I wonder if there are any legal protections for what the Twitter trending list used to do - paid people to summarize the topic that was trending - vs the compan

I wonder if there are any legal protections for what the Twitter trending list used to do - paid people to summarize the topic that was trending - vs the company itself stating its opinion on a given subject. The google search answerbox, for example, will show you an "answer" for a given query, but it's not Google's answer to the query, it's whatever the source they selected says.