Guy’s contribution begins: Political disinformation, the subject of Rick Hasen’s latest book, Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons our Politics–and How to Cure it, is one of the most important and vexing problems currently facing American democracy.  The opening chapter… Continue reading

Mary Anne Franks has written this post for the Balkinization symposium on my cheap speech book. Her contribution begins: Who pays for cheap speech? According to Richard Hasen, the answer is all of us. His book provides a compelling account… Continue reading

Eugene Volokh’s contribution to the Balkinization symposium on my Cheap Speech book begins: Rick Hasen’s book identifies a tremendously serious problem; and it offers only modest solutions. And rightly so, I think: As the book correctly points out, more aggressive… Continue reading

You can listen to my conversation with UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement executive director Michelle Deutchman at this link.

Julie Cohen’s contribution to the Balkinization symposium on my Cheap Speech book begins: Rick Hasen’s timely and important book links disinformation-based strategies for election manipulation to the platform-based, massively intermediated information infrastructures that enable them. This essential contribution comes… Continue reading

Dan Tokaji has the first post up in a new Balkinization symposium on my Cheap Speech book. (Other contributors are:  Guy-Uriel Charles (Harvard), Julie Cohen (Georgetown), Yasmin Dawood (Toronto), Mary Anne Franks (Miami), Dan Tokaji (Wisconsin), and Eugene Volokh (UCLA).).… Continue reading

You can watch the video at this link.

Protocol: OK, maybe Elon Musk wasn’t all talk when he said he thought about launching his own social media company. Musk bought a big stake in Twitter — 73,486,938 shares, to be exact — according to a new Securities… Continue reading

You can listen here.

Bloomberg Government: Misinformation on Spanish-language media about voter fraud, the pandemic, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine threatens to harm Latino communities during this fall’s midterm elections.The Federal Communications Commission is charged with regulating broadcasters but has done little to… Continue reading

Great conversation that you can watch here: