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 ...

Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta—the company that owns Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook, which collectively have a combined daily active user base of 3.3 billion—will be implementing sweeping ...

WhatsApp Channels is now subject to EU DSA rules as a VLOP, expanding content moderation oversight while encrypted private ...

Governments worldwide are increasingly leveraging AI technology for content moderation, aiming to manage the vast amounts of information circulating online. While AI’s efficiency in identifying ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is urging a federal judge to reject X Corp.'s bid to strike down a state law requiring large social platforms to disclose their content moderation policies and ...

While major social-media platforms like X and Meta have slackened content-moderation efforts and slashed third-party fact-checking, up-and-coming microblogging app Bluesky amplified its efforts in ...

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 ...

Zuckerberg's free speech reforms at Meta spark advertiser concerns over harmful content and misinformation risks. Meta replaces Nick Clegg with Republican ally Joel Kaplan, alarming advertisers over ...

A shareholder proposal sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) affiliate JLens has the backing of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. Both proxy advisory firms are ...

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 ...

The article is here; the Introduction: Over the past several decades, a combination of a laissez-faire regulatory environment and Section 230's statutory protections for platform content-moderation ...