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.

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

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 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 ...

But what does the American public actually want in terms of content moderation? Along with our colleagues Adam Berinsky, Amy Zhang and Paul Resnick, we first assessed this question in summer 2023 ...

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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