Essays and Scholarship
Amplification and Its Discontents
Daphne Keller on why regulating the reach of online content is hard
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Deep Dive: Press Freedom
The Justice Department’s New Media Protections Are (Mostly) a Promise, Not Yet a Reality
What’s most important is not what the Attorney General has already done, but what the Justice Department and Congress do next
Issues
Free Speech & Social Media
Safeguarding the vitality and integrity of public discourse online
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Featured
Texas Attorney General Agrees To Not Block Critics from His Twitter Account
A victory for Texans’ First Amendment rights in Knight Institute v. Paxton
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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
Reading Room
Transparency & Democracy
Press-related prosecutions under the Espionage Act
Legal filings in Espionage Act prosecutions of individuals accused of disclosing information to the press and public
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Lawsuit
Edgar v. Haines
A lawsuit challenging the government's system of "prepublication review"
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Lawsuit
Doc Society v. Blinken
A lawsuit challenging the State Department’s social media registration requirement
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Deep Dive
An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media
A look at alternative logics for social media published in connection with “Reimagine the Internet”
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