UK Revisits Social Media Regulation After Far-Right Riots August 12, 2024 By Martin Coulter The British government is considering changes to the Online Safety Act designed to regulate social media companies, following a week...
New York Readies Bill Giving Parents Some Control Over Kids’ Social Media Feeds June 7, 2024 By Carolyn Thompson New York lawmakers on Tuesday said they were finalizing legislation that would allow parents to block their children from getting...
New York Bills Seek to Protect Kids From Social Media’s Mental Health Harms October 12, 2023 By Andrew G. Simpson Citing research showing increased rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal ideation, and self-harm associated with children and young adults’ social media...
New York Online Hate Speech Law Challenged by Thiel-Backed Rumble December 2, 2022 By Chris Dolmetsch A New York law prohibiting hate speech on social media was challenged by the Volokh Conspiracy legal blog and the...
Federal Court Rules in Favor of Texas Law on Social Media Regulation September 20, 2022 By Paul Weber A federal appeals court Friday ruled in favor of a Texas law targeting major social media companies like Facebook and...
UK Warns Facebook Executives to Keep Users Safe or Risk Criminal Charges November 5, 2021 By Nate Lanxon UK Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries warned Facebook Inc. and its chiefs are on course for criminal prosecution for failing to...
Searching for Realistic Ideas That Could Help Tame Big Tech November 2, 2021 By Marcy Gordon Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in cases where the content they push...
If Facebook Is the Problem, Is a Social Media Regulator the Fix? October 6, 2021 By Elizabeth Culliford and Diane Bartz Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told Congress on Tuesday that one option for making social media less harmful would be to...
Twitter Security Failure Prompts Call for Regulating Internet Giants as Systemic Risks October 14, 2020 By Jonathan Stempel Twitter Inc. suffered from cybersecurity shortfalls that enabled a “simple” hack attributed to a Florida teenager to take over the...
House Antitrust Panel Blasts Big 4 Internet Firms for Abuses; Seeks Reforms, Separations October 7, 2020 By Nandita Bose and Diane Bartz A U.S. House of Representatives panel looking into abuses of market power by four big technology companies found they used...