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Content Moderation
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The Right Coast
Facebook Under Fire For Keeping Antifa Page While Eliminating Far-Right Groups JONATHAN TURLEY
Facebook is under fire this week after it was discovered that the company has allowed Rose City Antifa, a violent group associated with riots for many years, to maintain a…
The Right Coast
Welp. Now Twitter Is Going After The Babylon Bee
On Monday, the wildly successful satire site The Babylon Bee was suspended from Twitter.via pjmedia.comI thought this was a joke. Apparently not.
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Commerce Dept. Petitions FCC to Issue Rules Clarifying CDA Section 230
The currents around the Communications Decency Act just got a little more turbulent as the White House and executive branch try to reel in the big fish of CDA reform.…
Lancaster Law Blog
Content Moderation: The First Step to Protecting Your Business from Online Misinformation
The ability to quickly share information with a large number of people is one of the powerful things about the Internet. But with great power comes great responsibility. Or at…
Ciric Law Firm Blog
SECTION 230, TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDER, AND THE FUTURE OF FREE SPEECH IN SOCIAL MEDIA
By Pierre Ciric
Section 230 of the U.S. Code has suddenly become one of the government’s hottest topics, thanks in part to a recently released Executive Order penned by President Trump. As of…
Media Law Prof Blog
Fagan on Optimal Social Media Content Moderation and Platform Immunities
Frank Fagan, EDHEC Business School, is publishing Optimal Social Media Content Moderation and Platform Immunities in the European Journal of Law and Economics. Here is the abstract.This Article presents a…
Retail & Consumer Products Law Observer
Facebook’s New Content Moderation Appeals Process
By Crowell & Moring, Christopher A. Cole
Stung by repeated criticisms of content moderation decisions in which it either acted or refused to act to remove controversial content such as obviously-doctored political videos, Facebook has developed a…
The Right Coast
Project Veritas: Facebook moderation aims to “get the Cheetoh out of office”
What lesson can we draw from the latest Project Veritas peek into Facebook s content moderators? Perhaps the oldest lesson of all power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Will…
The Right Coast
Google Targets Conservative Sites In Latest Crackdown JONATHAN TURLEY
Google has moved against another set of conservative sites. While many have celebrated the action against ZeroHedge and The Federalist, I remain deeply concerned over the free speech implications of such actions.…
Broadcast Law Blog
Facebook Defends Not Censoring Political Ads – Looking at the Differences In Regulation of Political Speech on Different Communications Platforms
The question about what to do with the protections offered by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act took another turn this week, when Joe Biden suggested that online platforms…