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Quick Take : Public Officials and Social Media
What Public Officials Need to Know About Posting on Social Media After Lindke v. Freed
An update to the Institute’s Social Media for Public Officials 101
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Quick Take : Algorithmic Amplification and Society
Introducing Visualizing Virality
Illustrating and investigating virality and demotion on Twitter
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Quick Take : Public Officials and Social Media
When It Comes to Social Media Blocking, Campaign Accounts are Different
Why true campaign accounts may not be First Amendment public forums
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Why is Biden Doubling Down on Trump’s Surveillance Policy?
State Department refuses to disclose Biden administration report on social media visa vetting
By Anna Diakun -
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Why Republican Attorneys General are Wrong About Constitutionality of Proposed SEC Climate Rules
Knight Institute, legal scholars argue First Amendment should be no obstacle to rules
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Quick Take : Toward a Better Internet
Institute Litigation Director Calls for Research into the “New Physics” of Public Discourse
Arcane algorithms must be brought to light to grapple with little-understood impacts on elections, media, and society
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Quick Take : Toward a Better Internet
On Panel, Institute Attorney Warns of Legal Obstacles to Public-Interest Research on Internet Platforms
Krishnan points to Knight Institute's “safe harbor” proposal and just-released policy paper
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Quick Take : Toward a Better Internet
When Social Media Regulation Meets the First Amendment
Knight Institute director, in Decoder podcast appearance, calls on courts to reject all-or-nothing First Amendment claims by states, social media companies
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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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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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Quick Take : Press Freedom
Groups Press Attorney General to Drop Espionage Act Charges against Julian Assange
Warn that criminal case poses grave threat to press freedom
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Quick Take : Public Officials and Social Media
Platforms Not Required to Amplify Officials’ Harmful Speech, Argues Institute’s Litigation Director
But public interest dictates that even politicians’ ‘repugnant’ speech deserves a place on social media
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Quick Take : Toward a Better Internet
Institute Litigation Director Troubled Over Future of Research on Facebook
Knight Institute believes platform is trying to silence independent research into its ad-related practices
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Quick Take : Toward a Better Internet
Is the First Amendment Up to the Task in the Digital Age?
Knight Institute Director Jameel Jaffer on the future of free speech amid threats from private actors
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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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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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Biden Administration Continues to Defend Social Media Registration Requirement in Court
Indicates that it may retain Trump-era requirement
By Carrie DeCell -
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A Promising First Step Towards Curtailing Social Media Surveillance
Agency rejects proposed expansion of dangerous screening and vetting policy
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Does the First Amendment Need to be Recalibrated for the Digital Age?
Our nation’s long-standing First Amendment tolerance for varied speech — even speech that is false or hateful — may need recalibrating in the digital era, suggested Columbia University President and Knight Institute board member Lee Bollinger, speaking at a...
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Former Guantánamo Detainee Celebrates Biographical Film, The Mauritanian, As Victory Over Secrecy
The all-encompassing secrecy regime surrounding the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay concealed widespread abuses against the men who have been held there in the years following 9/11. Essential to that regime was the almost complete suppression of the voices...
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‘Dissident’ Panelists Call for Accountability Over Khashoggi Killing; Warn of Ongoing Digital Security Threat to Civil Society
Press freedom, human rights, and digital security experts at a Feb. 24 panel discussion called for greater accountability over the ruthless 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi by agents of the Saudi government.
The event, co-sponsored by the Knight Institute,...
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Appeals Court Ruling on Device Searches at Border Misguided, Says Knight Institute Attorney
A ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Alasaad v. Mayorkas was wrong to reject First and Fourth Amendment challenges to warrantless — and sometimes suspicionless — device searches at the border, contended Knight First...
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Quick Take : Public Officials and Social Media
Katie Fallow Talks to BBC News about First Amendment Issues Raised in Trump Impeachment Trial
During an interview with BBC Newshour on Feb. 8, Knight Institute Senior Staff Attorney Katie Fallow addressed First Amendment questions raised by the impeachment trial of former President Trump, which began today.
In response to a question from the BBC’s...
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Institute Attorney Urges the Biden Administration to Release Secret OLC Opinions
Stephanie Krent talks to Legal Edition about importance of government transparency to our democracy
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Quick Take : Public Officials and Social Media
A Third Federal Appeals Court Addresses Social Media Blocking
Agrees that public officials who use social media accounts to further their official duties must comply with the First Amendment
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Biden Administration Signals Openness to Reconsidering Social Media Surveillance of Visa Applicants
Orders a review of a dangerous Trump administration screening and vetting policy and ends discriminatory executive order that led to it
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A Promising Start
The new administration takes steps to reaffirm transparency and press freedom
By Larry Siems