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...
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,...
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...
Twitter, Facebook, Alphabet Executives to Defend Liability Shield Before Senate October 28, 2020 By David Shepardson and Nandita Bose The chief executives of Twitter Inc., Facebook and Alphabet Inc. will tell U.S. lawmakers at a hearing on Wednesday that...
Big Tech Lobby Seeks EU Liability Cover to Tackle Hate Speech, Illegal Content October 26, 2020 By Natalia Drozdiak Big technology platforms are calling on the European Union to protect them from legal liabilities for removing hate speech and...
FCC Says It Has Authority to Change Social Media Liability Shield October 22, 2020 By David Shepardson The top lawyer at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Wednesday the telecommunications regulator has legal authority to redefine...
No Action Yet on Trump Social Media Liability Proposal October 8, 2020 By David Shepardson The Federal Communications Commission has given no indication it will move quickly on an effort by President Donald Trump to...
Justice Department Set to Unveil Plan to Limit Internet Firms’ Liability Protections September 23, 2020 By David Shepardson The U.S. Justice Department will unveil later on Wednesday a proposal that seeks to limit legal protections for internet platforms...
EU Wants Better Self-Regulation by Facebook, Google, Twitter; Plans Liability Changes September 11, 2020 By Foo Yun Chee Two years after agreeing to a self-regulatory code of practice to tackle disinformation, Facebook, Alphabet’s Google, Twitter and other tech...