While a federal law typically shields internet companies from lawsuits over content posted by users, the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit ...

In a decision on Monday, US District Judge Casey Pitts in San Jose, California said Australia's second-richest person can try to prove that...

Republican Josh Hawley and Democrat Richard Blumenthal announced the bill that would create an AI carve-out to Section 230, a law that shie...

What the court decides about those issues is relevant beyond social media platforms. Its ruling could influence the emerging debate over wh...

Relatives of Nawras Alassaf accused Twitter of aiding and abetting the Islamic State group, which claimed responsibility for the January 1,...

U.S. Supreme Court justices on Tuesday expressed uncertainty over whether to narrow a legal shield protecting internet companies from a wid...

The tech industry is facing criticism from the left for not doing enough to remove harmful content from the internet and from the right for...

Enacted when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was just 11 years old and Google's creation still two years off, Section 230 is seen as a fun...

In a major case to be argued at the US Supreme Court on Tuesday, the nine justices will address the scope of Section 230 for the first time...

In the wake of an assault on Paul Pelosi, the House speaker’s husband, Klobuchar said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that technology companies a...

The justices took up an appeal by the parents and other relatives of Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old woman from California who was studying ...

The White House had repeatedly called for revoking Section 230, a law that shields online companies from liability over content posted by u...

Big Tech's decisions to block some posts and videos while letting other content viewed as inflammatory proliferate have drawn the ire of Re...

The technology industry and others have long held that Section 230 is a crucial protection, though the statute has become increasingly cont...

The hearing will discuss a legal immunity known as Section 230 that technology companies have when it comes to liability over content poste...

The US Justice Department unveiled a legislative proposal on Wednesday that seeks to reform a legal immunity for internet companies and fol...

In India, the government has been looking to make social media sites more accountable for content on their platforms.