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On Friday, the Supreme Court docket agreed to determine if two legal guidelines crafted by Republicans in Florida and Texas run afoul of the First Modification as a result of the legal guidelines drive platforms to elucidate all their content material moderation selections to customers.
Each legal guidelines, handed in 2021 after a number of main platforms banned Donald Trump, seemingly have been a approach for Republicans to struggle again and stop supposedly liberal-leaning platforms from allegedly censoring conservative viewpoints.
The legal guidelines are designed to cease the preferred platforms from inconsistently censoring content material by requiring platforms to supply detailed explanations to customers every time their posts are eliminated or their accounts are banned or “shadowbanned” (deprioritized or restricted from feeds by platforms’ algorithms). The Texas legislation additionally requires platforms to supply clear paths to well timed enchantment censored content material, and each legal guidelines require platforms to publicly disclose requirements for when and why they censor customers.
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