Social media companies must remove extremist content within one hour or face hefty fines, according to a new proposal unveiled by the head of the European Commission. But is the motivation for the regulation rooted in politics rather than security?
A Spanish rapper says he has no regrets about any of his lyrics, which resulted in a conviction in May for insulting the Spanish royal family and glorifying terrorism. Josep Miguel Arenas Beltram, who goes by the...
The Romanian government wants to force NGOs to publish data on all their beneficiaries, just as banks and gambling companies are forced to declare suspicious transactions. Non-compliant NGOs will be shut down.
In recent months, we've published news about the conviction of Twitter users for the crime of glorifying terrorism. Two new court decisions bring hope for a more rational application of the law.
The Spanish National Court has sentenced another Twitter user to one year in prison for the crime of glorifying terrorism and humiliating victims through a series of tweets published between 2012 and 2013. According...
Another Twitter user has been sentenced in Spain for glorifying terrorism and humiliating the victims. The court took into account the repentance of the accused, who never posted any similar message again, as well as...
The EU border agency Frontex is stepping up intelligence gathering of migrants pulled from the Mediterranean in an effort to identify terrorist suspects and criminals. On 1 February, Frontex launched its Themis...
The director of Sapo, Sweden's security service, has said that in the wake of the April 2017 terror attack, the country is not just dealing with an increased threat of terrorism, but also the impact of disinformation...
The Dutch minister for justice and public safety, Ferdinand Grapperhaus, wants to strip two convicted terrorists of their citizenship. It is a special measure that has only been taken once before. The current case...
The Spanish National Court has sentenced 12 rappers of the collective 'La Insurgencia' to two years in prison for the crime of glorifying terrorism. The court examined the lyrics of their songs in YouTube...
