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Published May 14, 2021 President Joe Biden revoked a controversial executive order that former President Donald Trump signed last summer that targeted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Featured Video Hide Trump’s executive order, which he signed last May, directed a section of the Commerce Department to petition the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “clarify” Section 230. Trump signed the order after Twitter fact-checked several o...

President Biden has revoked a Trump executive order that let the federal government intervene when companies cracked down on social media posts.

Thu, May 13th 2021 10:48am — Mike Masnick Weve already highlighted our concerns with Wireds big cover story on Section 230 (twice!). The very same day that came out, Wired UK published a piece by Prof. Danielle Citron entitled Fix Section 230 and hold tech companies to account. Citrons proposal was already highlighted in the cover story and now gets this separate venue. For what its worth, Citron also spent a lot of energy insisting that the Wired cover story was the "definitive" article on 2...

It truly is stunning how every single bill that attempts to reform Section 230 appears to be written without any intention of ever...

Photo: Olivier Douliery (Getty Images) On Wednesday, Facebook’s Oversight Board, the pseudo-legalistic, questionably independent body that the company claims has the power to review and potentially overrule official moderation decisions, issued its not-so-final proclamations regarding the status of Donald Trump’s account. Advertisement The now-former president has been suspended from Facebook and its subsidiary Instagram after inciting deadly riots at the Capitol on Jan. 6 in an ill-fated b...

Democrats and advocates have criticized the process and the boards decision to leave open the ability for Trump to return, while Republicans have centered their criticism around accusations that Facebook is censoring conservatives through the ban.  Trump, unsurprisingly, also slammed the decision — lumping together Facebook, Twitter and Google.  ADVERTISEMENT “These corrupt social media companies must pay a political price, and must never again be allowed to destroy and decimate our Elec...

The terms of service for Donald Trump's new social media site say that he should be kicked off for his posts.

See Full Story Wikipedia founder on Section 230: Facebook cant be liable for posts by somebody’s crazy uncle Alexis Keenan April 28, 2021, 12:57 PM As Big Tech faces increasing scrutiny over disinformation online, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said Facebook (FB) and Twitter (TWTR) face a more difficult challenge over content moderation than the crowd-sourced online encyclopedia he launched in 2001.  But he said lawmakers should not do away with Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, ...

Rather than a CEO-slamming sound bite free-for-all, Tuesday's big tech hearing on algorithms aimed for more of a listening session vibe — and in that sense it mostly succeeded. The hearing centered on testimony from the policy leads at Facebook, YouTube and Twitter rather than the chief executives of those companies for a change. In the hearing, lawmakers bemoaned social media echo chambers and the ways that the algorithms pumping content through platforms are capable of completely...

Senator Bill Hagerty was just elected out of Tennessee to take over Lamar Alexander's old seat, and he's kicking off his...