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At a parliamentary hearing late last week, Meta once again suggested it could ban links to news on Facebook and Instagram in Australia.

Authorities in talks with Instagram and Facebook about taking part in $6.5m test of online safety measures

Top court declines to rule on Texas and Florida laws, but defends social media platforms’ right to moderate content.

As the Moody v. NetChoice majority noted, the parties focused on Facebook's and YouTube's main feeds. The majority similarly focused on those main feeds in its extensive discussion of First Amendment principles, and, as co-blogger Ilya notes, it left little doubt about the unconstitutionality of the Texas and Florida statutes…

The U.S. Supreme Court has sent back to lower courts the decision about whether states can block social media companies such as Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, from regulating and controlling what users can post on their platforms.

One looksmaxxing app, UMax, ranks higher in the Apple app store charts than TaskRabbit and Zillow Rentals.

In today's Moody v. Netchoice, LLC, the Supreme Court sent back to lower courts the cases considering whether (and when) the Florida and Texas limits on social media content moderation are constitutional. The decision was complicated and limited, so here's a general summary. [1.] Remember that the lawyer's true superpower…

The Court is remanding these two cases for more analysis—but it made its views on some key issues clear.

The US Supreme Court on Monday ordered lower courts to review a pair of Republican-backed laws that imposed restrictions on social media content moderation, in a decision welcomed by the tech industry.

The tech industry saw the measured ruling as a win. Attorney General Ken Paxton vowed to continue defending the law.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, faces EU scrutiny for its ad model violating digital competition rules. Potential fines and investigations highlight ...