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A Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel asked California on Wednesday why a state law requiring social media platforms to disclose their policies about moderating hate speech and disinformation doesn’t amount to a violation of the First Amendment.
The three-judge panel took up X Corp.’s appeal of a federal judge’s refusal to block what California Governor Gavin Newsom in 2022 said was a first-of-its-kind social media transparency law to protect Californians from hate and disinformation spread online.
The law, AB 587, requires large social media businesses with annual revenue over $100 million to provide the state with reports about how they define and moderate content like hate speech, extremism, harassment and misinformation, as well as data on their enforcement of these policies.
