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City of Austin v. Reagan National Advertising: Proposing a More Nuanced Test for Identifying Content-Based Laws
The Institute’s Scott Wilkens on how a Supreme Court case involving a city sign code may influence the government’s ability to protect free speech online
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
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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
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"Information Disorder" Report Calls for Social Media Transparency
Aspen Institute commission calls on Congress to protect researchers who study social media
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Institute Presses Once More for OLC Transparency
Calls for the Biden administration to routinely make public the final legal opinions of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel
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Deep Dive: Lies and the Law
The Media Will Be All Right
A plaintiff’s lawyer’s lament on how anti-SLAPP will be an obstacle for defendants with or without Sullivan
By Carrie Goldberg
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Facebook?
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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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Edgar v. Haines
A lawsuit challenging the government's system of "prepublication review"
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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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