The internet is filled with sites and services we loathe yet it seems, to paraphrase Brokeback Mountain, we just don’t know how to quit them. This points to an environment where big platforms can act ...

A decision on Friday by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit puts in jeopardy one of the few tools that exist to deal with false speech on the internet. The court ruled ...

The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it will launch a public inquiry into “censorship by tech platforms,” soliciting comments from people who feel they have been demonetized, banned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images/Creative (Getty Images/iStockphoto) This week the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear two major cases involving big ...

There’s no easy way to put it: The internet is having a midlife crisis. From a pandemic spread of misinformation and hate speech to Supreme Court cases weighing the responsibility of search engines ...

This Fall has been the most important for internet content regulation since 1996, when the Congress approved Section 230 of the Telecom Act establishing an internet ground rule that internet platforms ...

The U.S. justice system, including the Supreme Court, will consider cases that will help determine the bounds of free expression on the internet. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has been ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. China's President Xi Jinping shown on a screen in front of logos of China's leading Internet companies Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba ...

In February, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases about content moderation by online platforms such as social media networks. The cases—Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh—both have ...

After more than a decade of uncontrolled experiments by internet platforms on millions of users, there is an emerging possibility that one group of users — kids — may gain some protection. A wave of ...

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has started soliciting public opinions on a draft law against cyber abuse in a ...

How do social media platforms lead to unity or division? Cecilia Esteban, a student at Stevens Institute of Technology, recently sent me three questions about this. As I looked at some evidence, I ...