Social Media

In a 5-to-4 vote, the court granted a request from Big Tech industry trade groups, which argued the law would unleash a flood of racist, hateful and other extremist content on social media platforms.

Tech industry groups are urging the Supreme Court to block a Texas law barring social media companies from removing posts or banning users based on political viewpoints.

A group of Texas middle-schoolers won NPR's 4th-annual Student Podcast Challenge, and learned a lesson about fake news and the limits of "talking digitally."

Conservative critics said Austin ISD was encouraging students not to tell their parents what they were learning during discussions of LGBTQ issues in class.

House Bill 20, which was set to take effect Dec. 2, would have let Texas users banned by social media platforms to sue for reinstatement or have the state attorney general sue on their behalf.

House Bill 20’s primary Senate sponsor argued that social media platforms are the modern equivalent of “common carriers” and should be treated as such in terms of protecting freedom of speech.

The social network says it will focus on groups, pages and accounts repeatedly sharing false claims about vaccines.

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