Category Archives: cheap speech

“How an obscure far-right website with 3 employees dominates Facebook in 2022”

February 23, 2022, 8:51 amcheap speechRick Hasen

Popular Information: Most people have probably never heard of the website Conservative Brief. It employs just three writers and it does not produce any original reporting. Nearly all of its articles are aggregations of Tweets, YouTube videos, or other… Continue reading

“Trump’s Truth Social Launches on Apple’s App Store, With Glitches”

February 22, 2022, 7:21 amcheap speechRick Hasen

WSJ: Donald Trump’s social-networking platform, Truth Social, has gone live in the U.S., but some would-be users reported being unable to create an account or received error messages when trying to do so. Others were prompted to… Continue reading

“Bill that would make it a crime for some to lie about election results dies in WA Senate”

February 16, 2022, 7:07 amcheap speechRick Hasen

The Seattle Times reports.

“They used to just run elections. Now they fight foreign agents.”

February 16, 2022, 6:57 amcheap speech, election administrationRick Hasen

Zach Montellaro for Politico: Voting for the 2022 midterms is already underway, and the nation’s top election officials are caught fighting a two-front war: Battling disinformation stemming from the last election, while simultaneously preparing for the next one.The officials… Continue reading

My New Book Coming March 8: “Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–and How to Cure It” (Book Tour Info) CheapSpeechBook.com

February 8, 2022, 7:46 amcheap speechRick Hasen

I’m thrilled to announce that my book, Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–and How to Cure It, will be published one month from today, on March 8, by Yale University Press. They say preorders help a lot to… Continue reading

“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