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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Supreme Court Sidesteps Social-Media Ruling

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: The European Union charged Meta Platforms with violating its digital-competition law. And bargain retail apps Shein and Temu are driving up air-shipping rates. Danny Lewis hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Here's your TMB Tech Minute for Monday, July 1st.

0:05.0

I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

0:08.0

The US Supreme Court says the First Amendment protects social media companies content moderation policies, but it sidestepped a ruling on the constitutionality of state laws seeking to limit the company's ability to suppress user speech.

0:21.0

All nine justices agreed that legal challenges to laws passed in Texas and Florida must be litigated

0:27.0

further in lower courts.

0:29.2

The laws are part of a broader pushback against perceived anti-conservative bias by platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and X.

0:36.8

The companies deny they censor conservative viewpoints.

0:40.6

The European Union says Meta Platforms is violating the Block's new digital competition law by failing to give users a real choice over how it uses their data.

0:50.0

In its plan to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, Meta said it would give European

0:54.7

Facebook and Instagram users a choice between paying a subscription fee or allowing it to use

0:59.8

their data for targeted advertising. But the EU's executive body says that isn't a real choice.

1:06.5

Meta says its plan complies with the rules. And items sold on bargain shopping apps

1:12.1

Sheehan and Temu are taking up so much space on cargo aircraft out of China that they are driving up freight rates.

1:19.0

That's sparking fears of a capacity crunch in the peak shipping season during the holidays later this year.

1:25.2

Shipping prices out of China's southern manufacturing hubs are up 40% from a year ago during

1:30.1

what's usually a slack season. For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech,

1:35.0

check out Tuesday's Tech News Briefing Podcast.

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