When we read about yet another shooting linked to online hate, or another violent network spreading across social media, the common refrain is that “social media platforms must do more.” Indeed, my ...

YouTube quietly loosened its video moderation rules a few weeks before Donald Trump was sworn in as president a second time, reports the New York Times. The new rules encourage the site’s moderators ...

"Sociable" is the latest commentary on important social media developments and trends from industry expert Andrew Hutchinson of Social Media Today. Will Meta’s decision this week to loosen its ...

Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp, today announced a major overhaul of its content moderation policies, taking off some guardrails that it had put in place over several years, in ...

One of the main arguments advanced to justify the Florida and Texas social media laws challenged in NetChoice v. Paxton and Moody v. NetChoice, (cases currently before the Supreme Court) is the claim ...

Automated moderation on social media is blocking Arabic sexual and reproductive health content, leaving activists scrambling to keep vital information accessible. In early 2025, Instagram and TikTok ...

The European Union is preparing to treat WhatsApp less like a private messenger and more like a powerful broadcast platform, ...

WhatsApp is the latest platform to enter the European Union’s regulatory spotlight. Meta’s popular messaging service is now preparing to comply with tougher transparency and content moderation rules.

“The EU’s executive branch, the European Commission, plans to designate WhatsApp’s open channels as a ‘Very Large Online Platform’ under the Digital Services Act, meaning it must meet high standards ...

“But unlike Meta and X, YouTube has not made public statements about relaxing its content moderation. The online video service introduced its new policy in mid-December in training material that was ...