The platform creators filed a lawsuit claiming their First Amendment rights were violated after the Trump administration convinced Apple and Facebook to remove their content.
Tech companies that create social media apps should not be blamed for the complex mental issues of everyone who might use them.
Tech journalist Taylor Lorenz discusses the Meta trial, the moral panic around social media, and the risks of regulating online speech.
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Despite its rejection of the Biden administration's interference, the Trump administration is still asserting authority over online speech.
Meta's loss in a New Mexico "product design" case could also be a blow against Section 230, free speech, and online privacy.
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The justice dissented from the Supreme Court's denial of a petition from a Texas journalist who was charged with felonies for practicing journalism.
A lawsuit argues that Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem coerced Apple and Meta to censor two popular ICE-monitoring tools, which violates Americans' right to freedom of expression.
In the first social media addiction case to reach a jury, K.G.M. claims TikTok, YouTube, and other platforms are responsible for her depression, anxiety, and poor self esteem.
A recent meta-analysis concerning short-form video, mental health, and attention spawned a lot of tech panic. Did critics even read the study?
Larry Bushart's lawyers argue that his arrest for constitutionally protected speech violated the First and Fourth amendments.
This is Priscilla Villarreal’s second trip to the Supreme Court, which last year revived her First Amendment lawsuit.
The decision ends the witch hunt begun under the first Trump administration.
Larry Bushart was arrested on a $2 million bond for posting a meme on Facebook. He was released this week, after more than a month in jail.
Meta is the third tech company in two weeks to succumb to DOJ pressure to remove apps and groups used to share information on immigration officer sightings.
Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.
Crackdowns on AI chatbots over perceived risks to children's safety could ultimately put more children at risk.
"They suspected the house was being used as a school," notes the Times, in a moment of high drama, "and they were right."
The STOP HATE Act wants social media platforms to report their moderation policies and outcomes to the government. And it’s not the only censorial measure Rep. Josh Gottheimer wants.
In the name of "restoring freedom of speech," FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson wants to override the editorial judgments of social media platforms.
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The penalty amounts to a "multibillion-dollar tariff," a Meta spokesperson says.
A new meta-analysis finds “no significant effects of social media abstinence interventions on positive affect, negative affect, or life satisfaction.”
Meta, Apple, Microsoft, and others have all faced legal action from the European Union in recent years.
Anyone discussing free speech should at least try to get this right.
It’s the latest company to step back from dangerous alliances with political factions.
Mark Zuckerberg has had it with these people.
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"The fact-checkers have just been too politically biased," says the Meta CEO.
If advertisers don’t want to give data to Facebook Marketplace, they shouldn’t advertise on Facebook.
A new study finds that conservatives are especially likely to share information from sources that a "politically balanced" sample of Republicans and Democrats deemed untrustworthy.
What if there was a social media platform owned not by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, but by everybody and nobody all at once?
The Meta CEO says his platforms will not blindly obey the bureaucrats again.
The author of The Anxious Generation argues that parents, schools, and society must keep kids off of social media.
The Univ. of Pennsylvania legal scholar makes the most thorough critique yet of this approach to justifying regulations that bar social media firms from engaging in most types of content moderation.
"It's just an effort to keep everybody safe and make sure nobody has any ill will," he claimed.
The Biden administration’s social media meddling went far beyond "information" and "advice."
The justices established guidelines for determining whether that is true in any particular case.
Several justices seemed concerned that an injunction would interfere with constitutionally permissible contacts.
The newspaper portrays the constitutional challenge to the government's social media meddling as a conspiracy by Donald Trump's supporters.
Even as they attack the Biden administration's crusade against "misinformation," Missouri and Louisiana defend legal restrictions on content moderation.
The First Amendment restricts governments, not private platforms, and respects editorial rights.
Supreme Court arguments about two social media laws highlight a dangerous conflation of state and private action.
The Supreme Court seems inclined to recognize that content moderation is protected by the First Amendment.
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