A new effort by the Federal Communications Commission to rethink the legal shield that applies to social media sites drew widespread rebukes, as critics faulted the agency for reversing its past positions in the face of mounting public pressure from the White House. The agency’s move threatens to strike at the heart of a critical federal law known as Section 230, which for decades has spared tech giants from being held accountable for the ways they police their platforms.
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