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  • How the War on Terror Set the Stage for Today’s Moderation Wars

    How the War on Terror Set the Stage for Today’s Moderation Wars

    This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two cases that could upend the way we’ve come to understand freedom of speech on the internet. Both Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh ask the court to reconsider how the law interprets Section 230, a regulation that protects companies from legal liability for user-generated content. Gizmodo…


  • Will the U.S. Supreme Court End Social Media as We Know It This Week?

    Will the U.S. Supreme Court End Social Media as We Know It This Week?

    The Supreme Court’s ruling on a pair of ISIS terrorism cases this week will rest on the nine justices’ interpretation of 26 words written in 1996 that collectively have come to define the nature and scope of modern online expression. The ruling could fundamentally alter the types of content social companies are held legally liable…