A New York state judge Friday upheld a ruling banning The New York Times from publishing documents related to Project Veritas. Judge Charles Wood of the Westchester County Supreme Court ordered the New York Times to turn in physical copies of documents in question and delete digital versions of the documents. Project Veritas is a [...]

In their final report released Friday, the Gambia Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) called for the prosecution of former President Yahya Jammeh and co-perpetrators for 44 cases of murder, torture, and rape. The TRRC was established to investigate crimes committed in Gambia under the leadership of Jammeh from 1994 to 2017. The commission’s report resulted [...]

Russia imposed heavy fines on Google and Meta Friday for their repeated failure to take down illegal content. A law passed earlier this year obligates social media entities to remove content deemed illegal under Russian law. Meta was fined 2 billion rubles and Google was fined 7.2 billion rubles. This is the first time a Russian court [...]

China adopted a new national law Friday for protecting wetlands. Under the new framework, land reclamation and drainage on wetlands will be generally prohibited, as well as the permanent blockage of water sources to natural wetlands. Other prohibited activities include the pollution of wetlands through the discharge of industrial or sewage wastewater and through excessive fertilization [...]

The Turkish Ministry of Treasury and Finance froze the assets of over 770 individuals and organizations Friday on the grounds that they were providing terrorist financing, according to a ruling published in Turkey’s official gazette—Resmî Gazete. Among the individuals sanctioned were 454 members of what the Turkish government calls FETO, the Fethullah Terrorist Organization or [...]

The Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM), the competition regulator of the Netherlands, Friday ruled that Apple’s commission policies on in-app payments violates the country’s competition law and ordered the company to adjust the payment policies of its App Store. In 2019, the ACM initiated an investigation on whether Apple’s practices amounted to an abuse [...]

The Belarus Ministry of Internal Affairs (“the Ministry”) on Thursday added US-based broadcaster RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty (RFE/RL), also known locally as Radio Svaboda, to its registry of extremist organizations. Calling it a “continued clampdown on independent media and civil society,” RFE/RL stated that the Ministry took this action based upon allegations that a group of Belarus citizens [...]

Two Georgia election workers filed a complaint Thursday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia against Rudy Giuliani and One America News Network (“OAN”) for promoting claims that they engaged in election fraud during the vote-counting process in the state of Georgia during the 2020 presidential election. The suit surfaces from an [...]

A former content moderator Friday sued TikTok and its parent company ByteDance for failing to provide a safe work environment against psychological trauma resulting from continued exposure to graphic and objectionable content. The plaintiff Candie Frazier filed this class action suit on behalf of all others similarly situated before the US central district court of [...]

A Canadian federal court and the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba issued a joint decision Wednesday approving an approximate $8 billion settlement agreement between the Canadian government and First Nation communities regarding access to clean and safe drinking water. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned in 2015 on the promise to end all long-term drinking [...]