A federal court upheld the First Amendment rights of users online on Thursday, finding the Arkansas State Police unlawfully used Facebook‘s content moderation tools to censor speech on the ...

Steam now lets you make a custom list of words you want filtered from your chat experience, Steam owner Valve has announced. The Steam Text & Chat Filtering feature already removes commonly used ...

Valve has announced that users now have access to a beta feature that enables them to filter unwanted words from chat, preventing conversations from being derailed. The feature is available now ...

Software that changes one word in a message for another. A word filter is often used to clean up offensive language but it is also used as a prank. Macros are a form of word filtering because they can ...

Instagram will automatically filter out abusive messages from users’ inbox, it has announced. The new update for the Facebook-owned photo service will focus on direct message requests, but not the ...

Steam is testing a new chat filter system that’ll allow users to customize their experience by blocking certain words or phrases they don’t want to see. A chat filtering service is already in place on ...

Threads will also let you choose the words, phrases, and emoji to hide. Threads will also let you choose the words, phrases, and emoji to hide. is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer ...

Twitter and Facebook have taken online harassment more seriously in 2016, though their approach is still light-handed, with the former taking years to finally ban one of its worst pitchfork-marshaling ...

Instagram started allowing certain high-profile users to filter specific words out of their comments section earlier this summer, and today, the company is rolling that feature out to everyone. Users ...

PureFlix.com, a streaming service catering to evangelicals, today announced that it will allow users to filter out words like “hell” and “damn” from its programming. Pure Flix Entertainment, which ...

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has instructed telecommunications operators in the country to filter SMS (Short Message Service) messages that include words that it considers objectionable, ...