two billion subscribers. Social media provides an unprecedented mechanism for all people — or at…