Fake News, Hate Speech and Social Media Abuse: What’s the Solution?
"Underpinning the moves by the social media companies is a law (section 230 of the Communications Decency Act) that that gives them “a modicum of legal protection for the content that exists on their platforms, as long as they don’t veer off too much into editorial functions,” said Andrea Matwyshyn, law professor at Northeastern University and affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Read more about Fake News, Hate Speech and Social Media Abuse: What’s the Solution?