The law has protected Facebook and other social media giants from legal liability. As a whistleblower casts blame, lawmakers say it should be changed to hold companies accountable. Marguerite Reardon ...

Section 230 grants broad legal protections to websites that host user-generated content. It is widely recognized as the reason that platforms like Facebook and Google exist in their current form. The ...

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Section 230 is a part of federal legislation passed more than 20 years ago. It runs only 26-words long—short and to the point. But it has had an outsize affect on life as we know it. They are the “26 ...

In the nearly 27 years since the United States Congress passed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, courts have broadly interpreted it to protect online communities for being legally ...

In 2014, three victims of online sex trafficking, all minors, filed a lawsuit against Backpage, a classified advertising website similar to Craigslist. The plaintiffs argued that the website, which ...

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When a US Army reservist found herself at the center of a conspiracy about the coronavirus earlier this year, her life was upended. Hoax peddlers on the internet falsely claimed that Maatje Benassi ...

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has been critical to the development of today’s Internet and Internet services. But the expanding presence of these services in the lives of Americans and ...

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