This performance was met with widespread derision; on Twitter, Trump’s own recently fired election security czar, Christopher Krebs, called it “the most dangerous 1hr 45 minutes of television in ...

The law has protected Facebook and other social media giants from legal liability. As a whistleblower casts blame, lawmakers say it should be changed to hold companies accountable. Marguerite Reardon ...

In the nearly 27 years since the United States Congress passed Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, courts have broadly interpreted it to protect online communities for being legally ...

In 2014, three victims of online sex trafficking, all minors, filed a lawsuit against Backpage, a classified advertising website similar to Craigslist. The plaintiffs argued that the website, which ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, this time with a Republican Congress backing him up, change may soon ...

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a fairly obscure—yet vitally important—law that has shaped the modern internet has suddenly been thrust into the political spotlight in recent months.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order curtailing Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act on May 28, which directly challenged a law that protects tech giants like Twitter from ...