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Australia is taking Telegram to court over its alleged failure to remove “pro-terrorism” material, including video of the Christchurch shootings, the country’s eSafety commissioner has said. Julie Inman-Grant, who last year led Australia’s first global ban on social media for under-16s, said the platform faced a fine of up to A$54.6m (£28m, US$38m) for failing
Kalshi sent Netflix a cease-and-desist letter on Friday demanding that the streaming service pull the trailer for an upcoming documentary. In the letter, Kalshi claimed that the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.” “Instadocs: The Prediction Games” is a documentary about the rise of prediction markets. According to
The then Minister of the Interior, Wolfgang Sobotka, stated that the building should be demolished and a new one erected in its place. It was an echo of an earlier offer from a Russian MP who said he wanted to buy the house and blow it up. But there was a storm of criticism, with
Apple and Google They have been ordered to remove apps that can “undress” or “undress” people and told they must stop profiting from harmful technology, according to cease-and-desist letters sent to the companies seen by WIRED. On Thursday, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent legal notices to Apple and Google demanding that they remove
The city of San Francisco has ordered Apple and Google to remove dozens of “nudification” apps (software programs that can digitally alter images to undress the people in them) from their app stores. California law criminalizes any activity that “knowingly facilitates” or “recklessly aids or abets” the creation of non-consensual deepfake pornography. In 2025, California
