WSJ: Facebook Inc.’s  oversight board said the company hadn’t been forthcoming about how it exempts high-profile users from its rules and said it is drafting recommendations for how to overhaul the system, following a Wall Street Journal investigation into… Continue reading

I’m really looking forward to this virtual event (free registration required): Fair Elections and Free Speech Center | Disinformation in American Elections Part II: Legal Scholars Wednesday, October 27 at 12:15pm to 1:15pm Pacific time Virtual EventCountering the Risk of… Continue reading

NYT: YouTube’s stricter policies against election misinformation was followed by sharp drops in the prevalence of false and misleading videos on Facebook and Twitter, according to new research released on Thursday, underscoring the video service’s power across social media.Researchers at… Continue reading

You can now watch video of  this event at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia Law, featuring Janell Byrd-Chichester, Atiba Ellis, Matt Perault, and me, moderated by Genevieve Lakier. It was a great conversation!

I have written this blog post for the Knight First Amendment Institute in connection with this event on lies and elections that I’ll be participating in on Wednesday. A snippet: In a book to be released in March 2022, Cheap … Continue reading

Will Oremus for WaPo: On Facebook, you decide who to befriend, which pages to follow, which groups to join. But once you’ve done that, it’s Facebook that decides which of their posts you see each time you open your feed… Continue reading

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