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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Content moderation has always been a nightmare for Meta. Its new content-moderation policy is a huge change — and it could be an ...
There is little to Mark Zuckerberg beyond the desire to make money. Values have been grafted onto him over the decades, and he has espoused various opinions to appease whomever holds power at a ...
Social media platforms have historically run their content moderation much like a parent running a house full of teenagers: If you live under my roof, you follow my rules. But as social media has ...
How Trump’s executive order on online free speech could upend content moderation Will Oremus, tech news analysis writer for The Washington Post, says conservative lawmakers have always viewed ...
Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...
WhatsApp Channels is now subject to EU DSA rules as a VLOP, expanding content moderation oversight while encrypted private ...
Since Meta announced an end to third-party fact-checking, claiming it was freeing itself from “societal and political pressure to moderate content”, social media users have questioned the value of ...
UNITED STATES - March 25: A cardboard cutout of Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, dressed up as the QAnon Shaman, along with other cutouts of people involved in the Capitol insurrection, stand on the ...
LOS ANGELES—During the first stop of her First Amendment Tour outside of Washington, FCC commissioner Anna Gomez spoke out against attempts by the agency and Trump administration to chill dissent, ...
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 ...