Section 230
Tech CEO’s to defend key law in front of US Senate panel
The CEO’s of Twitter, Facebook and Alphabet will inform US lawmakers in a hearing on Wednesday that a federal law protecting internet companies is essential to free expressio...
Twitter flags Trump tweet on mail-in ballots over ‘disputed’ content
Twitter yesterday again flagged a tweet by US President Donald J Trump about mail-in ballots, including a disclaimer describing the article’s content as “disputed”...
Twitter briefly restricts Trump campaign account, GOP outraged at company’s actions
President Trump’s re-election campaigns Twitter accounts was temporarily restricted late last week, causing an outcry from Republican lawmakers who enticed social media firms...
Twitter and Facebook restrict circulation of New York Post story on Biden
Facebook and Twitter throw doubt on a New York Post story that made claims about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son, taking proactive actions to limit dissemin...
Platform CEO’s will testify before US Senate committee
The CEO’s of Facebook, Twitter and Google have agreed to voluntarily testify in a hearing before the Senate Commerce Committee on October the 28th about an integral law prote...
Democrat on Senate panel opposes sending subpoenas to tech leaders
The ranking Democrat on the US Senate Commerce Committee rejected a request by Republicans to subpoena three top tech executives to testify at an upcoming hearing, telling them of ...
US Justice Department proposes changes to platforms’ immunity
President Trump has met with nine Republican state attorney generals to discuss the fate of a legal immunity for online companies following the Justice Department unveiled a legisl...
What’s in the law protecting platform businesses – and can President Trump change it?
The US Justice Department on Wednesday issued a proposal to reform a legal resistance for online companies and follows through on President Donald Trump’s bid from earlier th...
Four state attorneys general back Trump on social media regulation
Four Republican state attorneys general led by Texas backed President Trump’s push to narrow the capability of social networking companies to remove objectionable content and...
Reddit bans ‘The_Donald’ forum amid broad social media crackdown
The social media platform Reddit has shut down r/The_Donald, a forum which long served as a popular online home base for fans of President Donald Trump, saying it violated the site...
Section 230: Senators propose reform to key US tech liability shield
Two US senators have introduced legislation to reform part of a federal law that largely exempts tech platforms such as Facebook and Twitter from legal liability for the material t...
Twitter slaps another warning on tweet by President Trump
Twitter has placed another warning notice on a tweet by President Trump threatening “serious force” against protesters in the US capital, the second time it has used th...
Google extends fact-checking to image search
Google has said it would start showing fact-checking labels on Google Images search results globally, as tech companies come under increasing pressure to combat the viral spread of...
Social media platforms distrusted by most Americans on content decisions
Most Americans do not trust social media companies to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms, but trust the government even less to make those cho...