NYT:
The two men rang the bell at the Resource Center Matamoros, a migrant aid group in the Mexican border city, and, speaking in broken Spanish, said they were looking for volunteer work.
Security footage shared with The New York… Continue reading
NYT:
Meta, the American tech giant, is being investigated by European Union regulators for the spread of disinformation on its platforms Facebook and Instagram, poor oversight of deceptive advertisements and potential failure to protect the integrity of elections.
On Tuesday,… Continue reading
N.Y. Times. Adam quotes Pam Karlan, Mellisa Murray, and Michael Dorf, as well as excerpts from the oral argument. For example:
‘In the real world, Professor Karlan said, “it’s really hard to imagine a ‘stable democratic society,’ to use… Continue reading
Miriam Seifter and Adam Sopko have posted this essay to SSRN, which will be published as part of a symposium held by the Illinois Law Review. As a participant in this symposium, I had the opportunity to see an… Continue reading
Matt Vasilogambros for Stateline:
“This month, Wisconsin joined 27 other states that have banned or restricted local governments’ use of private donations to run cash-strapped election offices, buy voting equipment or hire poll workers for Election Day.
“All of… Continue reading
N.Y. Times reports on the formation of American Sunlight Project by Nina Jankowicz and Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos:
“The inception of the group, the American Sunlight Project, reflects how divisive the issue of identifying and combating disinformation has become as the 2024… Continue reading
WaPo:
After years of pitching its suite of social media apps as the lifeblood of campaigns,Meta is breaking up with politics. The company has decreased the visibility of politics-focused posts and accounts on Facebook and Instagram as well as imposed… Continue reading
Op-ed by the leaders of the new United Kansas party. For anyone who has been following the advocacy for fusion voting over the last couple of years, the arguments in the op-ed will be familiar. For example, the new party’s… Continue reading
John Sides in Good Authority discusses a new paper that uses statistical analysis to show that “nonpartisan election administration may be the norm.” John add his own note of caution to the paper’s disclaimer against over-reading the implications of their… Continue reading
Ned already provided some commentary about yesterday’s Third Circuit decision affirming the district court’s preliminary injunction against New Jersey’s distortive county line system for primary election ballots. I want to add a few more points. (Full disclosure: Harvard Law School’s… Continue reading