The Supreme Court will rule this year on the constitutionality of a pair of bills from Florida and Texas that would drastically reduce social media platforms’ discretion in removing user content. The ...

When we read about yet another shooting linked to online hate, or another violent network spreading across social media, the common refrain is that “social media platforms must do more.” Indeed, my ...

The subject of online content moderation has been a controversial topic in the country’s political discourse in recent years. It has also been at the center of the nation’s political divide with those ...

The Trump administration’s push to force U.S. control of TikTok has been framed as a national security measure. But for vulnerable communities, the far more urgent question is whether new owners will ...

The Supreme Court sent back to lower courts Monday two challenges to Florida and Texas laws regulating social media platforms, deciding that the judges had to better define the stakes of free-speech ...

As Congress has largely stayed at a standstill over internet policy, the Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in cases that could shake up a broad swath of the online landscape and define how ...

Content moderation is changing the way we speak to each other, for better or worse. On TikTok, we say "le dollar bean" instead of "lesbian" because of a perceived ban on the word; we refer to suicide ...

How Trump’s executive order on online free speech could upend content moderation Will Oremus, tech news analysis writer for The Washington Post, says conservative lawmakers have always viewed ...

Nearly all active message forums need moderation, as unmoderated forums can quickly degenerate into obscenity, slander and even illegal activity. Small businesses in particular often discover, as they ...

SAN FRANCISCO—As long as popular video games depend on online services like matchmaking and chat, those games will suffer from toxicity, harassment, and bullying. Or at least that’s the assumption ...

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