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The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether social media companies must explain how they moderate content. To get to an answer, the justices will have to clarify the law surrounding compelled commercial speech.
The Fifth Circuit badly overreaches in upholding Texas’s social media moderation law, making a hash of the First Amendment in the process.
Key structural weaknesses will likely make this industry-led initiative ineffective in promoting true transparency and accountability among social media platforms.
An overfocus on covert networks on Facebook and Twitter misses the full expanse of the propaganda strategies that often reach more users through different communication media.
Could new Texas and Florida content moderation laws promote extremist activity online?
The Eleventh Circuit’s ruling provides important guidance to legislators working on social media laws, but the most important takeaway is the vindication of a consumer protection approach to social media content moderation.
The Eleventh Circuit’s opinion striking down most of Florida’s controversial social media law mostly gets the First Amendment right but also shortchanges the important government interests at stake.
It isn’t a social media site but a decentralized collection of servers that represents an entirely different way of organizing social media.
Congress is considering major proposals that seek to provide greater transparency from social media companies.
The tools governments use to regulate behavior online are very similar, even in countries as seemingly dissimilar as the United States and China, but what differs is the incentive structures they create.