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NYT: In 2011, President Barack Obama swept into Silicon Valley and yukked it up with Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder. The occasion was a town hall with the social network’s employees that covered the burning issues of the day: taxes,… Continue reading

WaPo: House Democrats are seeking information from officials in key battleground states about their efforts to combat “lies and conspiracy theories” that could damage the integrity of federal elections as part of a broader investigation into the “weaponization of… Continue reading

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WaPo: Elon Musk has launched a $43 billion hostile takeover bid for Twitter, the social network that the eccentric billionaire behind Tesla uses as a hobby to connect with his 81 million followers — saying he believes the platform… Continue reading

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

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