Authors:

  • Thomas Wheeler

Excerpt

May 23, 2022, Opinion: "Recent headlines graphically illustrate that the United States has yet to discover how to deal with the intersection of free speech and online behavior. Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter and promised to reduce the amount of content moderation on the platform. An 18-year-old gunman killed 10 people in a Buffalo supermarket and streamed the massacre live online. A federal court allowed a new Texas law to go into effect making it illegal for online platforms to block or otherwise edit content."

M-RCBG Senior Research Fellow - Tom Wheeler