WASHINGTON—The Federal Communications Commission will begin a rule-making procedure that could scale back legal protections for social-media platforms, in a step toward the Trump administration’s goal of combating what it views as anticonservative bias in the platforms’ content-moderation practices. The review had been sought by President Trump and other conservatives, who say social-media platforms have used Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to censor conservative viewpoints.

Source: Wall Street Journal October 15, 2020 20:48 UTC