Florida’s New Social Media Law Will Be Laughed Out of Court
Florida’s new social media legislation is a double landmark: It’s the first state law regulating online content moderation, and it
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WarnerMedia, Discovery, and the New Age of Media Consolidation
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,
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On Social Media, American-Style Free Speech Is Dead
For the first time in human history, we can measure a lot of this stuff with an exciting amount of
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Scalise blasts Big Tech, social media execs over censorship: ‘These aren’t mistakes’
House Minority Whip Steve Scalise slammed social media executives, including Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, for censorship “mistakes” and “abuses”, primarily
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Social Media CEOs Can’t Defend Their Business Model
Anyone who has been paying any attention at all knows that big social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
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Social Media Reminds Us of the Year That Wasn’t
The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes,
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Political divide forms social media relationships, says MIT
Researchers at MIT Sloan School of Management found that politics is the tie that binds strangers on social media. Democrats
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Local West Virginia newspaper slams Big Tech for ‘manipulating’ digital media
The owner of a local West Virginia newspaper company is fighting back against Big Tech giants for monopolizing digital media.
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Texas faces difficult road with bill to go after social media censorship: Biotech entrepreneur
Texas has a huge mountain to climb to curtail Big Tech’s power of squelching free speech, biotech entrepreneur and author Vivek
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The Strange Theater of Watching the Inauguration on Social Media
In the end, it all came down to optics. Inauguration Day usually includes at least a few hundred thousand people
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