New York’s highest court upheld a state law regulating hate speech on social media last week against a first amendment challenge from a libertarian legal scholar and the President Donald Trump-linked Rumble platform. In so doing, New York’s Court of Appeals loosened the law’s interpretation in a split 4-3 decision that found the law only requires social media ?platforms to provide a way to report hate speech, but not necessarily abide by the law’s verbatim definition of “hateful conduct” or force them to respond in any way. “The purpose of the [Hateful Conduct Law] was not to regulate networks’ moderation...