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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 reshaping human behavior.

Back to the Future for Section 230 Reform The U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. (JStephanMease, https://tinyurl.com/y6v5bjvy; CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is on the agenda for both Congress and the Biden administration this year—all the more so after the renewed discussion around technology platforms sparked by the U.S. Capitol riot and President Trump’s subsequent deplatforming from major social media platforms. Just recently, members of Congress and congressional aides reported conversations with th...

  The presidential campaign of Joe Biden received considerable donations from employees of tech companies, campaign finance records reveal, with Apple employees reportedly the fourth-largest source of funding. President Joe Biden's campaign and supporting joint fundraising committees saw a high level of donations from employees linked to the five tech giants for the 2020 election, an investigation reveals. Employees from Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, and Facebook provided at least $15.1 million in total to the campaign. The employee donations from each company, collected by the main ...

February 17, 2021 10:20 PMLegal - By LOS ANGELES—New legislation from three Senate Democrats would create the broadest exceptions to online speech protections yet proposed. After more than a year of threats to Section 230, the “First Amendment of the Internet,” under the Donald Trump administration, Democrats in the United States Senate have introduced a new bill to “reform” the 25-year-old law in ways that, according to one top free speech lawyer, appears to be “a new idea to destroy Section 230.” Speaking February 11 at the #interNEXT2021 conference, attorney Corey Siverstein...

As one front in a battle against big tech influence and power, more Democratic leaders are examining Section 230 of the Communications Decency act, and its role in protecting tech companies.