Most people want harmful social media content such as physical threats and defamation to be restricted. This also applies in ...

EU may expand its probe into whether Elon Musk’s X breached its content moderation rulebook. The commission has accused the platform of failing to tackle illegal content and disinformation.

Adweek reports media buyers and marketers are “eager” to test the new ad features on Threads, hoping for new audiences and ...

Meta’s decision could open the floodgates to more climate misinformation on its apps, including misleading or out-of-context claims during disasters.

NetChoice, LLC. The Eleventh Circuit had invalidated Florida's content-moderation law as an unconstitutional interference with platforms' editorial discretion. The Fifth Circuit upheld Texas's ...

Meta allowed thousands of paid ads containing sexually explicit imagery on social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a lot of heat since he announced last week that he is pulling his company out of the fact-checking business and curtailing content moderation on its platforms.

Will Oremus, tech news analysis writer for The Washington Post, says conservative lawmakers have always viewed moderating or fact-checking online content as censorship — even though the Supreme Court ...

Zuckerberg also outlined how the company will overhaul its broader content-moderation system to allow ... getting rid of a number of restrictions on topics like immigration, gender identity ...

Tech giant Meta recently announced a significant overhaul of its content moderation policy in the U.S., aiming to address the complexities and errors in its cur ...

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