While they differ in the details, these Republican-led state laws regulate social media platforms' content-moderation policies. The Texas law prevents platforms from removing content based on users' viewpoints, while the Florida one prevents platforms from banning politicians and candidates, Politico rep...
Over the past few months, Twitter took down the account of the then-President of the United States and Facebook temporarily stopped users from sharing Australian media content. This begs the question: do social media platforms wield too much power? Whatever your personal view, a variety of "de...
“Social media is still important because you get to talk to people, but I think it’s still good that they’re like limiting it,” said Swan Son, a 13-year-old student at Brisbane State High School. She said she has had limited exposure to soc...
The Florida law, calledS.B. 7072 or the Stop Social Media Censorship Act, bars social media companies from banning political candidates. It also requires social media companies to publish standards about issues such as blocking users and apply the standards consistently. Who are the Supreme Court ...
So, to be clear, a user was banned from Trump's new "free speech" social media platform for registering a username that Truth Social's CEO does not like. Interestingly, Truth Social has specificruleslimiting speech on the platform when it involves Trump and others who own the platform. Whe...
(Though it’s clear that, in a race to the bottom, both sides adopt the approaches of the other side that seem to be effective. e.g. the Left is getting into book banning (historically a Conservative tactic) and the Right is getting into cancelling and shout-downs (usually Progressive ...
Social media are communications on the Internet (such as on websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos). Social networking and social media are over
The Supreme Court has upheld a law banning TikTok in the U.S. starting Jan. 19, unless the popular social media platform cuts ties with its China-based parent company. Here's what to know. January 17, 2025 9:28pm EST 'Snow Angel Challenge': Why are kids doing snow angels in bathing...
LUT 1 Speech transcript First of all, common social media sites that are used to promote information would be Twitter. This social media site is a text based that allows a maximum of 140 characters to write and send a message which is called a “tweet”. Facebook, which is a web based...
Ultimately, this is why Mastodon instances can implement the kinds of moderation policies that their users clamor for (including banning Nazis). Most instances only have a few dozen to a few thousand active users, and they’re often organized based on shared interests, languages, or nationalities...