The Department of Justice has proposed a series of rollbacks of protections for online platforms that would encourage them to police their content, more fruit borne from an ongoing feud between President Donald Trump and social media companies like Twitter and Facebook.
The DOJ proposal, released Wednesday, would require online platforms to be more aggressive in policing harmful and illegal content on their sites and to implement policies to police, label, and even remove objectionable content on their platforms. The proposed rule changes would also promote transparency, the DOJ said, by forcing online platforms to be held accountable for their actions.
