Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Tuesday the company — which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — will end its fact-checking program and overhaul its policies to favor free speech over strict ...

A new briefing paper produced by the London Social Media Observatory (LSMO) at Royal Holloway and Westminster Foundation for ...

While major social-media platforms like X and Meta have slackened content-moderation efforts and slashed third-party fact-checking, up-and-coming microblogging app Bluesky amplified its efforts in ...

Today is the deadline for public comments regarding a "public inquiry" by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) into the "potentially illegal" content moderation practices of social media platforms. As ...

Periodically, the worlds of advertising and partisan politics collide. An impassioned and often politicized debate has taken center stage around the value of walled garden content moderation. There ...

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 ...

A shareholder proposal sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) affiliate JLens has the backing of Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and Glass Lewis & Co. Both proxy advisory firms are ...

Two state laws that could upend the way social media companies handle content moderation are still in limbo after a Supreme Court ruling sent the challenges back to lower courts, vacating previous ...

Social media platforms have historically run their content moderation much like a parent running a house full of teenagers: If you live under my roof, you follow my rules. But as social media has ...

As policies for content moderation and fact-checking enter a new era, one startup is turning to artificial intelligence, rather than humans, to enforce trust and safety measures. Stream NBC 5 for free ...

AI startup Mistral has launched a new API for content moderation. The API, which is the same API that powers moderation in Mistral’s Le Chat chatbot platform, can be tailored to specific applications ...