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Category Archives: cheap speech
“Will hackers, trolls and AI deepfakes upset the 2024 election?”
“Meta Faces E.U. Investigation Over Election Disinformation”
NYT:
Meta, the American tech giant, is being investigated by European Union regulators for the spread of disinformation on its platforms Facebook and Instagram, poor oversight of deceptive advertisements and potential failure to protect the integrity of elections.
On Tuesday,… Continue reading
“As Meta flees politics, campaigns rely on new tricks to reach voters”
WaPo:
After years of pitching its suite of social media apps as the lifeblood of campaigns,Meta is breaking up with politics. The company has decreased the visibility of politics-focused posts and accounts on Facebook and Instagram as well as imposed… Continue reading
“Content creators ask Meta to reverse politics limits on Instagram, Threads”
Taylor Lorenz for WaPo:
Hundreds of political and news content creators, along with activists, meme account administrators and journalists, have signed an open letter to Meta asking the company to reverse its decision to limit the reach of accounts posting… Continue reading
My New One at Slate: “2016 Election Fraudster ‘Ricky Vaughn’ Might Finally Be About to Face the Music”
I have written this piece for Slate. it begins:
On Friday, a federal appeals court in New York will consider a case with key implications for the 2024 election. At issue is whether it violates federal law to trick… Continue reading
“China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms”
NYT:
Covert Chinese accounts are masquerading online as American supporters of former President Donald J. Trump, promoting conspiracy theories, stoking domestic divisions and attacking President Biden ahead of the election in November, according to researchers and government officials.
The accounts… Continue reading
“From Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing Liars to Pay or Apologize”
NYT:
Michael J. Gottlieb can never remember the exact amount — it’s $148,169,000— that a jury ordered Rudolph W. Giuliani to pay the Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss. But Ms. Freeman’s words after the December 2023 victory… Continue reading
“It Depends Who’s Doing the Jawboning”
I’ve got a new post up at Lawfare about a crucial piece missing from the discussion around Murthy v. Missouri, the SCOTUS case about jawboning the social media platforms. Plenty of the Justices had welcome real-world executive experience that came… Continue reading
March 28 Livestream: “AI’s Impact on the 2024 Global Elections”
Quite the lineup at Columbia.
“Fretting About Election-Year Deep Fakes, States Roll Out New Rules for A.I. Content”
NYT:
Wisconsin for the first time this year will begin requiring political advertisers to disclose the use of content generated by artificial intelligence or face financial penalties. But the battleground state, one that played a critical role in the last… Continue reading
Kari Lake, Pulling a Giuliani, Concedes Liability for Defaming Election Official Stephen Richer; Wants to Go Straight to Damages (That Didn’t Work Well for Giuliani)
Stunning yet routine:
Kari Lake is asking the court to quickly issue a judgment and to decide how much she will pay Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer in the defamation case he brought against her, according to a filing … Continue reading
“Deepfake Kari Lake video shows coming chaos of AI in elections”
WaPo:
Hank Stephenson has a finely tuned B.S. detector. The longtime journalist has made a living sussing out lies and political spin.
But even he was fooled at first when he watched the video of one of his home state’s… Continue reading
“How a Former Democratic Operative Is Testing the Limits of What a Newsroom Can Be”
Maggie Severns for Notus:
Thousands of North Carolinians — mostly women — were targeted with Facebook and Instagram ads shortly before the last midterm elections that shared a dire message: A little-watched race could determine whether abortion would remain legal… Continue reading