Lauren Feiner
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It's not really even much of a decision by the platforms, but what a company chooses to program their algorithm to recommend or not recommend, those are kind of their deliberate choices.
And
We've already had a Supreme Court decision saying that content moderation is basically editorial discretion.
So I think that's where it gets really tricky.
And I think you're right.
That is kind of exactly the sort of thing that people who are advocating for these changes want to see changed, but it's probably the trickiest one to do.
I think we're going to see a lot of discussion in Congress about whether to pass these new laws to repeal Section 230.
But I think where we've seen most of the action has been in the states.
I think we'll probably continue to see that move forward.
I think in the courts, we'll see these cases be appealed.
And at the same time, we're going to see new cases brought.
There's still
You know, in the L.A.
case, there's, I think, over 1,500 cases behind that.
There's several more bellwether trials just in that set of cases that are already scheduled.
The next one, I think, is going to be in a few months.
And then there's a totally different set of bellwether trials in a federal version of these cases with the first one kicking off in June.
And that's, you know, a school district and there's school districts, state AGs, individual plaintiffs.
So this is really not going to slow down at all.
And I think if nothing else, what these trials have done is just brought to light a lot of this information about how these companies work.