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American Modern Launches Digital Social Media Toolkit for Agents

Apr 15 2021 // American Modern, a specialty insurance provider of residential and recreational coverage, has launched Social To Go, an online toolkit designed to give agents ways to effectively use social media.According to Kevin...

Bills Regulating Social Media Advance in Florida Legislature

Mar 17 2021 // Florida lawmakers plunged deeper Monday into the politically fraught task of attempting to regulate social media and other Big Tech companies, which some Republicans accuse of bias against conservatives.The House...

How a Social Media Fad Is Turning into a Cyber, Fraud Risk for Insurers

Mar 3 2021 // Anyone who uses social media has probably come across deepfakes, which refer to media such as videos, photos or audio that have been modified using artificial intelligence.Deepfakes have become increasingly common in...

The Hidden Risk in Social Media Marketing

Feb 8 2021 // This post is part of a series sponsored by Hanover Insurance Group Inc.The explosive growth of digital marketing has encouraged companies to increasingly lean into social media as a way to reach their audiences. This has...

Senators Offer Bill to Limit Liability Shield for Social Media Firms

Feb 8 2021 // Three Democratic U.S. senators introduced a bill that would limit Section 230, a law that shields online companies from liability over content posted by users, and make the companies more accountable when posts result in...

FCC Appears Unlikely to Act on Trump Bid to Change Social Media Liability

Jan 6 2021 // The prospects of Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai taking action on an effort to narrow social media companies’ legal protections under a 1996 law are increasingly unlikely.Both Pai and U.S....

Florida School District Drops Request for Parkland Parents’ Social Media Posts

Dec 15 2020 // A Florida school district abruptly dropped its request Thursday that the families of students and staff slain in a 2018 high school massacre be required to turn over their social media posts from that period as it tries to...

FCC Says It Has Authority to Change Social Media Liability Shield

Oct 22 2020 // The top lawyer at the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said Wednesday the telecommunications regulator has legal authority to redefine the immunity shield protecting social media companies that could make it...

FCC Chief Vows to Advance New Social Media Company Liability Rules

Oct 16 2020 // Federal Communications Commission chairman Ajit Pai said Thursday the agency will move forward to set new rules to clarify the meaning of a key legal protection for social media companies.The announcement came as...

No Action Yet on Trump Social Media Liability Proposal

Oct 8 2020 // The Federal Communications Commission has given no indication it will move quickly on an effort by President Donald Trump to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content and require new...

4 Republican Attorneys General Back Trump Social Media Liability Move

Sep 8 2020 // Four Republican state attorneys general led by Texas backed President Donald Trump’s push to narrow the ability of social media companies to remove objectionable content and require new transparency rules.Texas,...

Internet Companies Urge FCC to Reject Trump Rules on Social Media Liability

Sep 3 2020 // A group representing major internet companies including Facebook Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google on Wednesday urged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject a Trump administration bid to...

Trump Seeks Dismissal of Legal Challenge to Executive Order by Social Media Firms

Aug 14 2020 // The Trump administration has filed a motion asking a court to dismiss a lawsuit against the president’s executive order targeting social media companies, calling it a “profound misunderstanding,”...

Trump Administration Wants FCC to Write Rules on Liability for Social Media Content

Jul 28 2020 // A U.S. Commerce Department agency on Monday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reinterpret a 1996 law to require transparency in how social media companies moderate content, after President Donald Trump...

Justice Department Outlines Proposed Overhaul of Social Media Immunity

Jun 19 2020 // The Justice Department on Wednesday outlined a broad overhaul of legal protections for online platforms such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. if they deliberately promote illegal speech on their...

How Americans Feel About Social Media Content Liability, Moderation

Jun 17 2020 // Most Americans do not trust social media companies to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms, but trust the government even less to make those choices, according to a poll released on...

Tech Group Sues Trump Over Order Weakening Social Media Immunity

Jun 3 2020 // An advocacy group backed by the tech industry sued President Donald Trump on Tuesday over his executive order that would weaken a law protecting online platforms including social media companies that label or fact-check...

Trump Plans Legislation Targeting Social Media Immunity

May 29 2020 // President Donald Trump said he will introduce legislation that may scrap or weaken a law that has protected internet companies, including Twitter and Facebook, in an extraordinary attempt to regulate social media platforms...

Trump Executive Order Aims to Shrink Liability Shield for Social Media Giants

May 28 2020 // Donald Trump has been raging against Twitter Inc. since the social media platform that helped vault him to the presidency slapped fact-check links on a pair of his tweets.Now, he’s poised to take action Thursday that...

California Probing Facebook, Says Social Media Company Stonewalling

Nov 7 2019 // California revealed for the first time an 18-month investigation into Facebook Inc.’s privacy practices and accused the social media giant on Wednesday of hampering the probe by failing to turn over emails from Chief...