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Your right to participate and my right to exclude : The proper role of government in social media
January 15, 2025 | By GUS SMYTHE
In 2021, the Texas Legislature passed Texas House Bill 20, a law that bars social media platforms like Facebook, X, and WhatsApp from banning, censoring, or manually demoting accounts within a social media platform's algorithm so that fewer people see their content based on what those accounts have posted (de-boosting). This bill and others like it ...