Analysis | The Technology 202: Lawmakers plan to ratchet up pressure on tech companies' content moderation practices

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The Technology 202: Lawmakers plan to ratchet up pressure on tech companies' content moderation practices

for how they could fine companies for failing to takedown a broad range of harmful speech, from violent content to disinformation. As the U.K. and Australia become some of the first countries to consider such regulations, their actions could influence how policymakers around the world broach content moderation issues.

Rep. Karen Bass told Tony regulations should be examined. Rep. Cedric L. Richmond told him that regulation may be necessary to govern how companies address harmful content. He said technology companies should play a role in shaping what that regulation should look like and pitch a proposal. “They better go do it because what they don't want is for us to do it, because we're not going to get it right,” Richmond said.

“Accordingly, we respectfully request that the FTC consider publicly disclosing whether it is conducting an investigation of Google and/or other major online platforms and describe, in general terms, the nature of the conduct under examination in any such investigations,” they also wrote. NIBBLES: The European Union on Tuesday unveiled a new set of guidelines to steer the way companies and governments ethically develop artificial intelligence,The principles call for accountable, explainable and unbiased AI systems.

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AKA ramping up the censorship

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