In the end, the Section 230 hearing didn’t have much to do with Section 230.
On Tuesday, the president yet again spread misleading information about voting on Twitter and Facebook.
Trump wants the FCC to help him rewrite Section 230, the law that protects the internet as we know it. But the agency isn’t that powerful.
Scrutiny over a New York Post article is reviving accusations of anti-conservative bias at social media companies.
It’s a way to slow down the spread of false information and buy fact-checkers time, experts say.
Can anyone stop QAnon?
The new rules would flag Trump’s tweets if he claims an early victory.
Twitter loves the ads. Does that matter?
You can now limit who is allowed to respond to your tweets, which Twitter says is helping reduce harassment.
Trump’s claims may be dangerous to US election integrity, but the companies say they don’t violate platform policies.
A doctor who thinks alien DNA is used in medicine now says hydroxychloroquine is the cure for Covid-19.
Everyone from Barack Obama to Kanye West tweeted a bitcoin scam that raises concerns about how secure their accounts really are.
And four other ways people are using social media to support nationwide protests.
Following the president’s lead, Republicans are all trying to chip away at Section 230.
The Twitter CEO’s plan to give away $1 billion shows charity is not as hard as billionaires say it is.
Either because they don’t take him seriously or because they don’t want to fight him in public. Or both.
The two tech giants are divided on how to handle Trump’s escalating war on social media.
How a Twitter campaign to help Minneapolis protesters may also help reform America’s unfair bail system.
Unrest in Minneapolis meets the president’s ongoing war on social media.
Legal experts say the executive order is largely toothless — but it could set a symbolic precedent about government censorship of the internet.
100,000 Americans have died of the coronavirus, and Trump is worried about a fact-check on Twitter.
Even if Trump’s executive order tries to shut down social media companies, it would face an immediate court battle.
Twitter’s new reply moderation tool could be a game changer for victims of harassment.
What happens when the medical misinformation comes from the president?
After the president tweeted misleading information about mail-in ballots, Twitter applied a warning label to Trump’s tweets for the first time.
Following in the footsteps of Facebook, Twitter is flagging coronavirus hoaxes and misinformation for users.
Despite what the internet might be telling you, cellphones did not cause the Covid-19 pandemic.
Meet three people whose tweets about surviving Covid-19 briefly made them internet famous.
The Twitter and Square founder is making an unexpected and important philanthropic push in response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Twitter and the New York Times are crucial, but advertisers are pulling away. Expect to see that across media.
New viewers are seeing Cats for the first time, and they’re picking up on one little thing that’s missing.
The investor who wants to fire Dorsey just made a deal that makes an eventual Dorsey exit more likely.
The State Department seems unusually secretive in its reports on coronavirus disinformation.
Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok are all battling misinformation related to the novel coronavirus.
Don’t come in, please.
“Activist investor” Elliott Management has targeted Dorsey, who runs Twitter and Square at the same time.
The Bloomberg campaign’s controversial tweets fictitiously quoting Bernie Sanders, briefly explained.
Leaked design plans reveal that the company is thinking about putting bright red and orange labels on false tweets by politicians and public figures.
“This video is deceptive and misleading,” an expert told Vox.
The social media platform will ban deepfakes and other manipulated media that could cause “serious harm.” The ban won’t apply to a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi from last year.