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A few days after the European Court of Human Rights trial of the "Jesus in jeans" case, a criminal court in Jaén, Spain, fined a young man 480 euros for a crime against religious feelings. He posted on Instagram a...
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...
For the second time in as many months, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have been hit by a Polish email campaign, this time to defend a controversial new law on Holocaust speech. The latest deluge, which...
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...
Research shows mass surveillance is causing a decline in free speech over the internet. Read the latest episode of our series to learn more about the 'spiral of silence'.
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Facebook has admitted that it can't offer any assurance that social media is on the whole good for democracy. However, Facebook said it's doing what it can to stop people from using its service to influence...
The European Commission will be proposing EU-level plans before the summer on how to tackle fake news. Mariya Gabriel, EU commissioner for digital economy, on Monday told reporters in Brussels that proposals would be...
A court in Murcia, Spain, has confirmed the fine of €700 for the singer of the band Rokavieja for disturbance of public order. During a concert in 2016, the local police had to evict a person from the venue who had...
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...
Spain's Supreme Court has confirmed a one-and-a-half year prison sentence handed down for retweeting messages or images supporting ETA or paying hommage to its members. The Court ruled that the retweets break a law...
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