One professor said it is the only way to solve the harmful content problem without encroaching on free speech rights.
The bill is intended to prohibit product preferences on tech platforms, with some saying it could harm small companies dependent on those platforms.
The debate on what government should -- or shouldn't -- do with respect to liability protections for platforms continues.
Cost of moderation another factor as to why some experts say standardized content moderation policies may not work for all.
Dozens of bills regulating internet content moderation have been proposed in at least 30 state legislatures, and one in Utah […]
March 16, 2021 – A member of Facebook’s Oversight Board, which was created to provide content moderation decisions for the […]
February 22, 2021 – Panelists at a communications research conference on Thursday were divided about how to reconcile free speech […]
January 7, 2021 — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced in a statement posted to his personal page Thursday that […]
December 29, 2020 — On Sunday evening, President Donald Trump signed into law a major coronavirus stimulus package, barely avoiding […]
A lawsuit filed Wednesday by a coalition of ten Republican state attorneys general, led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, […]
The White House announced Monday, in a notice sent to the Senate, that it was withdrawing the nomination of Mike […]
July 28, 2020 — Senators on Tuesday remained broadly divided on the extent and direction that changes to Section 230 […]
July 27, 2020 — The U.S. Commerce Department under the Trump administration on Monday followed through on the president’s orders […]
July 13, 2020 — Social media moderation will inevitably be biased to some degree, said Jeff Kosseff, assistant professor of […]
July 8, 2020 — Despite the hate that big tech companies receive, social media platforms are essential in enabling online […]
This week, social media platforms started to make long called-for changes to their content policies, reported The New York Times. […]
June 25, 2020 — Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and former Congressman Chris Cox, authors of Section 230 of the Communications […]
June 24, 2020 — Four members of the Transatlantic High Level Working Group on Content Moderation Online and Freedom of […]
The Transatlantic High Level Working Group on Content Moderation and Freedom of Expression, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy […]
June 22, 2020 — Legal experts disagreed on Monday about whether Section 230 is exacerbating or helping to solve problems […]
