Gov. Greg Abbott signs social media ‘censorship’ bill, setting up battle with Silicon Valley

The regulation applies to social media corporations with greater than 50 million month-to-month lively customers in the US, together with Fb, Twitter and Google’s YouTube, and requires them to create stories on any unlawful or probably policy-violating content material, in addition to construct a grievance system, the place folks might problem corporations’ selections to take away content material or flag criminal activity. People and the state legal professional basic might file lawsuits in the event that they imagine that the tech corporations wrongfully banned them from their platforms.