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Content Moderation
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Media Law Prof Blog
Grochowski on Algorithmic Speech Harm
Mateusz Grochowski, Tulane University School of Law; Yale Law School Information Sosciety Project; Yale Law School Center for Private Law, has published Algorithmic Speech Harm. Here is the abstract.This paper…
Media Law Prof Blog
Tuchtfeld and Murphy on Global Gatekeepers: Online Oversight and Internet Content Moderation
Erik Tuchtfeld, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and Christopher Murphy, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security, and Law, have published Global Gatekeepers:…
Cyberleagle
The Online Safety Act grumbles on
By Cyberleagle
Policymakers sometimes comfort themselves that if no-one is completely satisfied, they have probably got it about right. On that basis, Ofcom’s implementation of the Online Safety Act’s illegality duties must be…
Michael Geist
The Law Bytes Podcast, Episode 224: Why Prorogation and Donald Trump Spell the End of an Era in Canadian Digital Policy
A lot has happened over the past six weeks since the last Law Bytes episode that provided a year-end review. TikTok briefly went offline in the U.S., Meta changed its…
Regulatory Oversight
Missouri AG Announces New Rule for Big Tech
By Troutman Pepper Locke State Attorneys General Team, Jeff Johnson
Missouri's attorney general (AG) announced on X.com (formerly Twitter) that he is "issuing a rule requiring Big Tech to guarantee algorithmic choice for social media users." [X.com post (January 17,…
Michael Geist
New Era and New Risks: Meta’s Content Moderation Reforms and Freedom of Expression Online
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg yesterday announced significant new changes to the company’s content moderation policies. The five-minute video is worth watching in its entirety, as it demonstrates the shifting political…
Global Policy Watch
Likely Trends in U.S. Tech and Media Regulation Under the New Trump Administration
With U.S. President Trump returning to the White House, we expect the regulatory landscape facing technology and communications companies to shift significantly, if not uniformly. On the one hand, media…
The Right Coast
Hillary Clinton Is Worried – WSJ
A federal law known as Section 230 has enabled the rise of social media by letting tech platforms make good-faith efforts to remove objectionable content without becoming liable for everything…
State AG Blog
The State Law Landscape After Justices’ Social Media Ruling
By Joanna Rosen Forster, Derick D. Dailey, Jacob Canter
On July 1, the U.S. Supreme Court remanded a set of Florida and Texas laws restricting social medial companies' ability to curate, amend or edit online user content in Moody…
The Right Coast
The Tell in Zuckerberg s Letter to Congress – WSJ
The closest the letter comes to admitting causation is Mr. Zuckerberg s assertion that he told his teams at the time that we should not compromise our content standards due…