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Electronic Frontier Foundation
July 7, 2023
Rob Pegoraro
A Judge Says Biden Can’t Scold Social Media Firms. That Makes Zero Sense.
His ruling seems more interested in ideological grievance than the First Amendment.
October 7, 2020
Melissa Gira Grant
Imagining the Post-Trump Internet
The idea that social media platforms need to be made civilly or even criminally liable for harmful content appears to be gaining ground in Congress.
October 4, 2016
Nicole Narea
Yahoo’s surveillance program shows why internet companies shouldn’t be deputies of law enforcement.
March 15, 2012
Nick Robins-Early
Meet the Cynical Western Companies Helping the Syrian Regime
March 31, 1997
Jeffrey Rosen
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