Essays and Scholarship
Amplification and Its Discontents
Why regulating the reach of online content is hard
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Op-ed
For the Biden Administration, Who Counts as News Media?
Newly obtained document raises concerns that some newsgatherers will be denied First Amendment protection
Issues
Free Speech & Social Media
Safeguarding the vitality and integrity of public discourse online
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Featured
Knight Institute Comments on Facebook’s Two-Year Suspension of Trump’s Account and Its New “Public Figures” Protocol
Calls, again, for an independent investigation into how Facebook’s design and engineering contributed to the events of January 6
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Former Government Officials, as well as Media Organizations, Microsoft, Former Magistrate Judges File SCOTUS Briefs Challenging Secrecy of U.S. Surveillance Court
Filers Urge Supreme Court to Hear Case on Public Right of Access to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Opinions
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Clearview AI’s First Amendment Theory Threatens Privacy—and Free Speech, Too
Drawing the line around what is protected by the First Amendment is more challenging than you might think
Research
Deep Dive
An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media
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Litigation
Lawsuit
Edgar v. Haines
A lawsuit challenging the government's system of "prepublication review"
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Lawsuit
National Association of Immigration Judges v. McHenry
A lawsuit challenging a government policy silencing immigration judges
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Transparency & Democracy
The OLC's Opinions
Documents released in our FOIA lawsuit for OLC legal opinions issued prior to 1994
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