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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 ...

The Oversight Board, a body created by Meta to review content moderation policies, issued guidance on March 26 about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Content moderation has always been a nightmare for Meta. Its new content-moderation policy is a huge change — and it could be an ...

LinkedIn rolled out a new content moderation framework that’s a breakthrough in optimizing moderation queues, reducing the time to catch policy violations by 60%. This technology may be the future of ...

A federal judge in California has shot down Elon Musk’s attempt to invalidate a state social media law, first reported by The Verge. The state’s AB 587 requires social companies to publish their ...

LGBTQ+ apps are seeing a surge of interest after Meta's content moderation changes. Business Insider spoke with several founders building apps about the influx of users. The apps are focused on safety ...

Meta Platforms Inc. plans to make a set of sweeping changes to its fact-checking and content moderation policies, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced in a video released this morning. In 2016, ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to eliminate censorship and content moderation policies blindsided several members of the company’s oversight board — and the U-turn has led to friction among the ...

Mark Zuckerberg's changes to Meta's content-moderation policies are potentially huge. To fully understand their gravity, it's useful to look at how Meta got here. And to consider what these changes ...

"The timing of this announcement, just days before the inauguration of President-elect Trump, raises red flags. It suggests an effort to appease a political faction that has in the past accused Meta ...