Section 230 is the legal “shield” that lets regular people post without platforms getting sued into dust for every comment.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg defended his company in a Los Angeles court as part of a landmark civil trial over social media. The 20-year-old plaintiff says she became addicted to social media as a child, ...

Courts are weighing whether Meta, Google, and other platforms can be held responsible for algorithm-driven harm to children ...

The law has survived the dot-com bubble and the Supreme Court, but it’s up against potentially larger challenges. The law has survived the dot-com bubble and the Supreme Court, but it’s up against ...

Lawmakers are renewing a push to take away the legal provision that shields social media companies from liability over content their users post on their platforms. It’s a move that could reshape how ...

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt visited Capitol Hill Wednesday to advocate for a bill sunsetting Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a controversial provision that protects companies from facing ...

Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois, and Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, introduced the Sunset Section 230 Act, saying the legislation is outdated. Trump wanted airport, station named after him in return ...

Among political conservatives, there is no hotter potato at the moment than the civil liability protections afforded by Section 230 to online operators. Unless Republicans learn to love it again and ...

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last week has reignited the political debate over reforming a federal law that shields social media companies from liability over the content ...

In 1996, Congress passed a well-meaning law called Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to help internet platforms grow. It was supposed to protect online forums from liability for what their ...

Repealing Section 230 would not curb Big Tech dominance or protect free speech — it would silence smaller platforms, crush innovation, and consolidate power in Silicon Valley by exposing internet ...