Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...

For the sake of users and advertisers, a social media platform that values “free speech” as much as Elon Musk’s Twitter claims to is nothing without dedicated across-the-board (meaning free to all ...

Most people want harmful social media content such as physical threats and defamation to be restricted. This also applies in the U.S., where several social media platforms have recently modified their ...

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) staff announced a Request for Information (RFI) on February 20 seeking public comments on “how consumers may have been harmed by technology platforms that limited their ...

Elon Musk's social media platform X — formerly Twitter — is planning to create a new content moderation headquarters to police potentially harmful content shared on the site. Joe Benarroch, the head ...

Immediately after Charlie Kirk was shot during a college event in Utah, graphic video of what happened was available almost instantly online, from several angles, in slow-motion and real-time speed.

The article is here; the Introduction: Over the past several decades, a combination of a laissez-faire regulatory environment and Section 230's statutory protections for platform content-moderation ...