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iiclr-26256	Doyle, Brittany	Self-Regulation Is No Regulation--The Case for Government Oversight of Social Media Platforms	2022	34	.pdf	application/pdf	14303	786	54	Section 230 provides broad immunity from liability over user-posted content for internet companies like Facebook and other SMPs, even though this law was enacted long before SMPs existed.167 Section 230 means internet companies are not considered publishers, and they are not liable for the content that users post on their platforms.168 Compare this to newspapers, which can be held liable for all content it publishes, including advertisements.169 This law is used successfully as a defense by social media companies in lawsuits.170 Section 230 is given credit for the large expansion of the technology era and was enacted to give small internet start-up companies room to grow free from liability by its users. Id. 2022] SELF-REGULATION IS NO REGULATION 125 political news primarily from social media, a larger percentage than radio (8 percent), network TV (13 percent), local TV (16 percent), and cable TV (16 percent).245 In 2018, a report showed a little more than two-thirds of Americans say they “at least occasionally” access news on SMPs, and a majority of those SMP users say the news they see is “largely inaccurate.	cache/iiclr-26256.pdf	txt/iiclr-26256.txt