“Paramount in Settlement Talks With Trump Over ’60 Minutes’ Lawsuit” (Political Wire: Trump’s Lawsuit Settlements Look a Lot Like Bribery)

January 31, 2025, 7:30 ambribery, chicaneryRick Hasen

NYT: When Donald J. Trump sued CBS for $10 billion days before the 2024 election, accusing the company of deceptively editing a “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, many legal experts dismissed the litigation as a far-fetched attempt… Continue reading

ELB Book Corner: Sarah C. Haan: “Corporations and Labor Unions in Election Law,” in The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Oxford University Press 2024).

December 10, 2024, 7:00 amELB Book CornerRick Hasen

I am very pleased to welcome to ELB Book Corner several contributors to The Oxford Handbook of American Election Law (Eugene D. Mazo ed. 2024). The 30% discount code for ELB readers is ALAUTHC4. The third contribution is from Sarah … Continue reading

“Most Republicans say Trump didn’t even try to overturn the election”

October 30, 2023, 7:32 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Aaron Blake: Earlier this year, we learned about how the American political right’s most trusted news outlet proactively aired claims that its higher-ups understood to be baseless and false, and resisted fact-checking them. Fox News’s viewers were sold a fantasy… Continue reading

“After Fox settlement, experts warn election falsehoods will persist”

April 20, 2023, 7:49 amelection subversion riskRick Hasen

WaPo: Fox News’s $787.5 million settlement with a voting machine company sends a stark warning to others about the cost of making false statements, but that doesn’t mean election falsehoods will disappear. The constellation of conservative networks and right-wing websites… Continue reading

“What If Nothing Is Enough to Save Us from the Scourge of Cheap Speech? A Response to Balkinization Symposium Participants”

April 17, 2022, 4:11 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

[Cross-posted at Balkinization, with great thanks to Jack for hosting this symposium on my book.] For the Balkinization symposium on Richard L. Hasen, Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics-and How to Cure It (Yale University Press, 2022). Richard L. HasenNear… Continue reading

Yasmin Dawood for Balkinization “Cheap Speech” Symposium: “Social Media and Democracy: An Institutional Perspective”

April 11, 2022, 7:06 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Here is the introduction to Yasmin Dawood’s contribution to the Balkinization symposium on my Cheap Speech book: n a compelling new book, Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics – And How to Cure It, Rick Hasen provides a searing… Continue reading

“I worked on political ads at Facebook. They profit by manipulating us.”

November 11, 2019, 9:41 amUncategorizedRick Hasen

Yael Eisenstat WaPo oped: I joined Facebook in June 2018 as “head of Global Elections Integrity Ops” in the company’s business integrity organization, focused specifically on political advertising. I had spent much of my career working to strengthen and… Continue reading

Revised Version of My Paper, Deep Fakes, Bots, and Siloed Justices: American Election Law in a Post-Truth World, Now Available

November 7, 2019, 4:17 pmUncategorizedRick Hasen

I’ve posted this revised version of my Childress Lecture at this link. The main difference is that I contrast my proposal for regulating deep fakes with recent California legislation. The final version will be published in a special symposium issue… Continue reading

“Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture: American Election Law in a Post-Truth World”

October 8, 2019, 8:49 amElection MeltdownRick Hasen

[Bumping to the top as the event nears.] I’m looking forward to giving this lecture and participating in a broader election law symposium on St. Louis University on October 11: Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture: American Election Law in a… Continue reading

“How a little-known Democratic firm cashed in on the wave of midterm money”

January 8, 2019, 3:16 pmcampaign finance, campaignsRick Hasen

WaPo: The solicitations piled into voters’ email accounts — sometimes multiple times a day. And they carried alarming messages, often in blaring capital letters. “We’re on the verge of BANKRUPTCY.” “Our bank account is ALMOST EMPTY!” “Trump is INCHES away… Continue reading

ACORN Flawed Business Model Apparently Reappears in Indiana Voter Registration Effort

June 9, 2017, 2:13 pmchicanery, election administrationRick Hasen

AP: Twelve employees of a Democrat-linked group focused on mobilizing black voters in Indiana are accused of submitting fake or fraudulent voter registration applications ahead of last year’s general election in order to meet quotas, according to charging documents filed… Continue reading

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