Can free speech and content moderation on social media
coexist?
Jonathan Rauch and Ren?e DiResta discuss the
complexities of content moderation on social media platforms. They
explore how platforms balance free expression with the need to
moderate harmful content and the consequences of censorship in a
digital world.
Jonathan
Rauch is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and
the author of “The
Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth” and
“Kindly
Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought.” Ren?e DiResta was the
technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory and
contributed to the Election Integrity Partnership report and the
Virality Project. Her new book is “Invisible
Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality.”
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
03:14 Content moderation and free speech
12:33 The Election Integrity Partnership
18:43 What activity does the First Amendment not
protect?
21:44 Backfire effect of moderation
26:01 The Virality Project
30:54 Misinformation over the past decade
37:33 Did Trump’s Jan 6th speech meet the standard for
incitement?
44:12 Double standards of content moderation
01:00:05 Jawboning
01:11:10 Outro
Show notes:
Election Integrity
Partnership report (2021)
The Virality Project
(2022)
Moody v. NetChoice and
NetChoice v. Paxton (2024)
“This Place
Rules” (2022)
Murthy v. Missouri (2024)
“Why
Scholars Should Stop Studying ‘Misinformation’,” by Jacob
N. Shapiro and Sean Norton (2024)
“FIRE
Statement on Free Speech and Social Media”
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