Global Digital Foundation: Jacob Mchangama and the History of Hate-Speech Laws
Paul MacDonnell talks with Jacob Mchangama about the post-WWII history of attempts to constrain hateful…
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Swissinfo: How can social media be made social again?
Social media platforms have become indispensable channels for public debate, and yet they are now…
Doha Debates – Course Correction: The Disrupters – Using free speech for good and evil
Social media has made it easier than ever to share ideas around the world and…
BBC: Has Covid rolled back democratic rights?
Once democratic freedoms are snatched away, can they be clawed back? David Kaye – Professor of law,…
The Economist: Censorious governments are abusing “fake news” laws
… Even as free-speech campaigners in rich democracies offer support to those fighting censorship in…
Uncommon Decency: A Transatlantic Fracture Over Speech? with Frances G. Burwell & Jacob Mchangama
Executive Director Jacob Mchangama guests the Uncommon Decency podcast to discuss regulating social media. In…
Lawfare: Rushing to Judgment – Examining Government Mandated Content Moderation
On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant logged on to 8chan and posted a message on…
Arc Digital: The Purge of Trumpism
Within days the most powerful man in the world had been permanently cut off from…
Algorithm Watch: In a quest to optimize welfare management, Denmark built a surveillance behemoth
Udbetaling Danmark was created in 2012 to streamline the payment of welfare benefits. Its fraud…
Foreign Policy: How to Judge Facebook’s New Judges
“We Must Save Democracy From Conspiracies,” insisted British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in a Time…