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America Is Regulating Social Media Without Passing a Law

Meta’s $17 billion settlement marks a shift from regulating what social-media platforms publish to regulating how they are designed to capture and retain attention.

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Aug 26, 2026
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For most of the past decade, governments have debated what to regulate about social media: misinformation, pornography, political advertising, hate speech, privacy, bullying and extremist content.

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