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#179: Hate Speech
Recent terrorist attacks in Portland, London, and Manchester have many calling for a crackdown on Internet hate speech. They argue that allowing toxic content to...
#117: FBI Spying on Journalists
What happens when the FBI wants to spy on journalists? This summer, The Intercept obtained classified rules revealing a largely unrestrained procedure for obtaining journalists’ call information using national...
#116: Digital Free Speech Part 2 with FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman
The Federal Election Commission has long taken a light-touch approach to regulating online speech. But two recent cases involving livestreaming and filming political debate resulted...
#107: Digital Free Speech (w/ FEC Commissioner Lee Goodman)
Political speech has flourished on the Internet, thanks in large part to the First Amendment and a lack of regulation from the Federal Elections Commission...
#90: Media Ownership
The media and advertising markets are more competitive than ever, and it’s been awhile since radio, TV stations, and newspapers were the only games in...
#77: Facebook Bias? The Right Over-Reacts
Is Facebook biased against conservatives? Gizmodo ran a story today based on interviews with former contractors for Facebook, who “curated” the otherwise-machine-generated “Trending Topics” next to the...