California rolls back social media law

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00:00The blue state of California is a pet target of hate-mongering from conservatives,

00:04especially Trump's rabid band of MAGA supporters.

00:07And before Elon Musk drops out of Doge to return to managing his businesses,

00:12he managed to help force California to abandon its requirement

00:15of mandating content moderation in the social media sphere.

00:19VOA's Matt Dibble has more in this report he filed from Silicon Valley.

00:25California recently agreed to roll back a state law

00:28requiring social media companies to disclose how they moderate hate speech,

00:33disinformation, and other potentially harmful content on their platforms.

00:38The 2022 law was originally sponsored by California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, a Democrat.

00:45The bill seeks to address concerns that social media platforms are enabling the spread of hate,

00:51racism, extremists, violence, and conspiracy theories.

00:54But a 2023 lawsuit by Elon Musk's X, formerly Twitter, challenged that law,

01:00which required platforms to file public reports on their content moderation practices twice a year.

01:06A federal appeals court sided with X last year,

01:10ruling that the law violated the social media company's constitutional right to free speech.

01:15X did not immediately reply to a request for comment for this story.

01:19X's argument revolves around the claim that requiring reporting around their decisions

01:27about different types of content and how to respond to it

01:30is infringement on their First Amendment rights

01:33because these reports could be a form of compulsory speech

01:36and it would be an interference in, you know,

01:40what you could think of as their editorial discretion.

01:42Bill could face hurdles in the Senate.

01:44States have been trying, but failing, to regulate social media content policies.

01:50Florida and Texas, two states with majority Republican electorates,

01:54both passed laws limiting social media companies' ability

01:57to police political speech on their sites.

02:00But those laws were put on hold last year

02:02when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in what is now known as the net choice cases

02:07that media companies have the right to make editorial decisions

02:10free from government interference.

02:12The same First Amendment issues arise in many of these laws,

02:16whether it's a question of anti-conservative bias

02:19or a question of hate speech or mis- and disinformation.

02:23And hopefully kind of following on with that litigation

02:26from the net choice cases in the Supreme Court decision,

02:29we'll continue to see the First Amendment hold strong

02:32so that we continue to see the benefits of free speech on law.

02:36Social media platforms have become a hot...

02:38Attempts to regulate social media at the state level continue on, though.

02:42In December, New York enacted a law closely modeled on California's reporting law.

02:48Matt Dibble, VOA News, Oakland, California.

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