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Global digital rights advocates are watching to see if Congress acts, worried that other countries could follow suit with app bans of their own.

The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.

The site’s journey from toxic cesspool to trusted news source illustrates the business value of keeping bad actors at bay.

The justices tried to distinguish between persuading social media sites to take down posts, which is permitted, and coercing them, which violates the First Amendment.

Facing an election this weekend and the fallout from Aleksei Navalny’s death and the war in Ukraine, Russia has intensified online censorship using techniques pioneered by China.

The tech industry argues that laws in Florida and Texas, prompted by conservative complaints about censorship, violate the First Amendment. The court’s decision could fundamentally alter the nature of speech on the internet.