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Appeals Court Upholds Social Media Hateful Content Law

New York State’s Court of Appeals has upheld a state law requiring social media firms to have “mechanisms for reporting hateful content,” saying it does not violate free speech rights, Courthouse News Service reports. The purpose of the law was to empower social media users by “equipping them with the mechanisms and information they need to bring hateful conduct to networks’ attention, and to identify those platforms whose policies condone such content,” the majority wrote. 

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