The briefing is completed on a cert petition presenting the urgent question of whether section 230 immunizes Twitter's knowing possession and distribution of child sex abuse materials.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act plays a vital role in protecting free speech online. It allows platforms to host and moderate user-generated speech without assuming legal liability. But ...

US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse on Friday said that he was moving to file a bipartisan bill to repeal of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Section 230, passed in 1996 as part of the ...

Section 230 grants broad legal protections to websites that host user-generated content. It is widely recognized as the reason that platforms like Facebook and Google exist in their current form. The ...

Section 230 is a part of federal legislation passed more than 20 years ago. It runs only 26-words long—short and to the point. But it has had an outsize affect on life as we know it. They are the “26 ...

The law has protected Facebook and other social media giants from legal liability. As a whistleblower casts blame, lawmakers say it should be changed to hold companies accountable. Marguerite Reardon ...

This performance was met with widespread derision; on Twitter, Trump’s own recently fired election security czar, Christopher Krebs, called it “the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in ...

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