New free expression challenges from “troll armies,” “flooding,” and propaganda robots that aim to distort or drown out disfavored speech.

Response to Tim Wu's "Is the First Amendment Obsolete?"

The Knight Institute's inaugural essay series invites leading thinkers to identify and grapple with newly arising or intensifying structural threats to the system of free expression.

Response to Tim Wu's "Is the First Amendment Obsolete?"

Incendiary speech in the wake of Charlottesville, Berkeley, Boston, and beyond.

Response to Frederick Schauer's essay "The Hostile Audience Revisited"

Response to Frederick Schauer's "The Hostile Audience Revisited"

Response to Frederick Schauer's "The Hostile Audience Revisited"

Response to Frederick Schauer's "The Hostile Audience Revisited"

Introduction to Frederick Schauer's "The Hostile Audience Revisited"

Deconstructing the “editorial analogy,” and analogical reasoning more generally, in First Amendment litigation involving powerful tech companies. 

Introduction to Heather Whitney's "Search Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy"

Response to Heather Whitney's essay "Search Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy"

Response to Heather Whitney's "Search Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy"

Response to Heather Whitney's "Search Engines, Social Media, and the Editorial Analogy"

Exploring how Section 230's immunity protections may enable or elicit disciminatory behaviors online

Response to Olivier Sylvain's essay "Discriminatory Designs on User Data"

Response to Olivier Sylvain's essay "Discriminatory Designs on User Data"

Response to Olivier Sylvain's essay "Discriminatory Designs on User Data"

Introduction to Olivier Sylvain's "Discriminatory Designs on User Data"

Probing the demise of a non-regulation, anti-censorship, global internet agenda. 

Response to Jack Goldsmith's essay "The Failure of Internet Freedom"

Respone to Jack Goldsmith's "The Failure of Internet Freedom"

Introduction to Jack Goldsmith's "The Failure of Internet Freedom"

Introduction to Matthew Connelly's "State Secrecy, Archival Negligence, and the End of History as We Know It"

The collapse of the U.S. government's system for organizing, conserving, and revealing its activities. 

Response to Matthew Connelly's "State Secrecy, Archival Negligence, and the End of History as We Know It"

Response to Matthew Connelly's "State Secrecy, Archival Negligence, and the End of History as We Know It"

Response to Matthew Connelly's "State Secrecy, Archival Negligence, and the End of History as We Know It"

Response to Kate Klonick's "Facebook v. Sullivan"

Response to Kate Klonick's "Facebook v. Sullivan"

Response to Kate Klonick's "Facebook v. Sullivan"

Investigating Facebook’s use of the “public figure” and “newsworthiness” concepts in content moderation decisions. 

Introduction to Kate Klonick's "Facebook v. Sullivan"

Exploring the First Amendment's evolving role in America's democratic political process and private commercial sphere

Balancing artificial bot babble, real human exchange, and First Amendment obligations when regulating online spaces

Diving into the tension between free speech, regulation, and inequality

The Knight Institute's second essay series asks leading scholars to think beyond existing First Amendment doctrine to imagine what freedom of speech could be in our current moment and our future. 

Considering the cost of applying a probablistic statistical framework to First Amendment questions on digital platforms

Altering the internet's economic and digital infrastructure to promote free speech 

Imagining a future of untamed, wild, boisterous, and raucous free speech

Recommending "technological transparency" for effective self-government in the U.S.

Crafting policy to combat social media's harmful business practices that encourage destructive speech

Harnessing past successes in public broadcasting and community-oriented digital tools