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The ongoing debate about the regulation of social media platforms, including the role of government and the need for transparency and accountability in content moderation.
The factual record for the shows isolated, documented instances of — local arrests, state investigations and a handful of legal challenges — but no vetted evidence that widespread fraud altered the na...
Twitter/X publicly says it reports instances of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — principally the content and accounts that post or share that material — to the National Center for Missing and Expl...
has not publicly enacted a rule banning the word “Epstein”; company spokespeople say there is no policy prohibiting the name and that engineers are investigating why some U.S. users saw the word block...
and ’s public statements about children’s safety online have shifted media coverage from simple celebrity privacy stories to broader debates about , regulation and parental rights, while simultaneousl...
Social media and have accelerated the dissemination of both helpful information and harmful misinformation about (ED), creating a fractured information environment where peer anecdotes, commercial pro...
Satire, and fabricated screenshots have reshaped how public-health-related rumors about political figures circulate during recent elections by making false or misleading more vivid, faster to spread a...
and (which operates YouTube Music) maintain policy frameworks that treat differently depending on format—paid political ads are subject to verification and placement rules, while user-generated politi...
Regulators and courts have acted in some high‑profile cases — most notably a multimillion‑dollar penalty tied to paid actors at city council hearings and civil suits against firms that supply paid pro...
shifts and content-moderation retrenchments have materially shaped the information environment around recent elections by changing what content spreads, who sees it, and how easily organized can move ...
Modern social media platforms and transnational far‑right networks have not merely replayed the decades‑old myth; they have repackaged it into multilingual, platform‑native content that amplifies reac...
A surge of AI-driven “doctor” videos and celebrity endorsements is fuelling fake health-product marketing across social media, and investigators deploy a mix of technical forensics, open-source sleuth...
as a force multiplier for misinformation about policies by enabling rapid, emotionally charged amplification, foreign and domestic actors’ targeted campaigns, and algorithmic echo chambers that priori...
Affiliate marketing has folded the health sector into a high‑stakes attention economy, where wellness brands pay commissions to partners and sometimes lean on doctors’ names or imagery to sell product...
Seeing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in an Instagram Reel can have legal consequences: CSAM is illegal to create, distribute, or possess under U.S. federal law and many other jurisdictions, and p...
Social media platforms respond to Trump-related pedophile conspiracy theories through a mix of takedowns, labeling, algorithmic demotion, and toleration—actions shaped by platform policies, political ...
Social platforms require clear disclosure of paid partnerships using built-in tools or visible labels like “Paid Partnership,” “#ad,” or “Sponsored,” a practice reinforced by FTC guidance and state pr...