News Roundup: Social Media Sites Become Publishers in Response to Hate Speech

Since the rise of social media, there’s been a long-standing debate about whether sites like Facebook and Twitter are actually publishers or media companies, rather than just technology platforms. Facebook seems to change its answer to this question, depending which decision it’s trying to defend and this week the platform, alongside YouTube, Apple and Spotify decided that they do have editorial oversight, removing accounts and content relating to Infowars founder and right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.

Read the rest of this week’s tech news roundup here.

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