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The First Amendment and Platform Content Moderation


The First Amendment and Platform Content Moderation

The Moody v Netchoice decision sheds light on the Supreme Court's concerns regarding the regulation of content moderation on social media platforms.

Supreme Court Clarifies First Amendment and Standing Standards ...

In particular, the Supreme Court explained that by moderating and curating posts to begin with, social media companies engage in their own “ ...

Platforms Have First Amendment Right to Curate Speech, As We've ...

Also noteworthy is that in concluding that content moderation is protected First Amendment activity, the Supreme Court showed that it finally ...

SCOTUS says content moderation protected by First Amendment

“Today's decision means that the government will have a very high bar to clear in order to abridge the speech rights of online platforms and ...

Supreme Court's Message in First Amendment Case: Tech Is Free to ...

The court held that content moderation policies reflect the constitutionally protected editorial choices of the platforms, at least regarding ...

Supreme Court Casts Doubt on States' Efforts to Restrict Social ...

KEY TAKEAWAYS The First Amendment protects social media companies' efforts to moderate content posted to their platforms.

The First Amendment - Epic.org

The companies claim that the underlying activities they are required to report on, such as moderating content or designing platform features, are speech akin to ...

Supreme Court Finds That Internet Platforms Have Free Speech ...

The Court held that social media platforms, as private parties, have First Amendment rights, separate from their users. They are free to moderate users' ...

SCOTUS Remands Social Media Content Moderation Cases and ...

The First Amendment still imposes some limits on the government's ability to control what content appears online.

Supreme Court puts content moderation on solid legal ground

“But the way the First Amendment achieves that goal is by preventing the government from 'tilt[ing] public debate in a preferred direction,' not ...

Rappaport Forum talks First Amendment limits of content moderation ...

“The standards that a private company and the social media platforms are ordinarily held to are not First Amendment standards because the First ...

Ruling boosts social media free speech protections, some say

The Supreme Court's decision on social media content moderation could expand protections for tech platforms under the First Amendment.

Efforts to Regulate and to Influence Platform Content Moderation

protection and discretion that the First Amendment grants to the platforms to moderate content free of government regulation – and to ...

Supreme Court: Content moderation on social protected by the First ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that social media platforms' content moderation policies can be protected by the First Amendment, vacating prior ...

Why Social Media Platforms Should be Allowed to Moderate Content

Based on the ruling in Paxton, the Fifth Circuit held that platforms' content moderation decisions do not constitute speech nor editorial discretion. Further, ...

Supreme Court Finds First Amendment Barriers to TX and FL Social ...

A majority of Justices (five votes) agree that content moderation choices are protected speech under the First Amendment. But the nuances of a ...

Why the First Amendment protects social media content moderation

The First Amendment likewise protects a social media platform's editorial decisions about how to display third-party content and what kind of content to allow ...

Intro.9.2.3 Murthy v. Missouri: The First Amendment and Government ...

Missouri: The First Amendment and Government Influence on Social Media Companies' Content Moderation ... platform decision at least in part ...

Social Media Platforms as Publishers: Evaluating the First ...

Social Media Platforms as Publishers: Evaluating the First Amendment Basis for Content Moderation ... Introduction: In recent years, many Republican politicians ...

Supreme Court Oral Argument Preview: Social Media First ...

The Justice Department argued that blocking and removing content is protected First Amendment activity, this moderation is part of the platforms ...