A new bipartisan Senate bill amends Section 230 to make commercial social media platforms responsible if their recommendation systems cause foreseeable harms
A new bill would hold social media platforms responsible for foreseeable algorithmic harms.
Democratic senators helping Trump's strongest Senate allies repeal Section 230 could give the Trump administration unprecedented power to control online speech
At the exact moment when Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are actively dismantling democratic institutions and working to silence critics …
Source: US Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham plan to introduce a bipartisan bill with wide support that would make Section 230 expire on January 1, 2027
In June 1995, two young congressmen reached across the aisle to introduce legislation that would become the defining legal protection …
Trump names FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr as FCC chair; Carr floated limiting Section 230 and says the FCC has “an important role to play reining in Big Tech”
- Senior Republican on panel seeks to rein in tech, backs Musk — Carr wrote a chapter of Project 2025 on the FCC's priorities
Source: TikTok is paying dozens of creators to visit DC next week and lobby lawmakers against a forced sale, ahead of CEO Shou Zi Chew's testimony on March 23
TikTok's planning to flood the nation's capital with “dozens” … The Economic Times : US justice department investigating TikTok's owner for ‘spying’ on journos: report Rebecca Falconer / Axios : TikTo...
A look at GOP plans for Big Tech if they retake the House: few new laws, hearings on Meta, Twitter, Google, and others, chipping away at Section 230, and more
Anna Edgerton / Bloomberg :
The White House unveils six proposals for tech policy reform aimed at competition, algorithms, and safety on social platforms, and suggests Section 230 changes
for a Good Reason Alfonso Maruccia / TechSpot : White House consults experts, lays down a six-point plan to increase Big Tech accountability GovTech : White House Outlines Guiding Principles for Big T...
The White House unveils six proposals for tech policy reform aimed at competition, algorithms, and safety on social platforms, and suggests Section 230 changes
The White House on Thursday praised “bipartisan interest in Congress in passing legislation to protect privacy” …
The Senate Judiciary Committee advances the EARN IT Act, targeting Section 230 sexual exploitation content protections, despite numerous free speech concerns
Russell Brandom / The Verge :
Bipartisan House bill would force tech platforms to offer an “input-transparent algorithm” that doesn't require user data to generate recommendations
letting all kinds of awful content flow, and saying “the law won't let us hide hate anymore!” (You know they'd do this.) Anil Dash / @anildash : More broadly, this class of solutions to tech tend to i...