Social-media companies never wanted to aggressively police content on their platforms. Now, they are deciding they don’t have to anymore. Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Meta Platforms will end ...

California will no longer enforce key provisions of a law requiring social media companies to disclose details about their content moderation practices after settling a lawsuit with Elon Musk’s X Corp ...

Social media platforms commonly use artificial intelligence for content moderation, with the AI software itself relying on algorithms to screen content posted by social media users. Ultimately, the AI ...

Attorney General Andrew Bailey issued a regulation this week requiring social media platforms to give users in Missouri a choice over their algorithm. Bailey's proposal, modeled after the road map ...

As technology rapidly advances, with AI, crypto, encryption and other innovations, legacy social media and their content moderation policies are in flux. YouTube/Google, Facebook/Meta and Twitter/X ...

This is a bad moment for fact-checking. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” which targets social media ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in February 2025, launched a request for information seeking public comment about how social media platforms’ “adverse actions” against users and user content may ...

X and Elon Musk are back at it again with a lawsuit against a state, but this time, they are suing New York because of the newly proposed social media content moderation law that the latter is trying ...

In some Republican circles, there was one great scandal during Joe Biden’s presidency that was simply unforgiveable. It had nothing to do with Hunter Biden or autopens. Rather, it was about social ...

Charlie Kirk’s assassination earlier this month spurred rare calls from the right for more for content moderation measures on social media. At least two Republican lawmakers backed calls for social ...

“Zuckerberg has been personally upset by Meta’s system. In November 2023, he posted a picture of himself after surgery to repair a knee ligament he tore doing his hobby, mixed martial-arts fighting … ...