Content Moderation

On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL), the parent company of Google, which owns YouTube, demanding it turn over communications with the executive branch regarding content moderation and alleged government pressure to censor speech. What...

Editor’s Note: This story has been updated with a statement from Meta Platforms. Internal documents from Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META) reportedly indicate a policy designed to protect high-spending advertisers from automated content moderation. What Happened: The documents from 2023...

Elon Musk’s X, formerly Twitter, has won an appeal against a California law that mandates social media companies to disclose their policies against disinformation and hate speech. What Happened: On Wednesday, Musk took to X and praised X’s legal team for winning the appeal. He said...

Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) is launching a separate, third-party fact-checking program for its social media platform Threads. What Happened: Head of Instagram Adam Mosseri announced the fact-checking program on a Thread late Tuesday night. “…we recently rolled out the ability for...

Elon Musk’s X Corp. (previously Twitter Inc.) has initiated a lawsuit against California’s content moderation law, arguing that it violates their First Amendment rights.  What Happened: X has aimed Assembly Bill No. 587 (AB 587), signed into law by California Governor ...

ChatGPT-parent OpenAI has been using GPT-4, its latest publicly available large language model to moderate content – and suggested social media platforms like Meta Platforms Inc.’s (NASDAQ:META) Facebook, Instagram, and Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter, to explore new avenues of...

Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ: GOOGL) (NASDAQ: GOOG) video-sharing platform YouTube is shifting back to human moderators for monitoring online content after months of increased reliance on artificial intelligence, according to the Financial Times. What Happened: It may seem that using...