All posts by Rick Hasen

Why Is This Not the Top Story in Every Newspaper, on Every News Website, and on Every Television News Program? “Trump sparks outrage after calling for army to handle enemies on election day”

The Guardian story is here. My earlier coverage: “Trump floats sending military after US citizens on election day citing ‘radical left lunatics’ and ‘the enemy from within’” The Independent: Donald Trump has chillingly suggested sending the military or … Continue reading

October 21 Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “A.I., Social Media, the Information Environment and the 2024 Elections” (Klonick, Nyhan, and Persily)

This should be a great discussion (free registration required): Monday, October 21, 12:15pm-1:15pm PT, Webinar Co-sponsored by the Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, UCLA Law Kate Klonick (St. John’s University School of Law), Brendan Nyhan (Dartmouth) and Nate Persily… Continue reading

My new one at MSNBC Opinion: “Two big questions raised by Elon Musk’s Trumpian transformation of X; Even if the worst does not come to pass, Musk is already hastening truth decay.”

I have written this opinion column for MSNBC Opinion. It begins: Conservatives were rightly outraged when social media platforms including Twitter removed links to a New York Post story run weeks before the 2020 elections detailing embarrassing information contained on Continue reading