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The First Amendment and Platform Content Moderation


Political neutrality in content moderation compels private speech

The first amendment protects freedom of speech in the U.S. but section 230 provides enhanced protections. Congress conferred a benefit to internet platforms in ...

Internet Speech Cases Turn on Procedural Grounds as the Supreme ...

“While Free Press believes that tech companies should bolster their platform-accountability measures across the board, the First Amendment is ...

Content Moderation Is Not a Tool for Censoring Free Speech - Besedo

There's a common misconception that the actions taken by these privately-owned platforms constitute censorship. In the US, this can be read as a ...

Supreme Court Punts Flimsy Laws Limiting Social Media Content ...

State-Run Content Moderation Is Inherently Un-American ... The Supreme Court just sent two cases back to the lower courts for laws proposed by ...

Hate Speech on Social Media: Content Moderation in Context

For all practical purposes, the policy of social media companies to suppress hate speech on their platforms means that the longstanding debate in the United ...

Online Content Moderation - The Future of Free Speech

We promote content moderation policies that empower users to assert more control over the types of content they want to see or engage with.

Social Media Content Moderation Protected By First Amendment

States seeking to challenge social media companies' ability to remove posts based on the viewpoint expressed suffered a loss at the Supreme ...

Free Speech Summer: The U.S. Supreme Court's Recent Opinions ...

... content moderation practices of social media platforms while respecting First Amendment rights. Another summer decision (case No. 23-961 ...

GOP AGs ask Supreme Court to peel back content moderation from ...

Next month, the high court is to hear a set of cases that question whether state laws that limit Big Tech companies' ability to moderate content ...

Free Speech and the Regulation of Social Media Content

... the First Amendment protects social media platforms' content moderation decisions. Stated another way, the relevant question is when social ...

US Supreme Court decision on content moderation laws a defining ...

“And so the majority opinion makes incredibly clear that the First Amendment applies fully to editorial functions in the digital age. And that ...

A First Amendment Right to Social Media? - TalksOnLaw

Social media platforms have become powerful centers for expression and communication, but does the First Amendment protect access to these platforms?

Supreme Court Avoids Ruling on Florida, Texas Social-Media Laws

The Supreme Court on Monday said social-media platforms' content-moderation policies can be protected by the First Amendment.

Are Social Media Comments Protected by the First Amendment?

The First Amendment does not protect ... Content moderation, whether done manually by company employees or automatically by a platform's ...

Platform moderation, speech, and the courts

In a sixty-seven-page decision, the Eleventh Circuit judges ruled that any moderation decisions made by social media platforms such as Twitter ...

Freedom of Speech and Social Media – Originality.AI

Social media platforms have their own rights under the First Amendment, which allows them to moderate the content that users post on their platforms. So, as ...

In Supreme Court, Texas and Florida's Argument Against Big Tech ...

“While we believe that the platforms should strengthen their content-moderation policies, the First Amendment is clear: It's not the ...

Social Media and the First Amendment | Moment Debate Round Two

Would social media be overrun with toxic content if the First Amendment were honored online? There's a century of cases identifying speech the ...

Has the US Supreme Court Made It Harder to Regulate Social Media

The Supreme Court remanded the cases to the courts below for further fact-finding but made various statements about how the First Amendment ...

LISTEN: Supreme Court casts doubt on efforts to regulate social ...

Alito complained about the term “content moderation” that the sites employ to keep material off their platforms. ... Go Deeper. first amendment ...