According to Gasparino, it isn't just companies like Facebook and X that rely on Section 230 to protect them from libel lawsuits and mountains of legal fees; Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple investors could also be impacted by Carr's move to undermine the provision, depending on how far he goes.
New media companies have argued that they are merely conduits of information and should not face the same liability that a traditional publisher would.
However, Gasparino's sources say that Carr believes social media sites operate in a very different landscape than the early days of the internet and regularly make editorial decisions.
Meta's Facebook, for example, censored speech that questioned the effectiveness of the COVID-19 vaccines, as did Twitter, prior to Elon Musk's purchase of the platform.