WTOP Article RatingElon Musk's social media site X sues California over content moderation law - WTOP News
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The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.
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| "Since taking over Twitter in October 2022, Musk has upended the platform's content moderation system, laying off workers responsible for weeding out problematic content and reinstating accounts baed for engaging in hate speech, promoting Nazi and white nationalist material and harassing users." | Positive | 26% Conservative |
| "In a lawsuit filed Friday against state Attorney General Robert Bonta, X Corp. challenged the constitutionality and legal validity of the law, saying it violates the First Amendment.Assembly bill 587 requires social media platforms to post their content moderation policies -- which they already do -- and twice a year submit a report to the state on how they address hate speech, racism, misinformation, foreign political interference and other issues." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The first-of-its-kind legislation was signed into law a year ago by California Gov. Gavin Newsom." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "The bill's author, Democratic Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, said it is a a pure transparency measure that simply requires companies to be upfront about if and how they are moderating content." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
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63% : Since taking over Twitter in October 2022, Musk has upended the platform's content moderation system, laying off workers responsible for weeding out problematic content and reinstating accounts banned for engaging in hate speech, promoting Nazi and white nationalist material and harassing users.41% : In a lawsuit filed Friday against state Attorney General Robert Bonta, X Corp. challenged the "constitutionality and legal validity" of the law, saying it violates the First Amendment.Assembly bill 587 requires social media platforms to post their content moderation policies -- which they already do -- and twice a year submit a report to the state on how they address hate speech, racism, misinformation, foreign political interference and other issues.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.