Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This is a bad moment for fact-checking. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of ...

Meta Platforms Inc. will soon cut back on its use of third-party vendors to help with content moderation, relying instead on ...

A new study has suggested that the transformation of Twitter into X under Elon Musk marks the rise of a new, illiberal regime of governing social media platforms, which can be controlled by one person ...

New York Attorney General Letitia James is urging a federal judge to reject X Corp.'s bid to strike down a state law requiring large social platforms to disclose their content moderation policies and ...

Kevin Guo cofounded Hive in 2014 as a consumer app and later pivoted the business to sell its internal content moderation AI software to customers. AI-generated content, from illegal images of child ...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has taken a lot of heat since he announced recently that he is pulling his company out of the fact-checking business and curtailing content moderation on its platforms. The ...

This is a bad moment for fact-checking. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order titled “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship,” which targets social media ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in February 2025, launched a request for information seeking public comment about how social media platforms’ “adverse actions” against users and user content may ...

The FTC announcement invites all of those people and others who feel they have been wronged by tech-platform content decisions to submit a comment on its site by May 21. That input will be posted ...

Anyone who spends time on social media knows that it’s hard to avoid misinformation, abusive language and offensive content. Platforms like Facebook and YouTube have content moderation systems ...

Zuckerberg's free speech reforms at Meta spark advertiser concerns over harmful content and misinformation risks. Meta replaces Nick Clegg with Republican ally Joel Kaplan, alarming advertisers over ...