Event

Pursuing Platform Transparency in 2022: A January 19 Virtual Panel

Panelists will discuss a three-pronged approach to platform transparency

Our Mission

We defend the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, and public education.

We promote a system of free expression that is open and inclusive, that broadens and elevates public discourse, and that fosters creativity, accountability, and effective self-government.

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Blog

The Worrying Expansion of the Social Media Surveillance-Industrial Complex

When Social Media Regulation Meets the First Amendment

Knight Institute v. Federal Bureau of Prisons: FOIA Lawsuit Seeks Records on Mail Digitization and Surveillance

Issues

Free Speech & Social Media

Safeguarding the vitality and integrity of public discourse online

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Featured

Knight Institute Asks Federal Court To Strike Down Florida’s Social Media Law

Urges court to reject arguments that would prevent government from regulating to protect free speech online

Transparency & Democracy

Ensuring access to information necessary for self-government

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Featured

Supreme Court Declines to Hear First Amendment Challenge to Secrecy of U.S. Surveillance Court

The Knight Institute, ACLU, Yale Clinic, and former Solicitor General say the Court’s denial curtails the public’s First Amendment right of access to Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court opinions

Privacy & Surveillance

Protecting the privacy vital to free thought and expression

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Featured

Writing to Someone in Prison? Uncle Sam May Keep a Copy.

Knight Institute lawsuit aims to bring new surveillance program to light

Event

Event

Government Lies

Is it possible to prevent the government’s lies or limit their harms?

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Research

Essays and Scholarship

A Standard for Universal Digital Ad Transparency

Proposal spells out criteria that trigger transparency requirement, with ad data to be collected by government agency

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Litigation

Lawsuit

Edgar v. Haines

A lawsuit challenging the government's system of "prepublication review"

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Reading Room

Transparency & Democracy

The OLC's Opinions

Documents released in our FOIA lawsuit for OLC legal opinions issued prior to 1994

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