Twitter’s permanent suspension of President Donald Trump’s account is reinvigorating debate about the law that protects social media platforms – specifically, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. ...
Twitter’s permanent suspension of President Donald Trump’s account is reinvigorating debate about the law that protects social media platforms – specifically, Section 230 of the ...
Liberals and conservatives have found fault with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—but for very different reasons.
Campaigners for a repeal of Section 230 said Trump’s intervention might derail their cause, but it could also offer an opportunity for decentralized tech to prove itself.
President Donald Trump has long accused social media companies, particularly Twitter, of silencing conservative voices, but he was particularly incensed when the platform, for the first ...
Republicans and Democrats are considering reforms to weaken liability protections for social media companies.
Legal scholar Mary Anne Franks talks about her new book ‘The Cult of the Constitution’ and why devotion to America’s flawed founding document is out of control.
<p>Last week, both Facebook and Twitter removed accounts and pages they said were part of a propaganda effort tied to the Chinese government, aimed at spreading disinformation about the ...
We are bombarded by misinformation and downright lies. With just a click, they catch fire and spread through traditional and social media, from false rumors spread by the U.S. president to ...
The attempt to frame nonconsensual pornography, which disproportionately affects women, as an issue of freedom of speech for putative perpetrators rather than a issue of privacy for ...
Deepfake technology used to alter video and other media is becoming more sophisticated. University of Miami experts weigh in on the threat it poses.
Even as Americans rely on tech more than ever, our early-pandemic truce with the industry is officially over.
The debate over what Facebook can and can’t moderate is more about politics than law.
The First Amendment bans the government from regulating the speech of private people and companies, not the other way around.
University of Chicago Legal Forum Volume 2020 12/01/2020 Article 3 2020 The Internet as a Speech Machine and Other Myths Confounding Section 230 Reform Danielle Keats Citron Mary Anne ...