Adi Robertson

A team of roughly five to 10 digital specialists from the EU plan to put Twitter, and possibly other companies, through their content-policing paces during a visit to San Francisco in late June, Thierry Breton, the bloc’s commissioner for the internal market, said in an interview.

The test is voluntary, he said, and Twitter has agreed to be subjected to it. It won’t carry any fines or other enforcement consequences. It will offer companies a dry run for how the EU’s Digital Services Act, or DSA, will be enforced.

“Today’s denial of review in the Reddit case suggests that their aversion was more than just about the Google case, specifically – and that the court is willing, at least for now, to leave any changes to Section 230 to Congress,” said Steve Vladeck, CNN Supreme Court analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.

There’s not much money in writing already, so hype around new technology as a ready replacement for existing labor is exacerbating reminders of how little stability is on offer in creative fields.

But in the process of expressing outrage at people eager to leverage the hype to personal benefit — people rushing to “get theirs” through technology trained on other people’s output — there is a thread of commentary that undermines the very richness of literary tradition we’re ostensibly fighting for in the first place.

The increasing use of mind-altering drugs in the United States for purposes that blur the line between medical treatment, self-help, and recreation, makes it particularly difficult to ascertain whether this content should be treated as promoting pharmaceutical drugs, which is generally allowed on the platform, or as endorsing drugs for non-prescribed purposes or in order to achieve a high, which is generally not allowed.