Deep Dive
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Facebook?
Start with Congress enabling more research and journalism focused on social media platforms
By Ramya Krishnan & Alex AbdoOur 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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Inside Look
Wikimedia Foundation v. NSA: Targeting an Intelligence Program That Monitors Americans’ International Internet Traffic
The Institute’s Alex Abdo on why the NSA’s extensive, warrantless “Upstream” surveillance threatens privacy and free speech
Issues
Featured
What Is America’s Spy Court Hiding From the Public?
Unnecessary secrecy about government surveillance is bad for the intelligence agencies, the spy court, and our democracy
By Jameel Jaffer , Theodore Olson & David Cole
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Writing to Someone in Prison? Uncle Sam May Keep a Copy.
Knight Institute lawsuit aims to bring new surveillance program to light
Free Speech & Social Media
Safeguarding the vitality and integrity of public discourse online
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Featured
Animal Rights Advocates File First Amendment Lawsuit against Government for Blocking Critical Comments on Health Agencies’ Social Media Accounts
Knight Institute says the Department of Health and Human Services and the National Institutes of Health cannot discriminate based on viewpoint
Research
Essays and Scholarship
Licensure as Data Governance
Moving toward an industrial policy for artificial intelligence
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Symposiums and Convenings
Lies and the Law
A series of public conversations exploring what the law can and should do about the problem of lies and deception in the contemporary mass public sphere
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Essays and Scholarship
What We Owe Whistleblowers
Jameel Jaffer argues that their disclosures since 9/11 have been vital, and that we should protect them better than we do
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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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