Confronting the First Amendment’s dark history
Media/Social media
Donald Trump’s election win, aided in part by online disinformation, has reignited the debate over whether the First Amendment’s protections are adequate in today’s digital age. The contemporary understanding of the First Amendment’s free speech clause is anchored in the "marketplace of ideas" theory, but this notion is under severe strain in an era where information is filtered through algorithms engineered to prioritize profit over truth. Professor Mary Anne Franks argues that our ideas of
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