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If it ain't Info Fatigue Syndrome, it's certainly "technosis"

Almost no one noticed in 1996 when Congress gave online social media platforms sweeping legal immunity from what their users posted on them.

Continually beating the experts' earnings estimates

I first started writing about computers for a living in 1993, when I joined a UK magazine called PC Home. Back then we used Windows 3.11 and MS-DOS, and much of our online life was spent on CompuServe, although the World Wide Web (and the

A case heading to SCOTUS claims platforms should be held responsible for their algorithmic recommendations. A history of the statute suggests otherwise.

Almost no one noticed in 1996 when Congress gave online social media platforms sweeping legal immunity from what their users posted on them.

Stunning things are being done by news media outlets around the nation and the world, with words, photos, audio, video, animation, podcasts and interactive storytelling that blur the lines between what print and broadcast media can present.

The Supreme Court will review cases calling into doubt Section 230, which allows internet media platforms to function

Advocates of online speech — indeed, of Internet communications generally — are nervous the Supreme Court has taken up a case that could determine the constitutionality of a key ruling in the area.

“This is a really difficult case with tragic circumstances,” says Jeff Kosseff, author of The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet.