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New Podcast on Speech & the Border
Season three of “Views on First” looks at the frontiers of censorship and surveillance
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Call for Abstracts: Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms
Symposium to be held at Columbia University in November 2024 and April 2025
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Knight Institute Symposium on the Exchange of Ideas Across Borders to Feature Prominent Scholars and Immigration Advocates
Public event to be held on October 17-18, 2024, at Columbia University and online
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Call for Participation: "Regardless of Frontiers: The First Amendment and the Exchange of Ideas Across Borders"
Symposium to be held at Columbia University and online on October 18, 2024
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War & Speech
A new season of “Views on First” about free speech and the war in Israel and Gaza
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Knight Institute Symposium on Government Employee Speech to Feature Leading Scholars in Law, History, and Political Science
Public event to be held on April 5, 2024, at Columbia University and online
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Institute Files Amicus Brief in Murthy v. Missouri
Urges Court to clarify the First Amendment limitations on government efforts to pressure speech intermediaries into suppressing speech
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An Introduction to My Project: Permission to Speak Freely?
An interdisciplinary initiative exploring the speech rights of public employees
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Institute Update : Press Freedom
Call for Papers: New Voices in Press Freedom
The Knight Institute invites submissions from junior scholars exploring the news in changing times.
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An Introduction to Our Project: The Future of Press Freedom
A cross-disciplinary initiative to identify and protect the role of the press
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Call for Proposals: Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy
Symposium to be held at Columbia University on April 5, 2024
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Institute Update : Jawboning
Knight Institute Announces Scholars, Litigators, and Tech Policy Experts Who Will Participate in Initiative on Jawboning and the First Amendment
On Friday, October 20, the Knight Institute will host a closed convening at Columbia University to explore the question of jawboning.
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Institute Update : Algorithmic Amplification and Society
Knight Institute Symposium on “Algorithmic Amplification” to Feature Leading Scholars and Technologists
Public event to be held on April 28-29, 2023, at Columbia University and online
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Institute Update : Algorithmic Amplification and Society
Call for Participation: Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society
The Knight Institute invites submissions for its spring symposium, April 27-28, 2023, at Columbia University
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Institute Update : Lies and the Law
Knight Institute Symposium on “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” to Feature Scholars in Law, Social Science, History, and Technology
Public event to be held April 8, 2022, at Columbia University, and online
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Institute Releases New Tool to Track OLC Opinions
@OLCforthepeople will tweet every time the Office of Legal Counsel publishes an opinion in its reading room
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Institute Update : Lies and the Law
Call for Papers: Lies, Free Speech, and the Law
The Knight Institute invites submissions for its spring symposium, “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” to be held at Columbia Law School, on April 7-8, 2022. The symposium will explore how the law regulates, or should regulate, false and misleading...
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Knight Institute Publishes New Series of OLC Indexes
The release includes 12 new lists of unclassified opinions written between 1959 and 1972
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Institute Interns Take On Cutting-Edge First Amendment Issues
Students work alongside the Institute’s attorneys on ground-breaking litigation, free-speech advocacy, and research
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You Say It's Your Birthday
Reflecting on five years of defending the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age
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Institute Launches Blog
Features quick takes, in-depth analysis, and updates about our work and our perspective on emerging First Amendment challenges
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Jaffer Named to New Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder
Knight Institute Executive Director Jameel Jaffer has been named to a new Aspen Institute Commission on Information Disorder that will address rising challenges of mis- and disinformation online.
The 18-member commission, co-chaired by journalist Katie Couric, cybersecurity expert Chris Krebs,...
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Knight Institute and Reporters Committee Urge Attorney General Garland to Ensure Compliance with the Freedom of Information Act
Groups lay out steps for newly confirmed attorney general to take now
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Knight Institute, ACLU, and More than 40 Organizations Call on Biden Administration to Embrace a More Open Government
Letter proposes steps the administration could take immediately
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Leading Legal Scholars and Technologists to Contribute to “Data and Democracy” Symposium
Symposium will take place online, October 15-16, 2020
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Announcing the Knight Institute’s Occasional Papers Series
Institute launches a new series with an essay by Jack Balkin
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The Tech Giants, Monopoly Power, and Public Discourse: Visualizing the Conversation
Illustrator chronicles big tech symposium
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New Essay Series: The Tech Giants, Monopoly Power, and Public Discourse
Addressing the tech giants' control over a wide range of economic and expressive activity
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Knight Institute to Convene Data and Democracy Symposium
Symposium to consider ways to ensure a robust democracy in the age of big data
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Knight Institute to Convene Symposium on Tech Giants, Monopoly Power, and Public Discourse
Symposium to explore whether anti-monopoly tools could be used to address platforms' power over public discourse