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Section 230

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159 articles stable

Section 230 has appeared in 159 articles since 2018-06. Coverage peaked in 2023Q1 with 9 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Twitter, Facebook, Trump, Google.

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The $6 Million Precedent
A Los Angeles jury awarded $6 million to one plaintiff. Meta lost roughly $150 billion in market cap. The ratio — 25,000 to 1 — is the story. Two juries in two ...

Coverage Timeline

2024-03-31
Wall Street Journal

Several legal experts say Section 230 will not protect firms from lawsuits over the outputs of generative AI, echoing SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch's 2023 statement

especially when it makes a mistake.” … Forums: r/aiwars : The AI Industry Is Steaming Toward A Legal Iceberg: Several legal experts say Section 230 will not protect firms from lawsuits over the output...

2024-03-30
Wall Street Journal

Several legal experts say Section 230 will not protect firms from lawsuits over the outputs of generative AI, echoing SCOTUS Justice Gorsuch's 2023 statement

Legal scholars, lawmakers and at least one Supreme Court justice agree that companies will be liable for the things their AIs say and do … Mastodon: @statesdj@genomic.social and @mimsical@mastodon.soc...

2023-06-14
Axios 1 related

Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce a bill denying Section 230 protections for generative AI content; experts are split on whether §230 applies

Sens. Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal want to clarify that the internet's bedrock liability law does not apply to generative AI …

2023-03-08
Rolling Stone 1 related

At CPAC 2023, Google, Meta, Twitter, and other tech giants remained central villains, including a Section 230 repeal panel; Truth Social and GETTR were absent

CPAC showed how the MAGA movement still can't decide whether its problem is too much Silicon Valley or not enough faves

2022-11-03
The Verge

Whenever US politicians talk about changing Section 230 or regulating Big Tech and websites, they are almost always talking about imperiling the First Amendment

The First Amendment is one of America's most distinctive pieces of law.  But as the midterm — and, quickly, the presidential … Tweets: @evan_greer , @thedextriarchy , @navinram999 , @reckless , and @s...

2022-04-27
Techdirt 20 related

Twitter has aggressively defended users' privacy and free speech rights, pushing back on unmasking subpoenas, but it's unclear if this will continue under Musk

and possibly Elon himself — seem to think the Twitter algorithm actually works like this https://twitter.com/... Mike Masnick / @mmasnick : The guy bleating on for years about “cancel culture” is dema...

2022-04-23
CNBC 17 related

In a speech on disinformation, Obama said social media firms' design choices contribute to polarization, and called for more transparency and Section 230 reform

including over the First Amendment—I didn't expect to find much to agree with in this speech. But it's actually very good, and worth reading, even if I don't agree with all of it. THREAD https://techp...

2022-04-22
CNBC 19 related

In a speech on disinformation, Obama said social media firms' design choices contribute to polarization, and called for more transparency and Section 230 reform

- Former President Barack Obama criticized social media companies for contributing to polarization through design choices on their platforms.

2022-02-22
CNET 36 related

Trump Media & Technology Group debuts Truth Social on the US App Store, where the free app hit No. 1; some users got errors or were waitlisted when signing up

Market summary: 📊  —  India opened the week lower, as investors struggle to read Putin's mood. James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social debuts today in rocky start W...

2021-12-12
New York Times

Congressional hearings with tech CEOs and execs in the past few years have yielded no new laws amid partisan divides over issues like privacy and misinformation

Holding a hearing that humbles the most powerful business executives in the world is much easier than legislating. Tweets: @ceciliakang , @brandyzadrozny , @colincrowell , @nytpolitics , @nytimesbusin...

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Quarterly Coverage

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Section 230 has appeared in 134 Techmeme articles since June 2018. The biggest stories include A recap of oral arguments before SCOTUS in Gonzalez v. Google, where justices appeared to... and Trump names FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr as FCC chair; Carr floated limiting Section 230.... Frequently covered alongside Trump, Twitter, Facebook, Google, and FCC.

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2024Q3developer +25pts; consumer -33pts; regulation -75pts
2024Q4safety +50pts; developer -25pts; regulation +25pts
2025Q1safety -50pts; regulation -17pts

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