CDT Joins Letter to Social Media Platforms Reiterating Importance of Curbing the Spread of Disinformation Before U.S. Midterms
In a follow-up to a letter sent in May, the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) again joined a coalition of organizations in urging social media platforms to take measures curbing the spread of election disinformation before the U.S. midterms.
The signatories noted the platforms’ recent announcement of the policies that will be in place during this immediate pre-election period. They also highlighted the importance of addressing false narratives around past elections, which has become embedded in American political discourse. Finally, they urged the platforms to invest more resources in preventing the spread of non-English disinformation.
Not All Guardrails Are Created Equal: Comparing Content Safety and Copyright Filtering
As courts and policymakers work through questions about chatbot liability, they should be wary of analogies that flatten meaningful technical differences. Copyright filtering and safety intervention share real challenges around ambiguity and evasion, but they diverge in what each control must assess, how each manifests over the course of a conversation, and how much can be verified from the outside.
Op-Ed: France’s Constitutional Council Ruling Tests the Limits of Social Media Bans
Read our analysis the legal and policy significance of the Constitutional Council’s decision on ongoing social media age restriction and age assurance debates ahead of the most-anticipated EU-wide approach on child online safety due by December 2026.
The brief explains that Section 230’s liability protections are essential to enable free expression online and they extend to the use of automated systems to engage to rank and order content as part of traditional publishing activities.
