Periodically, the worlds of advertising and partisan politics collide. An impassioned and often politicized debate has taken center stage around the value of walled garden content moderation. There ...

Major social media companies employ people to filter and remove distressing content from their platforms. Workers pay a great ...

When we think of content moderation, our minds go straight to social media, and for good reason. As far as online platforms go, social media tends to be the most reliant on user-generated content (UGC ...

The Supreme Court will rule this year on the constitutionality of a pair of bills from Florida and Texas that would drastically reduce social media platforms’ discretion in removing user content. The ...

The Supreme Court sent back to lower courts Monday two challenges to Florida and Texas laws regulating social media platforms, deciding that the judges had to better define the stakes of free-speech ...

If you hoped to escape a deluge of partisan political promotion during the last days of this election season, your social media feeds probably won't provide much solace. A Wall Street Journal report ...

Two state laws that could upend the way social media companies handle content moderation are still in limbo after a Supreme Court ruling sent the challenges back to lower courts, vacating previous ...

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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 ...

As Congress has largely stayed at a standstill over internet policy, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in cases that could shake up a broad swath of the online landscape and define how ...