Free-speech norms and powerful tech companies make legal restrictions unlikely—but social changes are already taking place.

A federal judge has blocked Georgia's new law requiring children younger than 16 to have their parents' permission before creating social media accounts. The judge found that the law restricts the ...

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's recent proposal to regulate online content moderation raises "raises profound constitutional and practical red flags." That's according to the Vanderbilt ...

One of former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey's headline-grabbing actions -- a rule that would have required social media companies to provide third-party content moderators -- was quietly ...

The California Legislature is advancing Senate Bill 771, which would have a chilling effect on free speech on social media. Under the bill, which sits in the state Assembly after being passed by the ...

In a landmark decision, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals finds the University of Wisconsin's "off-topic" comment rule to be unreasonable and viewpoint-discriminatory. In a significant victory for ...

On July 9, 2025, AEI hosted an expert panel that examined the US Supreme Court’s recent First Amendment decisions affecting free speech and technology policy, including the 2025 rulings in Free Speech ...

In the week since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, some Republican members of Congress have struck a different tone on social media content moderation of political speech. GOP ...