Follow closely this welcome and really important new lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's policy punishing social media misinformation and hate researchers with immigration consequences.

This is billed as stopping unlawful/pro-terrorist expression, but it's really doubling down on the university Prevent duty, which is about stopping extreme expression not because it is always unlawful, but because of students being impressionable. The OfS is a lousy vehicle for making calls on this.

🚨 OUT TODAY: State of HATE 2026 Our annual deep dive into the British far right. The groups. The networks. The money. The rhetoric. The public mood. 🔎 Explore the report: hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...

We've called on Ofcom to clear up confusion following the ruling that the Palestine Action ban is unlawful. We need to know what platforms are expected to do about their duty to remove 'terrorist' content under the Online Safety Act and how new duties will be applied. Read our open letter ⬇️

Just days after the BDN/ABJ judgment in the UK Supreme Court and the jury trial of Hanin Barghouthi for supporting Hamas - BDN in the Supreme Court decision on whether human rights protections constrain the prosecution (which the UKSC rejected) - is underway: share.google/ZddvG3AwYHln...

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout has entered its fourth day, with the national censorship measure now in place for over 72 hours. The silencing of authentic Iranian voices is fueling a surge in misinformation as pro-regime accounts fill the void with their own narrative.

📢 Free and open internet is a fundamental right: If you're finding our reporting useful during the Iran blackout or any other time, we'd value your support. When authoritarian regimes try to silence the public, let's make sure the world is watching! ko-fi.com/netblocks

Not only risking violations of international law, yet again, Labour's anti-asylum policies get progressively worse, and worse than the previous government when taken in totality, with this latest PR stunt by Mahmood. 87/ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

If you'd like to come work for us at Good Law Project we are currently recruiting four new roles! (Please do share.) 🧵

Weronika Galka: Secret proceedings, (mal)administration, and the courts: RA and AA v SSFCDA, MZZ v SSD and SSHD and In the Matter of the SSD [2026] EWCA Civ 3 ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/02/26/w...

Now a full-length blogpost. “Safety by design or systems for content moderation?” #OnlineSafetyAct www.cyberleagle.com/2026/02/safe...

"Banning children’s access to social media...shifts the responsibility for safety from the platforms that create the environment to the children who navigate it." - Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O'Flaherty

Fantastic analysis of the case by @alangreene.bsky.social

major NYT story on surveillance of protesters - and pretty much anyone seeking access to information - by the Iranian government (the reporting combines tech, china, surveillance & iran expertise)

EU tech law EU Commission preliminary finding that TikTok has breached Digital Services Act re 'addictive design' ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

AI governance should be shaped not just by power, but by participation! Read this blog by our ED Jason Pielemeier: Stitching AI Governance Together: Measure Twice, Cut Once, reflecting on why participation matters and how we can better weave diverse perspectives into AI governance ⚖️

Free speech depends on spaces where people can speak without fear of the government looking over their shoulder. 🔗 Find out what’s happening to these spaces in this week’s Free Flow newsletter: www.bedrockprinciple.com/p/fbi-invest...

Iran's recent near-total Internet blackout should give us all pause about what digital sovereignty can mean in practice. Digital rights expert Farzaneh Badiei explores these tensions in a new guest post at The Bedrock Principle: www.bedrockprinciple.com/p/how-digita...

"Internet connection is a human right, and it should not be left in the hands of irresponsible governments or private actors.:

Reminder that in the UK an incoming radical, populist government would have immediate access to immense, unchecked executive power. And the current government is doing nothing to protect us from that.

Ugandans, Iranians turn to Dorsey's messaging app Bitchat in web crackdowns www.reuters.com/business/med...

Proposed amendment to the UK's Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill would ban under 16s from "all regulated user-to-user services" – much broader than Aussie social media ban bills.parliament.uk/bills/3909/s... HT Neil Brown's blog decoded.legal/blog/2025/12... #censorship #openweb #techpolicy

In this story, I reported how counter-terror police warned the Palestine Action ban was creating "a lot of noise in the system that risks detracting from our core mission" New stats show it drove terror arrests up from 248 to 1,886 in the last year www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...

Given the BBC is publicly funded, this is Donald Trump suing you & me. It’s a pathetic cry-bully attack on journalism by a wannabe dictator & an attack on every British person. And our far right politicians & pundits are cheering him on, of course. #r4today

12 killed, one offender killed and one in custody according to the NSW premier at ongoing press conference. Thoughts are with Australia’s jewish community as they celebrate Hanukkah. The investigation is just beginning - there are things we don’t have answers to.

LISTEN: Those “year-in-review” insights from your apps might seem fun to see and share, but they’re a symptom of the surveillance culture that permeates the internet and threatens your privacy, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social told @KCBSRadio.bsky.social. www.audacy.com/podcast/kcb...

Attention #DigitalServicesAct nerds, we've published a position paper for consultation on Article 21 Out-of-court dispute settlement 👇

“As the ACLU warns, any definition of terrorism that includes ideological components risks criminalizing people or groups based on belief rather than based on violence or other criminal conduct.” theconversation.com/labeling-dis...

Fewer workers. Fewer international students. More people leaving. A "step in the right direction" according to the PM. Impossible to take PM/govt seriously on growth if they are deliberately reducing it (and making the fiscal position worse) *as a matter of policy*. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

If the Palestine Action case does nothing else (and you'd need a lot of faith in the power of rights in security contexts to think it will) it spotlights once again the lamentable mess of Closed Material Procedures that the UK Govt has so far gotten away with: www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov...

This week: Heritage exporting its Project 2025 agenda to Europe, to Roblox hosting mosque-shooting sims & white supremacist groups targeting kids, to U.S. officials pushing policies and propaganda that echo far-right networks & endanger LGBTQ+ communities. Read and subscribe to our weekly updates:

The EU has published a world-first risk landscape report under the #DSA. It flags systemic risks on big platforms — from illegal content to generative AI— and tracks how platforms are addressing them. More transparency. More accountability. A safer online space for all. link.europa.eu/NKM4yd

Asylum is not "illegal migration" Let's start from here theconversation.com/asylum-is-no...

If the system worked properly and fairly, this man would have been recognised years ago, been able to bring his family here and be a British citizen. Instead, he now faces being caught up in the Home Secretary's plans to switch refugees into what seems to be a minimum 20 year route to settlement.

Thank you to @alangreene.bsky.social for hosting me and @colinmurray.bsky.social on the new Counter Terrorism podcast to talk about the proscription of Palestine Action. It was great to have this chat. The hearings for the full judicial review of the proscription take place on 25-27 November.

Four men from Active Club Sweden have been sentenced to prison after they were found guilty of several racially motivated assaults in Stockholm The men, aged between 21 and 23, were jailed for between six months and three years and will have to pay damages www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Trump’s move to label “Antifa” a domestic terrorist group—despite no legal framework for such a designation—has sparked imitation abroad. Far-right leaders in Hungary, Poland, and the Netherlands are adopting similar rhetoric to criminalize opposition. Read more:

I’m really pleased (& grateful!) to have my research featured on the VOX-Pol blog, following my presentation at the Next Generation Network Conference in Prague earlier this year. 🔗 voxpol.eu/radical-righ... 🧵👇 #langsky #polsky #radicalright #politicalcommunication #ECR #antiextremistresearch

Since we’re in the mood for strict accuracy in broadcast news, worth noting that a rival channel had a pundit - unchallenged - say asylum seekers in hotels committed 44% of sexual offences in one county, seemingly because she cannot understand basic maths.

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

It's only a problem for the #OnlineSafetyAct if (a) the OSA was meant to catch all uses of AI chatbots in the first place (it wasn't) and (b) we think that extending 'regulation by regulator' is a good way of addressing the issue. Predictably, that model is already floundering in its current tasks.

Security means different things for different people. Check out our surveillance self-defense guides for protesters, researchers, LGBTQ youth, human rights defenders, and more. ssd.eff.org/module-cate...

The full transcript of Zohran Mamdani's acceptance speech is very much worth reading in full. Even if you don't agree with your politics, it's very beautifully put together. archive.is/8VqQJ [this is a useable link to the NYT transcript]

UK government loses attempt to block judicial review of Palestine Action ban (nb the merits of the challenge are not decided yet) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Read my two letters to the #UK: 1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly. 2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches 👇#HumanRights www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

UK fines 4chan over noncompliance with Online Safety Act therecord.media/4chan-fined-...