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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
Institute Update
Knight Institute Publishes New Series of OLC Indexes
The Knight Institute has published 12 new lists of the titles of unclassified opinions written by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel between 1959 and 1972. The July 23 release is one of a series negotiated with the OLC...
Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
Social Media Mapping Project Takes Flight with Avian Avatars
Collaboration between Institute researchers, artist pairs various online community “logics” with birds of a feather
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Quick Take
Free Speech and the ‘Cancel Culture’ Conundrum
One of the most challenging free speech questions is whether and when individuals should feel free to "cancel" the speech of others, through boycotts or other exercises of private power. That was a central message from Alex Abdo, Knight Institute...
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Op-ed
Long-Withheld Office of Legal Counsel Records Reveal Agency’s Postwar Influence
Indexes of opinions from 1945 to 1958 highlight key role of office in issuing controlling interpretations of law inside executive branch
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Quick Take: Press Freedom
The Pentagon Papers 50 Years Later
Safeguarding press freedom today requires extending protections to whistleblowers and limiting the use of the Espionage Act
By Lorraine Kenny
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Deep Dive
Can We Conceive of a New Internet?
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Deep Dive
Social Media Mapping Project Takes Flight with Avian Avatars
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Deep Dive
An Illustrated Field Guide to Social Media
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Deep Dive
Forum Logic: Topical, with a side of toxicity
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Deep Dive
Gift Logic: Labors of love flourish online under fandom’s social norms
By Casey Fiesler
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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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