Social media sites are transforming not only the daily lives of consumers, but also how companies interact with consumers. Here at Morrison & Foerster, across all of our practice groups, we are seeing complex, cutting-edge legal issues arising out of social media. As with the Internet boom during the mid-to-late 1990s, social media is generating new legal questions at a far faster pace than the law’s ability to provide answers to such questions. In an effort to stay on top of these emerging issues, and to keep our clients and friends informed of new developments, Morrison & Foerster publishes this blog devoted to the law and business of social media.
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Social Links: Scalpels and Sledgehammers
USA - March 23 2026 AB 1043, which requires operating system providers to collect a user’s age or date of birth at account setup and make a standardized age signal…
Email Isn’t Enough? Courts Take a Harder Look at Online TOS Modifications
USA - March 11 2026 For years, many platforms treated unilateral online terms updates as a checklist item: revise the terms, post the new version, email notice, and rely…
Social Links: The Youth Panic Playbook
USA - February 23 2026 South Carolina’s Age-Appropriate Design Code Act was signed on February 5, 2026. It took effect immediately. Four days later, NetChoice sued. The law…
Social Links: 230 at 30 - Midlife Crisis
USA - February 17 2026 We have been tracking judicial and legislative attempts to limit, reform, and otherwise rein in Section 230 for many years. A new bipartisan proposal…
Teenage Kicks - The Socially Aware Year in Review
USA - December 30 2025 If there’s one thing that became crystal clear in 2025, it’s that the internet, despite being more than thirty years old, still acts like a teenager…
Social Links: Columbus to Sacramento: The Compliance Tour
USA - December 9 2025 Ohio’s new age-verification law for online adult content, which requires online platforms to limit certain users’ access to sensitive material, took…
Social Links: Tri-State Road Trip!
USA - November 20 2025 Colorado’s attempt to rein in teen screen time has met a familiar obstacle: the First Amendment. On November 6, 2025, U.S. District Judge William J…
Social Links: The Internet’s Awkward Teen Phase
USA - November 10 2025 By the end of November, Character.AI will stop letting anyone under 18 chat freely with its bots. No more late-night conversations with virtual…
Social Links: Robots, Rewinds, and a Rocky Mountain High
USA - November 6 2025 A new bipartisan bill introduced in the U.S. Senate would make it illegal for minors to use “companion” AI chatbots, with criminal penalties for…
Social Links: The Law Crawls While Tech Runs
USA - October 27 2025 On September 30, Judge Edward Davila of the Northern District of California ruled that LinkedIn must face three lawsuits alleging that its Insight Tag…
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