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Deep Dive: Lies and the Law
New Research Project Focuses on Lies and the Law
How does (or should) the law shape the regulation of lies, disinformation, and misinformation in the digital age
Deep Dive
Writing to Someone in Prison? Uncle Sam May Keep a Copy.
Knight Institute lawsuit aims to bring new surveillance program to light
Inside Look
Doc Society v. Blinken: Challenging the State Department’s Social Media Registration Requirement
The Institute's Carrie DeCell details how the requirement is a social media dragnet that chills the speech and associations of millions of people around the world
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North Carolina Becomes the Latest State to Digitize Mail in Prisons
Program ratchets up surveillance and raises serious First Amendment concerns
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Judicial Secrecy: How to fix the over-sealing of federal court records
The time has come for the courts to adopt a uniform procedure for sealing that protects the public’s right of access to court records
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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
By A. Adam Glenn
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Facebook?
By Ramya Krishnan & Alex Abdo -
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Facebook Banned Me for Life Because I Help People Use It Less
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Institute Litigation Director Troubled Over Future of Research on Facebook
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Is the First Amendment Up to the Task in the Digital Age?
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Ethan Zuckerman Reimagines the Internet
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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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