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The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University works to advance the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through litigation, research, and public education.

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NEW "Future of Press Freedom” BLOG: In a new paper, Professor Alan Chen of the University of Denver discusses the significance of the Food Lion case, which looms over press efforts to engage in undercover investigations on matters of profound public concern. Read it here: https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/the-long-shadow-of-food-lion

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"Giving users more control is important to establishing more of an equilibrium in an online world that is increasingly out of kilter," @ethanz in @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/05/opinion/facebook-court-internet-meta.html

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Join us on April 5 for “Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy,” a symposium exploring public employee speech rights, organized in collaboration with visiting research scholar Sam Lebovic. RSVP:

https://knightcolumbia.org/events/permission-to-speak-freely-managing-government-employee-speech-in-a-democracy

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The symposium will feature new scholarship on the speech rights of members of government #unions, education sector employees, and #whistleblowers. Learn more about the agenda & read panel abstracts here:

https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-institute-symposium-on-government-employee-speech-to-feature-leading-scholars-in-law-history-and-political-science

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On 2/21, @knightcolumbia litigation director @alexabdo will join Princeton CITP & P*LAW panel "Malinformation, Content Moderation and the Coming Revolution in Law & Social Media" with professor Jacob Shapiro, moderated by Deborah Pearlstein. https://spia.princeton.edu/events/plaw-citp-present-panel-malinformation-content-moderation-and-coming-revolution-law-social

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On 2/15 at 12:30pm ET, join @freedomofpress for a virtual panel with @knightcolumbia's @cmdecell, @eff's Cindy Cohn, Trevor Timm, and the ACLU Ben Wizner discussing how 's prosecution under the threatens . Register below. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gjHguVGbSv2tMdp1MKdkmw#/registration

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In a new New York Times op ed, Knight Institute senior visiting research fellow RonNell Andersen Jones traces the value and limits of libel law, and argues that for the law to be effective, we must want to share a single, objective reality. Read the piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/28/opinion/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-libel-damages.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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In a disappointing decision, a federal court yesterday dismissed our legal challenge on behalf of the Coalition for Independent Technology Research to Texas's #TikTok ban. The ruling poses a threat to #academicfreedom and impedes crucial research. Read our statement here: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/federal-court-dismisses-challenge-to-texas-tiktok-ban

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In some contexts, online anonymity can fuel #misinformation. But a lack of user identification can also foster a healthy digital public sphere. As part of our Lies & the Law series, read a new essay by Artur Pericles, Anonymity, Identity, and Lies, here: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/anonymity-identity-and-lies

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11/15 DEADLINE: Two days left to submit abstracts to "Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy." Selected papers will be included in the April 2024 symposium we’re co-organizing w/ historian Sam Lebovic. Details here: https://knightcolumbia.org/blog/call-for-proposals-permission-to-speak-freely-managing-government-employee-speech-in-a-democracy

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An Alabama Newspaper Publisher and Reporter Are Arrested, Raising Alarms. @jameeljaffer talks to the New York Times about the press freedom & First Amendment concerns at stake. Read the full article here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/02/us/journalist-charged-atamore-alabama-grand-jury.html

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Knight Institute Comments on Supreme Court Argument in Social Media Blocking Cases, says court should make clear that public officials who use social media accounts to conduct official business must comply with the First Amendment. Read our statement here: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/knight-institute-comments-on-supreme-court-argument-in-social-media-blocking-cases

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NEW ESSAY: Bridging Systems: Open Problems for Countering Destructive Divisiveness Across Ranking, Recommenders, and Governance in which @aviv & @lukethorburn discuss how "bridging" can promote social collaboration, productive deliberation, & trust. https://knightcolumbia.org/content/bridging-systems

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NEW ESSAY: In It’s the Algorithm: A Large-Scale Comparative Field Study of Misinformation Interventions, Jonathan Mayer & Ben Kaiser analyze how different governance decisions made by digital platforms affect the reach of #misinformation. Read it here: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/its-the-algorithm-a-large-scale-comparative-field-study-of-misinformation-interventions

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The Knight Institute is excited to announce our new project, “The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Times,” in partnership with @knightcolumbia Visiting Scholars RonNell Andersen Jones & Sonja West.
https://knightcolumbia.org/research/the-future-of-press-freedom-democracy-law-and-the-news-in-changing-times

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State Department Rule Requiring Visa Applicants to Register Their Social Media Handles is Ineffective, New Documents Say: Knight Institute renews calls for Biden administration to end policy. Read our statement here: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/state-department-rule-requiring-visa-applicants-to-register-their-social-media-handles-is-ineffective-new-documents-say

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NEW ESSAY: In Algorithmic Amplification for Collective Intelligence, Jason Burton posits that the promise of democratized social media has largely gone unrealized, and suggests how to design & evaluate algorithms to enhance deliberation online. Read here:
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/algorithmic-amplification-for-collective-intelligence

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Help get Sonja West, RonNell Andersen Jones, Ted Boutros & Dahlia Lithwick to SXSW! Vote for their panel, "Democracy and the Death of the Press," which tackles an urgent danger to our democracy: the loss of our shared process for finding truth. Cast your vote here: https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/140232

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Thanks INMA for including @knightcolumbia's paper "How to Prepare for the Deluge of Generative AI on Social Media," written by @randomwalker & @sayashk on your AI-centric vacation reading list. https://www.inma.org/blogs/smart-data-initiative-newsletter/post.cfm/ai-reading-list-vacation-edition

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Read the paper here: https://knightcolumbia.org/content/how-to-prepare-for-the-deluge-of-generative-ai-on-social-media

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We just filed suit on behalf of @transparenttech challenging the application of Texas’s TikTok ban to faculty in the state’s public universities. https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/coalition-for-independent-technology-research-v-abbott

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The ban prohibits all state employees—including public university faculty—from accessing TikTok on state devices and networks, and on personal devices that are also used to conduct state business.

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The ban compromises academic freedom and impedes vital research. Texas cites disinfo and privacy concerns, but the ban isn't a constitutional response. Read our complaint at the link. https://knightcolumbia.org/documents/9v5tvr971p

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