WhatsApp Channels is now subject to EU DSA rules as a VLOP, expanding content moderation oversight while encrypted private ...

Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...

A new large-scale, global survey has revealed that most people want harmful social media content such as physical threats and defamation to be restricted. This also applies in the USA where several ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is urging a federal judge to reject X Corp.'s bid to strike down a state law requiring large social platforms to disclose their content moderation policies and ...

Social-media companies are now pulling back on all of their content moderation on their platforms, Alexa Course, Meghan Bobrowsky, and Jeff Horwitz of The Wall Street Journal report. Back in 2022, ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a lot of heat since he announced recently that he is pulling his company out of the fact-checking business and curtailing content moderation on its platforms. The ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in February 2025, launched a request for information seeking public comment about how social media platforms’ “adverse actions” against users and user content may ...

Content moderation is never easy but also unavoidable. Without it, you risk having online forums overrun with spam, scams, and spittle-flecked vitriol, and it’s easy to make mistakes –especially when ...

A shareholder proposal sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) affiliate JLens has the backing of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. Both proxy advisory firms are ...

Since Meta announced an end to third-party fact-checking, claiming it was freeing itself from “societal and political pressure to moderate content”, social media users have questioned the value of ...

Mark Zuckerberg recently announced changes to Meta’s content moderation policy. This signals a pivotal shift in how harmful content is managed for the 3.29 billion users on their platforms. These ...