X Corp. has lost a bid to temporarily block a California law requiring social media companies to disclose their terms of service and submit semiannual reports to the state about how they moderate content.
U.S. District Judge William Shubb on Thursday denied X’s (formerly Twitter) motion for a preliminary injunction, finding that the reporting requirements aren’t “unjustified or unduly burdensome within the context of First Amendment law.” While compliance may carry a substantial burden, he concluded that the mandated disclosures are “uncontroversial” and “merely requires” identification of existing content moderation policies.
X in September sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta after the passage of Ab 587, which requires large social media companies to post their terms of service and submit reports of how their content moderation policies address hate speech or racism, extremism or radicalization, disinformation or misinformation, harassment and foreign political interference. It alleged that the law...
U.S. District Judge William Shubb on Thursday denied X’s (formerly Twitter) motion for a preliminary injunction, finding that the reporting requirements aren’t “unjustified or unduly burdensome within the context of First Amendment law.” While compliance may carry a substantial burden, he concluded that the mandated disclosures are “uncontroversial” and “merely requires” identification of existing content moderation policies.
X in September sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta after the passage of Ab 587, which requires large social media companies to post their terms of service and submit reports of how their content moderation policies address hate speech or racism, extremism or radicalization, disinformation or misinformation, harassment and foreign political interference. It alleged that the law...
- 12/29/2023
- by Winston Cho
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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