NetChoice says judgments by social media algorithms constitutionally protected
( September 16, 2026, 03:02 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: NetChoice told a US appeals court that California's Protecting Our Kids from Social Media Addiction Act gets in the way of social media companies’ expressive personalization of speech to their users. NetChoice argued that integrating the editorial goals of designers and reflecting expressive choices human users have already made — and carrying those judgments out at scale — do not strip algorithms of constitutional protection. See attached file. ...
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