Plus: The European Union charged Meta Platforms with violating its digital-competition law. And bargain retail apps Shein and Temu are driving up air-shipping rates. Danny Lewis hosts.
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[00:00:00] Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Monday, July 1st. I'm Danny Lewis for The Wall Street Journal. The U.S. Supreme Court says the First Amendment protects social media companies' content moderation policies, but its sidestepped a ruling on the constitutionality of state
[00:00:17] laws seeking to limit the company's ability to suppress user speech. All nine justices agreed that legal challenges to laws passed in Texas and Florida must be litigated further in lower courts. The laws are part of a broader pushback against perceived anti-conservative bias by platforms
[00:00:33] like Facebook, YouTube and X. The companies deny they censor conservative viewpoints. The European Union says Meta platforms is violating the bloc's new digital competition law by failing to give users a real choice over how it uses their data.
[00:00:50] In its plan to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, Meta said it would give European Facebook and Instagram users a choice between paying a subscription fee or allowing it to use their data for targeted advertising. But the EU's executive body says that isn't a real choice.
[00:01:06] Meta says its plan complies with the rules. And items sold on bargain shopping apps, Xi'en and Temu are taking up so much space on cargo aircraft out of China that they are driving up freight rates. That's sparking fears of a capacity crunch in the peak shipping season during
[00:01:22] the holidays later this year. Shipping prices out of China's southern manufacturing hubs are up 40% from a year ago, during what's usually a slack season. For a deeper dive into what's happening in tech, check out Tuesday's Tech News Briefing podcast.