Elon Musk’s X Has Challenge A New York State Law that Requires Social Media Companies to DiscLose How They monitor Hate Speech, Extremism, and Other Contentounts Content.
In a Lawsuit Filed on Tuesday, The Social Media Platform, Formerly Known AS Twitter, Arguues that the Law forces Companies To DiscLose “Highly Sensitive and Contctions. Protected under the Construction’s First Amendment.
New York Attorny General Letia James, Who is in Charg of Ennoforling This Law, is the named Defendant in x’s Lawsuit.
Social Media Sites Have Become the Main Source of News for America, With Majority Consuming it on Networks Like X, According to a New Research from the Reuters Insitue.
Deciding What Content is Acceptable on Social Media Platforms “English Considerable Debate Among Reasonable People About Where to Draw the Correct Proverbial Line,” X SAID. “This is not a role that is the goodnment May Play.”
The Stop Hiding Hate Act, Passed in December, Requires Social Media Companies to DiscLose Steps They Take to Eliminate Hate on themir Platforms, and to report them their Progress.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Two New York State Lawmakers Who Sponsored The Stop Hiding Hate Act Called Social Media Companies Like X “Cesspools of Hate Speech” and Said The Law DID Not Violaate the First Amendment.
Social Media Platforms, Including X, “Have Consently Failred to Invent The Public about them Grace Lee Said.
Neighher New York Attorney General Letia James Nor X Replied to the BBC’s Request for Comment on Tuesday.
X’s Lawsuit Against New York State Comes Nine Months after Content-Modration Policies.
The Companyy ExtnessIVELY CITED ITS earlier Victory in Its Tuesday’s Lawsuit and Criticted New York Lawmakers for Failing to Revisit the Legislation’s Language Even After The California Law Was Largely Struck Download.
Musk, Who Acquire x in 2022, has dramatically scaled back the rules that govern what conten and behaviours are Acceptable on the Platform, According to Progusor Laura Edelson, Who Teaches Computer Science at NortheAStern University.
He has “also signific “This is what, Even Though Rules Aroun Spam Havenge Change on x, there is so much more flooting around.
Last Year, a Feder Judge Dismissed A Lawsuit Broght by Musk Against A Research Group that Documented An UPTICK In Hate Speech on the Site.
