What is online platforms?

Amazon’s Parler ban units off a free speech showdown for Big Tech

"Deplatforming" is increasingly being pursued at the level of internet infrastructure.

Social media aims to serve users across the spectrum, but users may want to stick with their own.

The social network cracks down as political debates overheat on its internal message boards.

Tech platforms want to show they're promoting reliable voting info in the face of misinformation.

An audit commissioned by Facebook assails it for letting hatred and misinformation flourish.

Company leaders have talked with rights advocates, while Zuckerberg predicts advertisers will return.

The boycotts aren't threatening Facebook financially, but they're posing a growing reputational problem.

It's a major departure from its long-standing practice of not paying publishers directly to distribute their work,

The social network will pull events that flout state rules on social distancing.

But its latest policy elaborations may not satisfy its critics.