U.S. Lawsuit Could Open ‘Giant Can of Worms’ in Amazon’s Fight Against Product Recalls July 23, 2021 By Martina Barash A U.S. safety regulator’s decision last week to sue Amazon.com Inc. could bring clarity to a question that has long...
Facebook, Google CEOs Suggest How to Reform Internet Immunity Law March 25, 2021 By Diane Bartz and Nandita Bose Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg laid out steps to reform a key internet law on Wednesday, saying that companies should...
Internet Law Protects Video Platform From Church’s Bias Claim, Court Rules March 15, 2021 By Bob Van Voris Vimeo Inc. is immune to a lawsuit by a church whose account it deleted for promoting gay conversion, the federal...
Internet Firms’ Liability Protection Under Fire. 26 Words and What’s at Stake March 4, 2021 By Rebecca Kern Democrats and Republicans in Congress are taking aim at a controversial law that shields internet platforms including Facebook Inc. and...
Senators Offer Bill to Limit Liability Shield for Social Media Firms February 8, 2021 By Nandita Bose Three Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill that would limit Section 230, a law that shields online companies from liability...
Analysis: User Pact, Section 230 Likely to Shield Robinhood, Reddit From Lawsuits February 1, 2021 By Tom Hals Robinhood Markets Inc.’s user agreement is likely to protect the brokerage app from a barrage of lawsuits filed by customers...
FCC Appears Unlikely to Act on Trump Bid to Change Social Media Liability January 6, 2021 By David Shepardson The prospects of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai taking action on an effort to narrow social media companies’ legal...
Smaller Websites Nervous Over Giant Facebook’s Support for Liability Reform December 24, 2020 By Todd Shields and Ben Brody Facebook Inc. says it’s time to rethink the legal immunity that protects it from lawsuits over what users post online,...
Tech Firms Form Coalition to Defend Internet Liability Shield Law December 16, 2020 By Andrew G. Simpson A number of internet companies that are not big social media players are organizing to defend the law that shields...
Republicans Eye ‘Jackhammer’ to Reform Tech Liability While Democrats Grab ‘Scalpel’ October 30, 2020 By Nandita Bose Big Tech’s decisions to block some posts and videos while letting other content viewed as inflammatory proliferate have drawn the...