Renee DiResta for The Atlantic: If Buttar were a Russian troll, the #PelosiMustGo triumph might have earned him a promotion: Americans were yet again feuding on social media. But Buttar is very much an American, and so were the overwhelming… Continue reading

You can now watch this October 6 event from the Fair Elections and Free Speech Center at this link.

WSJ: Facebook Inc. whistleblower Frances Haugen testified to Congress Tuesday on internal documents showing harms from the company’s products—from teenagers’ mental-health problems to poisoned political debate—adding fuel to efforts to pass tougher regulations on Big Tech.The documents gathered by Ms.… Continue reading

Nate Persily in WaPo opinion: The disclosures made by whistleblower Frances Haugen about Facebook — first to the Wall Street Journal and then to “60 Minutes” — ought to be the stuff of shareholders’ nightmares: When she left Facebook, she… Continue reading

Looking forward to participating in this event at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Law (free registration required): How should the government regulate election-related speech? Trump’s “Big Lie” raises the question of whether lies about election results should be… Continue reading

NYT: Facebook, which has been under fire from a former employee who has revealed that the social network knew of many of the harms it was causing, was bracing for new accusations over the weekend from the whistle-blower and said… Continue reading

Politico: Former President Donald Trump has asked a federal judge in Florida to force Twitter to restore his account, which the company suspended in January following the deadly storming of the U.S. Capitol.Trump’s attorneys on Friday filed a motion in… Continue reading

Join us for this October 6 event, which is the first in a three part lunch series on Disinformation in American Elections put on by UCI Law’s Fair Elections and Free Speech Center. (Free registration required): Fair Elections and… Continue reading

WaPo: One message advocated “occupying election offices.”Another warned of “coronavirus tyranny.”And a third extolled former president Donald Trump and Q, the shadowy oracle of the extremist ideology QAnon, for inspiring a new social movement prepared to take back… Continue reading