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KATE KLONICK
klonick@gmail.com
EDUCATION______________________________________________________________________________
Yale Law School, Ph.D. in Law, 2018, New Haven, CT
Georgetown University Law Center, J.D., 2012, Washington, D.C.
The Georgetown Law Journal, Senior Online & Development Editor
Ipsa Loquitur: The Georgetown Law Journal Online, Managing and Founding Editor
New York University School of Law, Visiting student, Sept.–Dec. 2011, New York, N.Y.
Brown University, A.B., Honors in Modern American History, 2006, Providence, R.I.
Demonstrated second major and selected graduate coursework in Cognitive Neuroscience
LEGAL WORK EXPERIENCE________________________________________________________________
St. John’s Law School, Assistant Professor, July 2018–present, Queens, N.Y.
Yale Law School, Information Society Project, Resident Fellow, Sept. 2014–2018, New Haven, CT
Yale Law School, Cultural Cognition Project, Director of CCP Lab, Sept. 2015–2017, New Haven, CT
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, Clerk to Hon. Richard Wesley, Aug. 2013–Aug. 2014, Geneseo, N.Y.
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of N.Y., Clerk to Hon. Eric Vitaliano, July 2012–Aug. 2013, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Venable, LLC, Summer Associate, Summer 2011, Washington, D.C.
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AFFILIATIONS__________________________________________________
Senior Visiting Fellow, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS LAW DEPARTMENT, to begin Jan. 1, 2022
Non-Resident Fellow, BROOKINGS INSTITUTE, to begin Sept. 1, 2021
Board Member, ELECTRONIC PRIVACY INFORMATION CENTER (EPIC), 2020–present
Board Member, CENTER FOR THE SCIENCE OF MORAL UNDERSTANDING, 2019–present
Fellow, DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP INSTITUTE, 2019–present
Affiliate Fellow, YALE LAW SCHOOL INFORMATION SOCIETY PROJECT, 2018–present
Executive Committee Member, AALS INTERNET & COMPUTER LAW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, 2018–present
Principal Investigator & Individual Grant Recipient, KNIGHT FOUNDATION, 2019–2021
Principal Investigator & Individual Grant Recipient, CHARLES KOCH INSTITUTE, 2019–2021
Principal Investigator & Individual Grant Recipient, MACARTHUR FOUNDATION, 2019–2021
Named Recipient on Institution Grant on “Digital Public Sphere” at Yale Law School Information Society Project,
KNIGHT FOUNDATION, 2019–2020
Named Recipient on Project Grant on “Social Media and Democracy” at Yale University with Prof. Molly Crockett,
SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL, 2019–2020KATE KLONICK
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS _________________________________________________________________
The Marketplace of Governance, __ J. FREE SPEECH L. ___ (2021)
The last decade has seen the United States cast around for regulatory approaches to rein in the ever-growing
power of technology companies. But not all technologies are created equal; nor are the regulatory models
that might control them. This Article narrows the overbroad and thinly defined push to “regulate Big Tech”
to a specific kind of tech: online speech platforms, like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. It
examines consumer and speech concerns of such platforms through two distinct and inapposite models: a
revived economic structuralist approach in antitrust regulation and free expression in a rights-based
framework. It argues that while a newly revived antitrust doctrine might be the right solution for consumer
interest in other types of technology platforms, such an approach is not well suited to the concerns of users
of online speech platforms and may in fact worsen current harms in those spaces. But competition-based
approaches cannot be entirely abandoned: global dependence on private firms to establish platforms where
one can exercise these public speech rights complicates a simple rights-protective solution.
In an attempt to escape the half-market-based and half-rights-based enigma, this Article calls for a new
hybrid model: creating a market for governance in online speech platforms. Regulation that requires
platforms to disclose their rules, process, and outcomes will avoid direct regulation on speech, provide users
process around their online speech rights, and encourage competition between firms for best and
differentiated governance models.
The Facebook Oversight Board: Creating an Independent Institution to Adjudicate Online Free Expression, 129 YALE
L. J. 2418 (2020)
https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=3639234
For a decade and a half, Facebook has dominated the landscape of digital social networks, becoming one of
the most powerful arbiters of online speech. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, over two billion
users leverage the platform to post, share, discuss, react to, and access content from all over the globe.
Through a system of semipublic rules called “Community Standards,” Facebook has created a body of
“laws” and a system of governance that dictate what users may say on the platform. In recent years, as this
intricately built system to dispatch the company’s immense private power over the public right of speech has
become more visible, Facebook has experienced intense pressure to become more accountable, transparent,
and democratic, not only in how it creates its fundamental policies for speech but also in how it enforces
them. In November 2018, after years of entreaty from the press, advocacy groups, and users, CEO and
founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that Facebook would construct an independent oversight body to be
researched, created, and launched within the year. The express purpose of this body was to serve as an
appellate review system for user content and to make content-moderation policy recommendations to
Facebook. This Feature empirically documents the creation of this institution, now called the Facebook
Oversight Board. The Board is a historic endeavor both in scope and scale. The Feature traces the events and
influences that led to Facebook’s decision to create the Oversight Board. It details the year-long process of
creating the Board, relying on hundreds of hours of interviews and embedded research with the Governance
Team charged with researching, planning, and building this new institution. The creation of the Oversight
Board and its aims are a novel articulation of internet governance. This Feature illuminates the future
implications of the new institution for global freedom of expression. Using the lens of adjudication, it
analyzes what the Board is, what the Board means to users, and what the Board means for industry and
governments. Ultimately, the Feature concludes that the Facebook Oversight Board has great potential to set
new precedent for user participation in private platforms’ governance and a user right to procedure in
content moderation.
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Facebook v. Sullivan, in THE PERILOUS PUBLIC SQUARE: STRUCTURAL THREATS TO FREE EXPRESSION TODAY, ed.
David Pozen (Columbia UP 2020)
This Essay originally published as part of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University’s
“Emerging Threats” series (October 1, 2018) was republished together with other essays in that series. The
book, as editor David Pozen writes discusses how “Americans of all political persuasions fear that ‘free
speech’ is under attack. This may seem strange at a time when legal protections for free expression remain
strong and overt government censorship minimal. Yet a range of political, economic, social, and
technological developments have raised profound challenges for how we manage speech. New threats to
political discourse are mounting—from the rise of authoritarian populism and national security secrecy to
the decline of print journalism and public trust in experts to the ‘fake news,’ trolling, and increasingly subtle
modes of surveillance made possible by digital technologies.
The Perilous Public Square brings together leading thinkers to identify and investigate today’s multifaceted
threats to free expression. They go beyond the campus and the courthouse to pinpoint key structural
changes in the means of mass communication and forms of global capitalism. Beginning with Tim Wu’s
inquiry into whether the First Amendment is obsolete, Matthew Connelly, Jack Goldsmith, Kate Klonick,
Frederick Schauer, Olivier Sylvain, and Heather Whitney explore ways to address these dangers and
preserve the essential features of a healthy democracy. Their conversations with other leading thinkers,
including Danielle Keats Citron, Jelani Cobb, Frank Pasquale, Geoffrey R. Stone, Rebecca Tushnet, and
Kirsten Weld, cross the disciplinary boundaries of First Amendment law, internet law, media policy,
journalism, legal history, and legal theory, offering fresh perspectives on fortifying the speech system and
reinvigorating the public square.”
Facebook v. Sullivan: Building Constitutional Law for Online Speech, 93 S. CAL. L. REV. 37 (2020)
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3332530
In the United States, there are now two systems to adjudicate disputes about harmful speech. The first is
older and more established: the legal system in which judges apply constitutional law to address tort claims
alleging injuries caused by speech. The second is newer and less familiar: the content-moderation system in
which platforms like Facebook implement rules that govern online speech. These platforms aren’t bound by
the First Amendment, but they rely on tools used by courts to resolve tensions between regulating harmful
speech and preserving free expression—particularly the entangled concepts of “public figures” and
“newsworthiness.” This Article offers an empirical analysis of how judges and content moderators have
used these two concepts to shape the boundaries of free speech. By articulating the similarities and
differences between these systems, this Article offers lessons for both courts and platforms as they confront
new challenges posed by online speech. This comparative analysis also reveals the structural role that
platforms play in today’s speech ecosystem, in which they act as legislature, executive, judiciary, and press—
but without any separation of powers to establish checks and balances.
The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech, 131 HARV. L. REV. 1598 (2018)
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2937985
Private online platforms are the New Governors of online speech. They have an increasingly essential role in
free speech and participation in democratic culture. But while it might appear that any Internet user can
publish freely and instantly online, many platforms actively curate the content posted by their users. How
and why these platforms operate to moderate speech is largely opaque. This Article provides the first
analysis of what these platforms are actually doing to moderate online speech both in terms of their
substantive policy and through the procedural systems they developed. Drawing from original interviews,
archived materials, and leaked documents, this Article not only describes how three major online
platforms—Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube—moderate content, it situates their moderation systems into a
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broader discussion of online governance and the evolution of free expression values in the private sphere. It
reveals that private content moderation systems create substantive policies that balance free speech norms,
corporate responsibility, and the economic necessity to create an environment reflective of the expectations
of its users. In order to accomplish this, platforms have procedurally developed a detailed system similar to
common law regulation with recursively revised rules contingent on new and changing facts, trained human
decision-making akin to judges, and reliance on a system of external influence. This Article argues that to
best understand online speech, we must abandon traditional doctrinal and regulatory analogies, and
understand these private content platforms as systems of governance operating outside the boundaries of
the First Amendment. These platforms shape and allow participation in our new digital and democratic
culture. They are the New Governors of online speech.
Re-Shaming the Debate: Social Norms, Shame, and Regulation in an Internet Age, 75 MD. L. REV. 1029 (2016)
https://ssrn.com/abstract=2638693
Advances in technology communication have dramatically changed the ways in which social norm
enforcement is used to constrain behavior. This is powerfully demonstrated through current events around
online shaming and cyber-harassment. Low cost, anonymous, instant, and ubiquitous access to the Internet
have removed most—if not all—the natural checks on shaming. This Article ties together the current
conversation around online shaming and cyber-bullying and cyber-harassment with the larger legal
discussion around social norms and shaming sanctions. It argues that the introduction of the Internet has
altered the social conditions in which people speak and, thus, changed the way we perceive and enforce
social norms. Accordingly, online shaming is (1) a punishment with indeterminate social meaning; (2) not a
calibrated or measured form of punishment; and (3) of little or questionable accuracy in who and what it
punishes. In thus reframing the problem, this Article looks at the viability of the legal, normative, private,
and State solutions to controlling online shaming. It argues that State regulation will be an inefficient and
ineffective solution and proposes using private remedies to inform the debate around State intervention.
Comparing Apples to Applejacks: Cognitive Science Concepts of Similarity Judgment and Derivative Works, 60
J. COPYRIGHT SOC’Y U.S.A. 365 (Spring 2013)
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2442392
Perhaps more than any other area of law, copyright law is grounded in the subjectivity of human perception.
This is especially true in regard to derivative works, where courts and legislatures have long struggled to
create laws and tests that outline qualities and categories for determining similarity between original and
derivative material. The issue of how to create reliable strictures to judge something as subjective as
similarity is not, however, unique to the law. Cognitive scientists have asked the same question for decades,
creating various models to explain how people prioritize, categorize, and judge features in determining
similarity. This Article examines the doctrine surrounding the derivative works right and transformation
factor under the fair use test; provides a brief history and summary of approaches of cognitive science and
psychology surrounding human perception of generalization, similarity, and categorization; and analyzes
the derivative works and fair use doctrine with the insight of cognitive psychology. This Article’s analysis
suggests possible improvements to judicial frameworks, and explores future applications for cognitive
psychology in copyright laws and ways in which attorneys might use such biases to their advantage.
Note, Not in My Atlantic Yards: Examining Netroots’ Role in Eminent Domain Reform, 100 GEO. L.J. 263 (2011)
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2442347
Following the Supreme Court’s decision in Kelo v. City of New London, which expanded the State’s power to
condemn private property and transfer it to other private owners under the Fifth Amendment, there have
been significant calls to curb the power of eminent domain through statutory reform. Those in favor of such
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reform argue such legislation is needed to protect private property rights against rising State power, while
those opposed argue that empowering the public in land use decisions slows development and, ultimately,
economic progress. This Note argues that incorporating public approval need not come at the cost of
expediency. Rather, using the Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn as a case study, this Note demonstrates that
advances in technology provide the opportunity for increased community connectivity, involvement and
transparency, which can be used to streamline the public-hearing process. Using the lessons of netroots, the
insights of e-Rulemaking, and the classic public hearing model of land use, this Note outlines a new solution
to the classic tension between developers and landowners. Thus, a public empowered by statutory reform
can couple with Internet political activism to create a new and more efficient approach to traditionally
ineffective public forums at little-to-no cost to continued land and real estate development.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS______________________________________________________________________
Facebook’s Oversight Board was supposed to let Facebook off the hook. It didn’t, WASH. POST OP-ED (May 6, 2021)
with Jack Balkin
Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court, THE NEW YORKER (Feb. 12, 2021)
What I Learned in Twitter Purgatory, THE ATLANTIC (Sep. 8, 2020)
What Artificial Intelligence Is Not, LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS (Feb. 22, 2020)
Does Facebook’s Oversight Board Finally Solve the Problem of Online Speech?, CIGI (Oct. 28, 2019)
Should Facebook Censor If a Politician Is Called a Traitor?, NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED (Jun. 26, 2019) with Jen Daskal
Facebook’s Federalist Papers, SLATE (Jun. 26, 2019) with Evelyn Douek
Facebook Releases an Update on Its Oversight Board, LAWFARE (Jun. 26, 2019) with Evelyn Douek
For Once We Have Good News About Content Moderators, SLATE (May 13, 2019)
A Manifesto: Using Empirical Research in Journalism and Scholarship to Understand Tech, LAWFARE (May 9, 2019)
Inside the Team at Facebook That Dealt with the Christchurch Shooting, THE NEW YORKER (Apr. 25, 2019)
A ‘Creepy’ Assignment: Pay Attention to What Strangers Reveal in Public, NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED (May 8, 2019)
How to Make Facebook’s ‘Supreme Court’ Work , NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED (Nov. 17, 2018)
Trump complains about bias on Twitter and Google, but what can he do about it?, VOX (Aug. 28, 2018)
Supreme Court Takes on Police Use of Cellphone Records, NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED (Jun. 22, 2018) with Alex Abdo
Facebook Released its Content Moderation Rules, Now What? NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED (Apr. 26, 2018)
The Civics of Facebook, SLATE (Apr. 9, 2018)
Why the History of Content Moderation Matters, TECHDIRT (Jan. 30, 2018)
Democratic Culture is More than Mere Voting, CATO UNBOUND (Dec. 14, 2017)
The Terrifying Power of Internet Censors, NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED (Sep. 13, 2017)
Facebook, Free Expression and the Power of a Leak, NEW YORK TIMES OP-ED (Jun. 27, 2017) with Margot Kaminski
The Most Important Lesson From the Leaked Facebook Content Moderation Documents, SLATE (Jun. 29, 2017)
Here's What It Would Take for Twitter to Get Serious About Its Harassment Problem, Vox (Oct. 25, 2016)
Facebook Under Pressure, SLATE (Sep. 12, 2016)
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You’ll Never Guess This One Crazy Thing Governs Online Speech, SLATE (Aug. 24, 2016)
A New Taxonomy for Online Harms, B. U. L. REV. ANNEX (Nov. 3, 2015)
The Science of Blame: Why We Respond to Tragedies All Wrong, VOX (Apr. 14, 2015)
PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES _________________________________________________________
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES
Regulating Big Tech, R STREET, Mar. 2020, Keynote Speaker
The Future of the Future: The Ethics and Implications of AI, UC IRVINE, Feb. 2020, Keynote Panelist
The Facebook Oversight Board, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, Jan. 2020, Keynote Speaker
Harmful Online Activity and Private Law Conference, UNIV. OF HAIFA, Dec. 2019, Keynote Speaker
Fordham International Law Journal Symposium, FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL, Oct. 2019, Keynote Speaker
CONFERENCE ORGANIZER
Everything You Need to Know About Section 230 in 5 Hours: A Five-Day Lunch Series, YALE INFORMATION
SOCIETY PROJECT, Jun. 2020
COMO III: Content Moderation and the Future of Online Speech, ST. JOHN'S LAW SCHOOL, Oct. 2018
We Robot 2017, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Mar. 2017
GOVERNMENT TESTIMONY
U.K. House of Lords Communications & Digital Select Committee, Mar. 2021, Official Witness Testimony
Section 230 Workshop, DEPT. OF JUSTICE OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, Feb. 2020, Speaker
Hearing on Algorithms and Content Moderation in Online Speech Platforms, UNITED STATES HOUSE
SUBCOMMITTEE ON COMMUNICATIONS AND TECHNOLOGY, Nov. 2017, Official Witness Testimony
PAPER PRESENTATION, SPEAKER, OR PANELIST
Understanding Section 230, SEVENTH CIRCUIT BAR ADMINISTRATION, Jun. 2021, Panelist
Academic Freedom in an Online World, UC BERKELEY LAW, Jun. 2021, Panelist
Social Media Debate, CROW HOLDINGS IN DALLAS, Jun. 2021, Moderator
Rule of Law Panel, NEW YORK STATE BAR ASSOCIATION, Jun. 2021, Panelist
Rupe Debate: Taming Titans, UC SANTA BARBARA LAW SCHOOL, May 2021, Panelist
Harmful Online Activity and Private Law, UNIV. OF TEL AVIV, May 2021, Panelist
What is to be Done About Fake News in Politics?, LSE LAW DEPT. May 2021, Panelist
Lex Informatica Symposium, BERKELEY LAW, Apr. 2021, Moderator
Information Society Class, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2021, Guest Lecturer at invitation of Jack Balkin
Regulating Social Media -- How? When? Who Will Write the Rules?, GEORGETOWN LAW, Apr. 2021, Panelist
Clinical Work in Social Media, NORTHWESTERN LAW, Mar. 2021, Guest Lecturer at invitation of Jonathan Manes
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Frenemies of the Press, YALE ABRAMS INSTITUTE FOR FREE EXPRESSION, Mar. 2021, Moderator
Social Media Governance & Content Moderation, CARDOZO LAW SCHOOL, Mar. 2021, Panelist
Antitrust Panel: Trump v. Twitter, NYU LAW SCHOOL, Mar. 2021, Panelist
Information Warfare, COLUMBIA JOURNALISM SCHOOL, Mar. 2021, Guest Lecturer at invitation of Emily Bell
Tech, Media and Democracy, CORNELL LAW SCHOOL and CORNELL TECH, Mar. 2021, Panelist
TechLaw: Hindsight is 2020, ARIZONA LAW SCHOOL, Feb. 2021, Panelist
The Fate of Donald Trump on Facebook, R STREET, Feb. 2021, Panelist
Content Moderation Transparency Discussion, STANFORD LAW SCHOOL: CYBER CENTER, Nov. 2020, Panelist
Social Media and Democracy, LOYOLA UNIV. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2020, Panelist
Post-Election: How Are Our Information Ecosystems Holding Up?, ASPEN INSTITUTE, Nov. 2020, Panelist
Paper Presentation: The Oversight Board, UNIV. OF WASHINGTON LAW SCHOOL, Nov. 2020, Speaker
Faculty Workshop: The Oversight Board, PITT. LAW SCHOOL, Oct. 2020, Speaker
The History and Legacy of Politics at the Department of Justice, UNIV. OF N. CAROLINA LAW SCHOOL, Oct.
2020, Panelist
Social Media Platforms and the Fight Against Election Disinformation, NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER,
Oct. 2020, Panelist
The Oxford Process on International Law Protections in Cyberspace: Protecting Elections from Foreign
Cyber-Interference, UNIV. OF OXFORD, Oct. 2020, Panelist
Addressing the Challenges of Content Moderation, UCLA, Oct. 2020, Panelist
Everything You Need to Know About Section 230 in 5 Hours: A Five-Day Lunch Series, YALE INFORMATION
SOCIETY PROJECT, Jun. 2020, Moderator and Organizer
Emerging Oversight Models and the Future of Platform Governance, BIG CYBER IDEAS FESTIVAL, Jun. 2020,
Speaker
Section 230 Livestream Recording, ALL TECH IS HUMAN, Jun. 2020, Speaker
Free Speech Project: What’s a Gatekeeper to Do?, NEW AMERICA/SLATE, Jun. 2020, Speaker
The FCC’s Role in Reforming Section 230, INFORMATION TECH. & INNOVATION FOUNDATION, Jun. 2020, Speaker
Showdown: Free Speech & the Internet, ASPEN INSTITUTE, Jun. 2020, Speaker
The Law of Facebook: Borders, Regulation & Global Social Media, CITY UNIV. OF LONDON, May 2020, Speaker
Presentation of Research: Facebook’s Oversight Board, MACARTHUR FOUNDATION, May 2020, Speaker
The Future of Online Speech, READY LAYER ONE, May 2020, Speaker
Fireside Chat with Mike Simons, ST. JOHN’S LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2020, Speaker
Law Matters with Prof. Kate Klonick: Alumni Event, ST. JOHN’S LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2020, Speaker
Internet and Information Law, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2020, Guest Lecturer at invitation of Jack Balkin
Law and the Internet, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Mar. 2020, Guest Lecturer at invitation of Jonathan Zittrain
Return of the Gatekeepers: Section 230 and the Future of Online Speech, CATO INSTITUTE, Mar. 2020, Speaker
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Digital Life Seminar: The Facebook Oversight Board, CORNELL TECH, Feb. 2020, Speaker
Internet Platforms and the Future, FEDERAL BAR COUNCIL ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Feb. 2020, Speaker
Tech Law & Policy Colloquium, GEORGETOWN LAW CENTER, Feb. 2020, Guest Lecturer at invitation of Julie Cohen
Internet and Democracy Class, STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, Jan. 2020, Guest Lecturer at invitation of Nate Persily
Ohio State Technology Law Journal Symposium, OHIO STATE LAW SCHOOL, Jan. 2020, Paper Presenter
Harmful Activity in E2EE, NEWMARK SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM AT COLUMBIA, Jan. 2020, Presenter
Oversight Board Paper Workshop, HANS-BREDOW INSTITUT, Jan. 2020, Speaker
Online Speech and Content Moderation, AALS ANNUAL CONFERENCE, Jan. 2020, Panelist
Oversight Board Paper Workshop, DATA & SOCIETY, Dec. 2019, Presenter
Technology Colloquium, NEW YORK UNIV. LAW SCHOOL, Nov. 2019, Speaker
Program on IP & Technology Law Lecture, NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL, Nov. 2019, Speaker
First Amendment and Technology, DREXEL UNIV. LAW SCHOOL, Nov. 2019, Speaker
Tech and Regulations Roundtable, GEORGE MASON UNIV. LAW SCHOOL, Nov. 2019, Speaker
What Free Speech Costs Us, TEXAS TRIBUNE CONFERENCE, Sep. 2019, Speaker
End-to-End Encryption Workshop, STANFORD INTERNET OBSERVATORY, Sep. 2019, Invited Guest
Introduction: The Cleaners, SECRET SCIENCE CLUB, Jun. 2019, Speaker
Free Speech and the Internet, STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, May 2019, Panelist
Social Media and Democracy, HOOVER INSTITUTION AT STANFORD UNIV., May 2019, Paper Presenter
Social Media Governance Initiative, YALE LAW SCHOOL, May 2019, Speaker
Paper Presentation: Facebook v. Sullivan, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION SCHOLARS CONFERENCE YALE LAW
SCHOOL, Apr. 2019, Paper Presenter
Paper Presentation: Facebook v. Sullivan, BERKMAN KLEIN CENTER HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2019, Speaker
Faculty Workshop: Facebook v. Sullivan, BOSTON UNIV. LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2019, Speaker
Data Care Protection Act Workshop, STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, Mar. 2019, Presenter
Nebrooklyn: Junior Law and Tech Scholars Workshop, UNIV. OF CONN LAW SCHOOL, Mar. 2019, Presenter
International Law Colloquium: Speech Across Borders, TEMPLE LAW SCHOOL, Feb. 2019, Paper Discussant
Is Social Media Broken? And Can We Fix It?, UCLA LAW SCHOOL, Feb. 2019, Panelist
Internet Platforms’ Rising Dominance, Evolving Governance, UNIV. OF COLORADO BOULDER LAW SCHOOL,
Feb. 2019, Panelist
Faculty Workshop: Facebook v. Sullivan, LOYOLA UNIV. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2019, Speaker
Truth Decay: Deep Fakes and the Implications for Privacy, National Security and Democracy, UNIV. OF
MARYLAND LAW SCHOOL, Feb. 2019, Speaker
Holocaust Remembrance Day, TWITTER NYC, Jan. 2019, Speaker
Faculty Workshop: Facebook v. Sullivan, WASHINGTON LAW SCHOOL AT AMERICAN UNIV., Jan. 2019, Speaker
Never is Now: What Can We Do About Online Hate?, ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE, Dec. 2018, Panelist
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Paper Presentation: Facebook v. Sullivan, INFORMATION SOCIETY PROJECT AT YALE LAW SCHOOL, Nov. 2018,
Invited Speaker
Gender and the Law, FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL, Nov. 2018, Panelist
Censorship in the Digital Age, UNIV. OF CHICAGO, Oct. 2018, Panelist
Paper Presentation: Facebook v. Sullivan, SPEED Conference, CORNELL TECH, Sep. 2018, Presenter
Databite No. 114: Mike Ananny & Tarleton Gillespie in Conversation on Content Moderation, DATA &
SOCIETY, Sep. 2018, Discussion Moderator
Privacy Policy Roundtable in Washington, D.C., Sep. 2018, Google Fellow
Content Moderation in Practice, GEORGETOWN UNIV. LAW CENTER, Aug. 2018, Talk to Congressional Staffers
Tech Workshop, COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF INTERNATIONAL AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Jun. 2018, Speaker
Information Disorder Conference, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Jun. 2018, Speaker
Opportunities and Challenges in Regulating Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, LAW DEPARTMENT OF THE
EUROPEAN UNIV. INSTITUTE, May 2018, Presenter
Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2018, Paper Commentator
Book Round Table for Woody Hartzog, NOTRE DAME LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2018, Invited Participant
Hackathon on Harmful Speech, HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2018, Invited Discussion Leader
Social Media and National Security, STANFORD LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2018, Invited Speaker
WIII Online Speech Workshop, WIKIMEDIA AT YALE LAW SCHOOL, Feb. 2018, Invited Participant
Content Moderation & Removal at Scale, UNIV. OF SANTA CRUZ LAW SCHOOL, Feb. 2018, Moderator
Who’s Afraid of Online Speech?, NEW AMERICA AND FUTURE TENSE, Jan. 2018, Panel Member
Digital Impact: New York City, STANFORD DIGITAL CIVIL SOCIETY LAB, Oct. 2017, Panel Member
Free Speech, Hate Speech: Regulating Online Conversations, NEW SCHOOL, Oct. 2017, Panel Member
Academic Workshop: The New Governors, NORTHWESTERN LAW SCHOOL, Sep. 2017, Presenter
Academic Workshop: The New Governors, UNIV. OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, Sep. 2017, Presenter
Fellows Workshop, GEORGETOWN UNIV. LAW CENTER, Aug. 2017, Presenter
Paper Presentation, DATA & SOCIETY, Aug. 2017, Presenter
Faculty Talk, UNIV. OF ARIZONA LAW SCHOOL, Apr. 2017, Presenter
Robot Salon, GOOGLEX, Apr. 2017, Salon Participant
Faculty Talk, BROWN UNIV. COGNITIVE SCIENCE AND PSYCHOLOGY DEPT., Mar. 2017, Presenter
Paper Presentation: The New Governors, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION SCHOLARS CONFERENCE YALE LAW SCHOOL,
May 2016, Presenter
Paper Presentation: The New Governors, Nebrooklyn Junior Scholars Conference, NEBRASKA LAW SCHOOL,
Mar. 2016, Presenter
Paper Presentation: The New Governors, Internet Law Works In Progress, NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL, Feb.
2016, Presenter
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The Future of Artificial Intelligence, NEW YORK UNIV., Jan. 2016, Panel Moderator
Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference, YALE LAW SCHOOL, May 2015, Discussant
Beyond IP 2, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Mar. 2015, Commentator
Paper Presentation: Apples to Applejacks, Works In Progress Intellectual Property, U.S. PATENT TRADE
OFFICE, Feb. 2015, Presenter
TEACHING EXPERIENCE_____________________________________________________________________
Internet Law, CORNELL TECH, Spring 2021, Visiting Professor
Property Law, ST. JOHN’S LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2021, Professor
Information Privacy Law Seminar, ST. JOHN’S LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2021, Professor
Property Law, ST. JOHN’S LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2020, Professor
Internet Law Seminar, ST. JOHN’S LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2020, Professor
Information Privacy Law Seminar, ST. JOHN’S LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2019, Professor
Internet Law Seminar, ST. JOHN’S LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2019, Professor
Property Law, ST. JOHN’S LAW SCHOOL, Fall 2018, Professor
Law & Psychology, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2018, Teaching Assistant, with Tom Tyler and Gideon Yaffe
Reading Group: Current Issues in Internet & First Amendment Law, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2018, Leader
First Amendment, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2018, Guest lecturer at invitation of Jack Balkin
Internet Regulation, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Fall 2017, Guest lecturer at invitation of Russ Feingold
Social Science and Institutional Design, YALE LAW SCHOOL, Spring 2017, Co-teacher with Tom Tyler
SELECT MEDIA APPEARANCES_______________________________________________________________
TELEVISION, RADIO, & PODCASTS
Facebook’s Oversight Board Has Upheld Trump’s Ban – What’s Next? DECODER, A VERGE PODCAST (May 11, 2021)
Michael Smerconish: Inside Facebook’s Oversight Board, CNN (May 8, 2021)
Oversight Board to Facebook: Nice Try, WHAT NEXT: TBD, A SLATE PODCAST (May 7, 2021)
Trump and the Facebook Oversight Board, WE THE PEOPLE PODCAST (May 6, 2021)
The Reid Out, MSNBC (May 5, 2021)
Rational Security: The ‘Definitely not Indefinitely Suspended’ Edition, LAWFARE PODCASTS (May 5, 2021)
What is Section 230 and Why Do People Want to Repeal It?, CBS: THIS MORNING SATURDAY (Apr. 10, 2021)
(featured interviewee)
Facebook’s Supreme Court Will Make a Major Decision, THE DIVE PODCAST: HARVARD LAW SCHOOL, (Apr. 11,
2021)
Trump v. Twitter, THE BREAKDOWN SHOW: LINCOLN PROJECT, (Mar. 29, 2021) (featured guest)
Facebook’s Shadow Court, VOX: THE WEEDS PODCAST (Mar. 20, 2021) (interviewed on Facebook Oversight
Board research as guest of Matthew Yglesias)
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The Supreme Court of Facebook, THE NEW YORKER RADIO HOUR (Feb. 12, 2021) (interviewed by New Yorker
Editor-in-Chief David Remnick)
Facebook’s Supreme Court, RADIOLAB PODCAST (Feb. 12, 2021) (featured subject in podcast)
Arbiters of Truth: Joan Donovan on Disinformation and Social Movements, LAWFARE PODCASTS (Jan. 28, 2021) (co-
host of podcast interviewing the research director at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics & Public
Policy on the importance of networks of communication and coordination in social media )
The High Court of Facebook, SLATE PODCASTS: THE GIST (Aug. 26, 2020) (guest host interviewing Noah Feldman
about Facebook’s new approach to speech disputes as guest host on The Gist)
Arbiters of Truth: Jillian C. York on Free Expression on a Broken Internet, LAWFARE PODCASTS (Jul. 30, 2020) (co-
host of podcast interviewing the director for International Freedom of Expression in internet content
moderation and free speech)
Everything You Need to Know About Section 230 in 5 Hours: A Five-Day Lunch Series, YALE INFORMATION
SOCIETY PROJECT & LAWFARE (Jun. 22-26, 2020) (moderator and organizer for five 90-minute panels on the
evolution and future of Section 230)
Post No Evil Redux, RADIOLAB PODCAST (Jun. 19, 2020) (featured expert)
David Ryan Polgar, Revisiting Section 230: Moderating Speech Online, ALL TECH IS HUMAN (Jun. 25, 2020)
(discussing the impact of 230 on online speech platforms)
Jeff Rosen, What is Section 230?, WE THE PEOPLE PODCAST (Jun. 4, 2020) (discussing Section 230 reform)
Julie Rose, Twitter and Trump, Art Forgery, Human Testing, TOP OF MIND WITH JULIE ROSE (Jun. 1, 2020)
(discussing labeling of Trump’s tweets and political speech)
Bobby Allyn, Stung By Twitter, Trump Signs Executive Order To Weaken Social Media Companies, NPR (May 28,
2020) (analyzing Trump’s executive order on social media)
Jacob Mchangama, Special Edition – Daphne Keller and Kate Klonick, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER PODCAST
(May 14, 2020) (guest as expert speaking on online speech during pandemic)
Arbiters of Truth: Charlie Warzel on the Pandemic Internet, LAWFARE PODCASTS (Apr. 23, 2020) (co-host of a
podcast interviewing New York Times opinion writer about the internet in the age of COVID-19)
Out of the Echo Chamber: Social Media and Internet Law, GALLUP NEWS (Apr. 8, 2020) (guest talking about trust,
media, and democracy)
Lizzie O’Leary, What Next TBD: Inside Facebook’s Supreme Court, SLATE PODCASTS (Feb. 21, 2020) (guest as
expert speaking on development of Facebook’s Oversight Board)
Arbiters of Truth: Alex Stamos on the Hard Tradeoffs of the Internet, LAWFARE PODCASTS (Feb. 13, 2020) (co-host of
a podcast interviewing former Facebook CSO on future of end to end encryption and content moderation)
Shelby Holliday, TikTok Gets Political Raising Concerns About Misinformation, WALL STREET JOURNAL VIDEO
(Jan. 28, 2020) (filmed as expert discussing how to understand TikTok’s problems with political speech)
Arbiters of Truth: What Fresh Hell Awaits in 2020, LAWFARE PODCASTS (Jan. 9, 2020) (co-host of podcast
discussing misinformation, disinformation and the role of tech and policy)
Who Should Govern Speech Online?, NOW THIS MEDIA (Dec. 8, 2019) (filmed a short video meme discussing
how to understand online speech and who should control it)
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Taylor Owen & David Skok, Kate Klonick on Facebook’s Oversight Board, BIG TECH PODCAST AT CIGI (Nov. 21,
2019) (podcast discussing journalistic and empirical data role at Facebook covering the development of the
Oversight Board)
Arbiters of Truth: Episode 1, LAWFARE PODCASTS (Oct. 31, 2019) (co-host of podcast discussing misinformation,
disinformation and the role of tech and policy)
Bob Garfield, When They Come for You, WNYC: ON THE MEDIA (Oct. 25, 2019) (discussing Mark Zuckerberg’s
First Amendment speech at Georgetown and implications of Congressional testimony)
David Greene, Facebook CEO Faced Lawmakers' Questions About Trustworthiness, NPR: MORNING EDITION (Oct.
24, 2019) (sole guest commenting on Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony)
Shannon Palus, The People Who Hold the Internet Together, SLATE: IF/THEN PODCAST (Oct. 9, 2019) (discussion of
my work on internet governance discussed in context of content moderation’s role in civility online)
Mike Masnick, The Facebook ‘Supreme Court’, TECH DIRT PODCAST (Sep. 24, 2019) (featured guest)
Jon Sopel, Facebook Unveils Its Plan for Oversight Board, BBC WORLD NEWS (Sep. 17, 2019) (discussing global
impact of Facebook’s Oversight Board)
Marin Kaste, Debate Over Policing Free Speech Intensifies As 8chan Struggles to Stay Online, NPR: ALL THINGS
CONSIDERED (Aug. 6, 2019) (discussing impact of El Paso shooting on internet free speech)
Aarti Shahani, White House Pushes To Report 'Political Bias' By Social Media Companies, NPR: ALL THINGS
CONSIDERED (May 17, 2019) (discussing White House social media bias reporting site)
Michael Smerconish, Your Privacy at Risk in Everyday Life, CNN (Mar. 16, 2019) (discussing privacy by
obscurity exercise I designed for my information privacy class)
Michael Smerconish, Your Privacy at Risk in Everyday Life, SIRIUS XM (Mar. 13, 2019) (discussing privacy by
obscurity exercise I designed for my information privacy class)
Scott Simon, How Easy It Is to Identify Strangers with Google, NPR: WEEKEND EDITION (Mar. 9, 2019) (discussing
privacy by obscurity exercise I designed for my information privacy class)
Denise Howell, This Week in Law: Videocast (Jan. 25, 2019) (featured guest)
Mike Masnick, No Easy Answers for Content Moderation, TECH DIRT PODCAST (Sep. 18, 2018) (featured guest)
David Folkenflik, Alex Jones and Infowars, ON POINT: NPR (Aug. 24, 2018) (featured guest)
Post No Evil, RADIOLAB PODCAST (Aug. 17, 2018) (featured expert)
Kai Ryssdal, Big Tech Is a Nation-State with a Constitutional Crisis, MARKETPLACE WITH KAI RYSSDAL (Aug. 14,
2018) (featured guest)
Jeff Rosen, Facebook and the Future of Democracy, WE THE PEOPLE PODCAST (Apr. 19, 2018) (featured guest)
Radio Sputnik, Facebook Used to Be Resistant to Gov't Pressure, That Has Changed, RADIO SPUTNIK (Jan. 5, 2018)
(interview discussing the ways in which online speech platforms are influenced to change their policies)
Martin Kaste, Groups Worry About Impact of Police Moves To Block Social Media, NPR: MORNING EDITION (Aug.
30, 2016) (radio guest discussing the right to internet access).
Tom Ashbrook, Online Mob Shaming, NPR: ON POINT (Jun. 23, 2016) (radio guest discussing online shaming)
PRINT & ONLINE
The Lincoln Project - LPTV: The Breakdown, Facebook’s Oversight Board (Mar. 30, 2021)
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Paul Barrett, Facebook’s New Board Has Incentives to Bring Back Donald Trump, BLOOMBERG (Mar. 23, 2021)
Alex Hern, Decoding emojis and defining 'support': Facebook's rules for content revealed, THE GUARDIAN (Mar. 23,
2021) (commented on Facebook’s detailed documents to the role of case law in the English and Welsh legal
system)
Marcela Kunova, Yes, we need to regulate Facebook. But how?, JOURNALISM (Mar. 3, 2021)
Sarah Frier, Facebook’s Oversight Board to Decide Whether Trump Keeps Account, BLOOMBERG (Jan. 23, 2021)
David Ingram, The day the internet turned on Trump, NBC NEWS (Jan. 10, 2021)
Olivia Solon & Jo Ling Kent, Facebook's new Oversight Board strives to be seen as independent, NBC NEWS
(Oct. 23, 2020) (commenting on the Oversight Board’s potential to change private corporations’ and
public rights’ relationship)
Anna Wiener, Trump, Twitter, Facebook, and the Future of Online Speech, NEW YORKER (Jul. 6, 2020) (work in the
Harvard Law Review cited and discussed)
Shirin Ghaffary, Facebook nears a tipping point when it comes to moderating hate speech, VOX (Jun. 30, 2020)
(commenting on the change in Twitter’s speech policies)
Cecilia Kang & Kate Conger, Snap Says It Will No Longer Promote Trump’s Account, NEW YORK TIMES (Jun. 3,
2020 (commenting on impact of Snap’s decision on its bottom line and social media censorship)
Amanda Robert, Legal experts question legitimacy of Trump’s order limiting social media platforms, ABA JOURNAL
(May 29, 2020) (commenting on legality of executive order on social media)
Steven Overly, Trump launches his salvo against social media – will it land?, POLITICO (May 28, 2020) (analyzing
the effect of Trump’s executive order on online speech)
Maggie Haberman & Kate Conger, Trump Prepares Order to Limit Social Media Companies’ Protections, NEW
YORK TIMES (May 28, 2020) (credited with leaking advance leaked copy of executive order on social media)
Shirin Ghaffary, Trump’s executive order on social media is legally unenforceable, experts say, VOX (May 28, 2020)
(commenting on Trump’s executive order)
Jan Wolfe, Trump’s order taking aim at Twitter is ‘bluster’: legal experts, REUTERS (May 28, 2020) (discussing
executive order on social media neutrality).
Issie Lapowski, How Facebook’s Oversight Board Could Re-write the Rules of the Internet, PROTOCOL (May 6, 2020)
(discussing the Oversight Board’s long-term impact on online speech and platforms)
Mathew Ingram, What We Need to Do to Fight Disinformation, COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REV. (Apr. 7, 2020)
(interview discussing misinformation and disinformation in age of COVID-19)
Laurence Dodds, Britain’s ‘Duty of Care’ Regulator Will Hurt Us, Social Networks Warn, THE TELEGRAPH (Feb.
24, 2020) (quoted expert on the effect of speech regulation on tech companies)
Facebook Unveils Details of Its Content-Oversight Board, THE ECONOMIST (Jan. 30, 2020) (quoted expert on the
Oversight Board)
Mark Latonero, Can Facebook’s Oversight Board Win People’s Trust?, HARVARD BUSINESS REV. (Jan. 29, 2020)
(quoted expert)
Steven Levy, Why Mark Zuckerberg’s Oversight Board May Kill His Political Ad Policy, WIRED (Jan. 28, 2020)
(quoted expert)
Georgia Wells & Emily Glazer, TikTok Wants to Stay Politics Free. That Could Be Tough in 2020, WALL STREET
JOURNAL (Jan. 5, 2020) (discussing the growth of speech platforms)
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Jeff Horwitz, Facebook Pledges $130 Million to Fund ‘Supreme Court’ for Content, WALL STREET JOURNAL (Dec. 12,
2019) (discussing the investment of Facebook in endowing Oversight Board)
Tony Romm, A 17 year-old Posted to TikTok About China’s Detention Camps. She Was Locked Out of Her Account,
WASHINGTON POST (Nov. 26. 2019) (interviewed about role of China in censorship on new video platform)
Mathew Ingram, Facebook, Free Speech and Political Ads, COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REV. (Oct. 31, 2019) (interview
discussing online speech, censorship and Facebook’s new political ad policy)
Tony Romm, Facebook Unveils Charter for Its 'Supreme Court,' Where Users Can Go to Contest the Company's
Decisions, WASHINGTON POST (Sep. 17, 2019) (discussing the “Supreme Court” of Facebook)
Sarah Frier & Kurt Wagner, Facebook Releases Rules for Its Independent Content Board, BLOOMBERG (Sep. 17,
2019) (discussing scope of Facebook Oversight Board)
Jeff Horowitz, Facebook Forms Independent Board to Oversee Content Decisions, WALL STREET JOURNAL (Sep. 17,
2019) (discussing the release of Facebook’s charter for its new Oversight Board)
Ethan Baron, Facebook Reveals How Its Content-Dispute Final-Appeals Board Will Work, MERCURY NEWS (Sep. 17,
2019) (discussing the context around the new Oversight Board at Facebook)
Deepa Seetharaman & Jeff Horowitz, Facebook’s Effort to Build an Internal Court for Content Is Far from Simple,
WALL STREET JOURNAL (Jun. 27, 2019) (discussing Facebook Global Consultancy Report)
Kurt Wagner, Facebook is Building an Oversight Board. Can That Fix Its Problems? BLOOMBERG TECHNOLOGY
(Jun. 24, 2019) (discussing Oversight Board)
David Hudson, Free Speech or Censorship? Social Media Litigation Is a Hot Legal Battleground, ABA JOURNAL
(Apr. 1, 2019) (discussing online censorship)
Francesca Paris, Googling Strangers: One Professor’s Lessons on Privacy in Public Space, NPR.COM (Mar. 10, 2019)
(discussing privacy by obscurity exercise I designed for my information privacy class)
Cary Doctorow, A Brilliant, Simple Exercise to Teach Privacy Fundamentals, BOINGBOING (Mar. 6, 2019)
(discussing privacy by obscurity exercise I designed for my information privacy class)
Laurence Dodds, Can Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘Supreme Court’ End Facebook’s Era of Absolute Monarchy?, THE
TELEGRAPH (Feb. 18, 2019) (discussing proposed creation of Facebook’s “Supreme Court”)
Molly Roberts, Facebook Has Declared Sovereignty, WASHINGTON POST (Feb. 5, 2019) (discussing private
governance and work cited)
Scott Rosenberg, Facebook’s Constitutional Moment, AXIOS (Feb. 14, 2019) (featured expert)
Max Fisher, How Far Should Facebook Go in Regulating Users’ Speech?, NEW YORK TIMES (Jan. 10, 2019) (expert)
Georgia Wells, How a German Social Media Company Has Tamed the Trolls, WALL STREET JOURNAL (Oct. 6, 2018)
(featured expert)
Joseph Bernstein, Meet the Free Speech Lawyer Fighting to Keep Nazis and Trolls on Twitter, BUZZFEED (Sep. 21,
2018) (featured expert)
Farhad Manjoo, What Jack Dorsey and Sheryl Sandberg Taught Congress and Vice Versa, NEW YORK TIMES (Sep. 6,
2018) (featured expert)
Steve Coll, Alex Jones, The First Amendment, and the Digital Public Square, THE NEW YORKER (Aug. 20, 2018)
(featured expert and work cited).
Tim Johnson, Trump Foes Move Toward Public Shaming Even of Low-Level Officials, MCCLATCHY DC (Jun. 25,
2018) (expert)
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Matt Drange & Reed Albergotti, Free Speech Lawsuits Pressure Tech Firms on Content Removal, THE
INFORMATION (Apr. 12, 2018) (expert)
Issie Lapowski, Chuck Johnson's Twitter Free Speech Suit is Probably DOA, WIRED (Jan. 11, 2018) (discussing the
limits of the First Amendment in online speech and platforms)
Rebecca Tushnet, From Status Update to Social Media Contract, JOTWELL (Nov. 29, 2017) (profile and review of
The New Governors and commentary on its impact on legal scholarship and online speech)
Jessica Schladebeck, There's No Clear Reason Why Rose McGowan Was Suspended on Twitter but Trump Wasn't,
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (Oct. 12, 2017) (discussing Twitter is evolving different rules for types of users)
Hayley Tsukayama, Twitter Blocked a Congresswoman’s Antiabortion Ad over ‘Baby Body Parts.’ But It Allowed an
Identical Tweet, WASHINGTON POST (Oct. 10, 2017) (discussing Twitter’s application of different rules)
Kelsey Atherton, Facebook Can't Solve its Hate Speech Problem with Automation, POPULAR SCIENCE (July 7, 2017)
(discussing how automation can be used to resolve problems with hate speech)
Emma Ellis, Filtering Your World Is Understandable but It’s Not Helpful, WIRED (July 5, 2017) (discussing the
psychological role of media echo-chambers and self-selected content)
Kelsey Atherton, Facebook Is Hiring 3000 New Content Monitors for a Job AI Cannot Do, POPULAR SCIENCE (May
4, 2017) (discussing the problems of using AI for content moderation)
David Boroff, Facebook Adding 3,000 People to Review Videos of Crimes, Suicides Posted Online: 'We Need to
Respond Quickly', NEW YORK DAILY NEWS (May 3, 2017) (discussing Facebook’s hiring of human moderators)
Deepa Seetharaman, After Posting of Violent Videos, Facebook Will Add 3,000 Content Monitors, WALL STREET
JOURNAL (May 3, 2017) (discussing history and context of Facebook’s new moderators)
How Online Campaigning Is Influencing Britain’s Election, THE ECONOMIST (May 27, 2017) (discussing the
psychological role of fake news and social media echo-chambers on election results and voting)
Michael Farrell, After 'Facebook Killing,' Social Media Confronts Its Dark Side, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
(Apr. 20, 2017) (discussing the posting of the Cleveland murder and the implications for free speech)
Liam Stack, No, Google Says, It Did Not Delete ‘Palestine’ From Its Maps, NEW YORK TIMES (Aug. 11, 2016)
(discussing the effects of online shaming over false reports).
Alex Speirs, Ghost in the Machine: AI, Law, Ethics—What Does It Mean For You?, GENERAL COUNSEL MAGAZINE
(Summer 2016) (discussing robotics and artificial intelligence and the law)
Josh Brustein & Jing Cao, Did Nintendo Fire an Employee to Appease a Gamergate Mob?, BLOOMBERG (Apr. 4,
2016) (discussing online shaming and real-world legal ramifications)
Karishma Mehrotra, Popular Herbal Remedy at Center of Trademark Fight, BOSTON GLOBE (June 16, 2015)
(discussing genericide defense and trademark generally)
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