The front page is the first and most visible page of a newspaper, magazine or other publication; the front matter. Something deemed to be of major importance or interest would be placed on the front page.
The term also may refer to a newspaper’s online edition, where the most important stories are teased on the front-page. In some newspapers, the front-page is split into sections – for example, the A front and the B front – or even broken down further as Local, Sports, Lifestyle, Family or Business.
In 2014, three anonymous Jane Does sued Backpage for facilitating sex trafficking by its adult services section, arguing that the website should be held liable for third-party posts under CDA Section 230, but the court ruled in favor of Backpage, finding that the website’s activities were “traditional publisher functions” regarding third-party content and that they were not subject to CDA Section 230 liability. The court further ruled that the law was hopelessly vague and overbroad and impermissibly chills protected speech, and the Internet Archive joined the suit. New Jersey’s law was the third to be struck down as unconstitutional. A fourth law was passed in 2017, and is currently pending in federal court.