Category Archives: cheap speech

“I Worked at Facebook. It’s Not Ready for This Year’s Election Wave.”

January 30, 2022, 8:30 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

Katie Harbath NYT oped: The world is not ready for the coming electoral tsunami. Neither is Facebook. With so many elections on the horizon — France, Kenya, Australia, Brazil, the Philippines and the United States will hold elections this… Continue reading

“Twitter says it has quit taking action against lies about the 2020 election”

January 28, 2022, 5:18 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

Daniel Dale for CNN: Twitter quit taking action to try to limit the spread of lies about the 2020 election, the company said on Friday — a day after another social media platform, YouTube, removed a Republican congressman’s campaign… Continue reading

Watch Archived Video: “What Can (And Should) Journalists Do to Prevent Election Subversion and Another January 6?”

January 24, 2022, 11:28 amcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Deep, clarifying discussion with Bart Gellman, Jessica Huseman, and Margaret Sullivan for the UCI Law Fair Elections and Free Speech Center. Watch here:

“Why Millions Think It Is Trump Who Cannot Tell a Lie”

January 22, 2022, 11:27 amcheap speechRick Hasen

I had missed this Tom Edsall column.

“Pro-Trump influencers flocked to alternative social networks. Their follower counts stalled soon after.”

January 20, 2022, 6:39 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WaPo: Pro-Trump commentators’ hopes of developing major followings on right-leaning websites after they left Facebook and Twitter have run up against a harsh reality: Their audiences on those sites have stagnated.A Washington Post analysis of audience data for 47… Continue reading

“Facebook’s Former Elections Boss Now Questions Social Media’s Impact on Politics”

January 9, 2022, 1:18 pmcheap speechRick Hasen

WSJ: Katie Harbath joined Facebook FB -0.20% more than a decade ago as the first Republican employee in the company’s Washington, D.C., office, pushing skeptical members of Congress on the virtues of the young social network for healthy elections.Now she… Continue reading

January 20 UCI Fair Elections and Free Speech Center Virtual Event: What Can (and Should) Journalists Do to Prevent Election Subversion and Another January 6?

January 5, 2022, 1:31 pmcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

Really looking forward to moderating this (free registration required): Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | What Can (and Should) Journalists Do to Prevent Election Subversion and Another January 6? Thursday, January 20 at 12:00pm to 1:00pm Virtual Event This virtual event hosted… Continue reading

January 21 Virtual Symposium for the First Amendment Law Review: “Election Speech and the First Amendment Symposium”

January 5, 2022, 12:57 pmcheap speech, First Amendment theoryRick Hasen

Very much looking forward to participating in this: Our annual symposium is only a few weeks away!It will be held virtually on January 21, 2022, from 9:00 AM – 3:45 PM. You can register for the symposium here.… Continue reading

“Election Falsehoods Surged on Podcasts Before Capitol Riots, Researchers Find”

January 4, 2022, 2:27 pmcheap speech, fraudulent fraud squadRick Hasen

NYT: Weeks before the 2020 presidential election, the conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck outlined his prediction for how Election Day would unfold: President Donald J. Trump would be winning that night, but his lead would erode as dubious mail-in ballots… Continue reading

Must Read WaPo/ProPublica: “Facebook groups topped 10,000 daily attacks on election before Jan. 6, analysis shows”

January 4, 2022, 7:19 amcheap speech, election subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s victory between Election Day and the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, with many calling for executions or other political violence, an… Continue reading

New Brookings Institute report on how to combat untruths in the marketplace of ideas

December 3, 2021, 5:54 amcheap speechproposed legislationTabatha Abu El-Haj

Nate Persily and Joshua Tucker have issued a new Report, How to fix social media? Start with independent research. A key issue for regulatory responses, they argue, is just “how little outsiders know about what is happening inside these companies.”… Continue reading

“Inside the ‘Misinformation’ Wars; Journalists and academics are developing a new language for truth. The results are not always clearer.”

November 28, 2021, 7:53 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

New Ben Smith NYT column.

“Iranian Hackers Broke Into Newspaper Publisher Lee Enterprises Ahead of 2020 Election”

November 28, 2021, 3:46 pmcheap speech, chicaneryRick Hasen

WSJ: Iranian hackers last year infiltrated the computer systems of Lee Enterprises Inc., a major American media company that publishes dozens of daily newspapers across the U.S., as part of a broader effort to spread disinformation about the 2020 presidential… Continue reading

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