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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
Discovery Logic: Making friends while finding gems
Curation, review, recommendation, discussion, and user identity characterize these social networks
By Mike SugarmanIssues
Free Speech & Social Media
Safeguarding the vitality and integrity of public discourse online
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Featured
A Safe Harbor for Platform Research
Knight Institute policy paper proposes legal protection for certain research and newsgathering projects focused on platforms
By Alex Abdo , Ramya Krishnan , Stephanie Krent , Evan Welber Falcón & Andrew Keane Woods
Featured
Why is The U.S. Still Probing Foreign Visitors’ Social Media Accounts?
Many people expected the Biden administration to end a Trump-era policy. Instead, the administration is expanding it.
By Anna Diakun & Carrie DeCellBlog series
Deep Dive
Rereading the First Amendment
Exposing the false assumptions that underlie contemporary First Amendment debates
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Essays and Scholarship
Privacy, Autonomy, and the Dissolution of Markets
Pathways from platform capitalism
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Advocacy Project
Knight Institute, Scholars Advise SEC That Proposed Climate Rules Do Not Raise First Amendment Concerns
Leading First Amendment scholars sign onto Knight Institute letter addressing constitutionality of new rules
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Amicus Brief
NetChoice, LLC v. Paxton
Fifth Circuit case challenging new laws regulating social media platforms
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