On paper, Utah’s sweeping social media legislation passed this week is an ambitious attempt to shield children and teens from the ill effects of social media.
The British government is reportedly contemplating amendments to the Online Safety Act, a move aimed at tightening regulations on social media companies in the wake of a week of racist rioting fueled by false information online...
LegislationThe 2016 U.S. Presidential election and the 2016 U.K. Brexit referendum are notable for the contemporaneous efforts by Russian-based trolls to manipulate public opinion through Cloud-based social media. Such disinformation warfare raises serious concerns about the risk of negatively ...
As an economist who studies theregulation of utilitiessuch as electricity, gas and water, I wonder what that regulation would look like. There are many regulatory models in use around the world, but few seem to fit the realities ofsocial media. However, observing how these models work can pr...
There have been some moves to regulate social media platforms in recent years, with varying degrees of success. In mid-2023, the Australian government proposed legislation that would boost the powers of the Australian Communications and Media Authority topressure tech companies into fighting ...
A new study has found that government legislation like that recently introduced in the EU can be effective at moderating harmful social media content, even when it comes to fast-paced platforms such as X (formerly Twitter).
” However, apart from the merely definitional aspect, it seems appropriate for the purposes of this research to go into the substance of the regulation in order to grasp the interests that the legislation tends to protect and the balance that is achieved or configured with the protection of ...
Legislation introduced by four senators aims to prohibit all children under the age of 13 from using social media and would give parents more control over what teenagers under the age of 18 can access. The two Democrats and two Republicans are parents of
The United Nations' educational, scientific and cultural agency chief on Wednesday called for a global dialogue to find ways to regulate social media companies and limit their role in the spreading of misinformation around ...
Various efforts have been made by political leaders to curb intimidation, abuse, and misinformation onsocial mediabut many elected representatives argue that more legislation is needed to police the internet. The founder and CEO of Web Summit, Ireland's Paddy Cosgrave, compared the "turbulence" whi...