Barr: Social Media Platforms that Censor Content Should Lose Section 230 ‘Shield’

Thursday at the White House, Attorney General Bill Barr detailed how social media companies have abused Section 230, a provision developed 25 years ago aimed at providing protection for “websites that were serving as essentially bulletin boards for diverse, third party content.” Today, Barr argued, social media companies have become “publishers” “when they put on their own content like fact check.”


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