The death of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny last month, after years of confinement in a Siberian jail, and subsequent quelling of protest, emphasised the flourishing of censorship across a globe riven by geopolitical crises, in a year when democracy is put to the test in more than 70 countries. With the threat of electoral misinformation being boosted by AI-generated content and social media algorithms, artists have been warning of new kinds of censorship. The effect is being felt in real life, online and in social media

Senior social media manager Nell Burnham reports that the @tate account, which serves both Tate Modern and Tate Britain, doubled its video views to 65 million in 2023

The Art Newspaper is looking for an enthusiastic candidate to join its London team

Keen to capitalise on the social media channel's rising profile in the art world, the Peabody Essex Museum hired two dedicated creators in residence

Our guide to a fast-moving year in artificial intelligence, blockchain contracts, stadium-scale video, NFTs and social media

The social media platform's lifestyle and education team has been offering services to companies like Sotheby's to help improve content and grow followings

Hito Steyerl and ruangrupa are among the signatories of the open letter

Videos of bidding battles for the Queen frontman's possessions resulted in the auction house doubling its TikTok followers in less than a week

New European regulations have required Instagram to reveal how some artists’ accounts have been deprived of visibility. But fears remain over who has access to the culture-shaping power of social media

Art world figures are forging new personalities on the new 'Twitter clone' from Meta

Major institutions are falling over themselves to be funny on the new rival to Twitter

After collecting signatures outside art institutions, the group Don’t Delete Art will deliver its manifesto to Meta’s Manhattan headquarters

Many users are beginning to wonder if the platform's guidelines have any positive value

Big museums are missing a trick by refusing to embrace the youth- and fun- oriented platform

Social media giant has been taken to task for its notorious “female nipple” guideline, but the battle for creatives' freedom of expression is not yet over

We look at how the 100 most-visited museums in our Visitor Figures survey performed online

Plus, art censorship online and Brenda L. Croft's photos of fellow First Nations Australian women

New campaign hopes to convince companies like Facebook and Instagram to bring artists into the content moderation process

AI chatbot software has made waves by creating convincingly human speech and text—could it transform communications in the arts?

Digital experts in the cultural field—Alec Ward, Adam Koszary and Chris Unitt—share their predictions for platforms this year

As the UK’s troubled Online Safety Bill finally looks set to become law, there are still concerns about whether it will get the balance between online safety and censorship right

New functions show if content goes against the social media platform's Recommendation Guidelines that it uses to decide what should be promoted and searchable

Censorship by more mainstream social media platforms has artists turning to OnlyFans to promote their work

With the platform's new owner firing moderators, some artists are hoping for an end to censorship while others fear discrimination

A set of ambiguous laws has pushed platforms to refuse service to artists whose work includes nude imagery or could be construed as sexual

More than a million users have left Twitter since business magnate took over the platform

The "Insta' gratification" column will now explore the full spectrum of social media and its uses in the art world

Campaign demands that Meta stop tinkering and start listening to creators