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In the past few weeks, media outlets and liberal commentators have seized on revelations from former Facebook employee-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen as...

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said the FREE Speech Act would end Facebook's censorship of Breitbart News and other dissident news media outlets.

Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) said the FREE Speech Act would end Facebook's censorship of Breitbart News and other dissident news media outlets.

Top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday announced legislation aimed at holding online platforms accountable for content promoted by their algorithms.

“How can you have a digital society where you don't even know what the rules are?” In this ...

Amid growing bipartisan agreement that increased regulation of social media platforms and their content moderation policies is needed, the path forward remains...

We need privacy use laws. and transparency, doing more to reform whats happening out there. im just tired of hearing "trust us," and its time to protect those moms and dads that have been struggling with those kids. >> section 230, which is the law that shields internet companies from liability or content posted online, that was written in 1996. my cell phone was the size of a football. mark zuckerberg was 11. he didnt even have his bar mitzvah at that point let alone anything else. w what is fa...

Multi-billion-dollar investments weve made into algorithm systems, machine learning systems, they should be held to account if necessary by regulation, so people can match what our systems say they should do from what actually happens. as i said earlier, you cant design regulation that intervenes in realtime in the way that human beings interact every millisecond of the day. but in terms of trance psptrans yes. >> do you support section 230, the section that holds people to liability, from peopl...

Passes on their platforms. i think the way to perhaps change section 230, my suggestion would be to make that protection, which is afforded to online companies like facebook, contingent on them applying the systems and their policies as theyre supposed to. and if they fail to do that, they would then have that liability protection removed. that seems to us, at least, perhaps a sensible change to consider to section 230. >> one last question before i let you go. for our viewers watching right now...

The liability is too great.