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Deep Dive: Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading the First Amendment
Exposing the false assumptions that underlie contemporary First Amendment debates
By evelyn douek & Genevieve LakierDeep Dive
Why is The U.S. Still Probing Foreign Visitors’ Social Media Accounts?
Many people expected the Biden administration to end a Trump-era policy. Instead, the administration is expanding it.
By Anna Diakun & Carrie DeCellDeep Dive: Lies and the Law
Symposium Suggests Large-Scale Societal Changes Are Needed to Lessen Impact of Harmful Lies
Institute’s “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” event featured research from a diverse range of scholars on how to address the problem of falsehoods
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A. Adam Glenn
Institute’s “Lies, Free Speech, and the Law” event featured research from a diverse range of scholars on how to address the problem of falsehoods
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
Discovery Logic: Making Friends While Finding Gems
Curation, review, recommendation, discussion, and user identity characterize these social networks
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Deep Dive: Rereading the First Amendment
Rereading Schenck v. United States
Please don't falsely yell fire in a crowded theater
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Discovery Logic: Making Friends While Finding Gems
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Quick Take
Institute Litigation Director Calls for Research into the “New Physics” of Public Discourse
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Quick Take
On Panel, Institute Attorney Warns of Legal Obstacles to Public-Interest Research on Internet Platforms
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Institute Update
Knight Institute To Co-Host Virtual Panel to Tackle Platform Transparency in 2022
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Quick Take
When Social Media Regulation Meets the First Amendment
By A. Adam Glenn
Reading Room
Transparency & Democracy
The OLC's Opinions
Opinions published by the OLC, including those released in response to our FOIA lawsuit
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Advocacy Project
Knight Institute, Scholars Advise SEC That Proposed Climate Rules Do Not Raise First Amendment Concerns
Leading First Amendment scholars sign onto Knight Institute letter addressing constitutionality of new rules
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Press Statement
Arvind Narayanan and J. Nathan Matias to Join Knight Institute as Visiting Researchers
Narayanan will explore how algorithms distort online speech, and Matias will study human-algorithm behavior and free expression
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Institute Update
Are We Climbing in or out of the Hole?
Artist Piotr Szyhalski on the making of the “Lies and the Law” series
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