California Governor (and potential 2028 presidential candidate) Gavin Newsom recently vetoed a bill, SB-771, which would hold social media companies liable for violating California’s civil rights law if they “recklessly aided and abetted” the posting of hate speech. “Recklessly” replaces the California civil rights law’s current requirement that someone “knowingly” aided and abetted a violation of the law. The reason for this change is it is almost impossible to prove that a social media company knowingly a ...