Tune in to: How Do Social Media Feeds Actually Work? a panel discussion w/ Knight Institute Sr. Policy Fellow @oliviersylvain.bsky.social, and C4D's Laura Edelson (@whiskeyocelot.bsky.social) and @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social. Thurs. Feb. 26, 1-2 pm. Streaming: www.youtube.com/@Cybersecuri...

Tune in tomorrow! Looking forward to moderating this talk with @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social and @oliviersylvain.bsky.social.

Very pleased that New York City will have an inaugural poet and such a fine one in the great Cornelius Eady. Poet Elizabeth Alexander of the Mamdani arts and culture transition committee doing good work: “Poets and artists…can say things that politicians can’t say.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/n...

An excellent op-ed by @attorneynora.bsky.social laying out the Trump admin’s campaign of censorship. In her full report (www.freepress.net/download/cho...), she chronicles ~200 instances of attempted censorship this year. It’s incredibly important reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/o...

Trump consolidating his influence over TikTok, a platform used by 170m Americans. If you doubt that this outcome serves American democracy or security, take it up with SCOTUS. www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader. So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.

@techpolicypress.bsky.social asked me to comment on the White House's EO to block state AI laws. Shorter: its focus on interstate commerce, "truthful AI," & innovation are a flop. The President is not as powerful as he pretends. Enlisting DoJ & FTC won't help; they are bound by law.

@techpolicypress.bsky.social asked me to comment on the WH's EO on state AI laws. Shorter: its focus on interstate commerce, "truthful AI," & innovation are a flop. The Pres isn't as powerful as he pretends. Enlisting DoJ & FTC won't help; they are bound by law. www.techpolicy.press/why-trumps-a...

EPIC collaborated w/ @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy (@yaeleisenstat.bsky.social @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social) & Tech Justice Law Project on a brief telling the Ninth Circuit to deny Meta Section 230 protections for its allegedly addictive design. 11 legal scholars joined!

EPIC led a coalition of legal scholars including @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy, and Tech Justice Law Project to file a Ninth Circuit amicus brief arguing against Meta’s use of Section 230 to shield itself from lawsuits. 🧵 #Meta #SocialMedia #Section230

I bring you a tiny bit of good news — courts are finally reining in Big Tech in significant ways. We could actually be on the cusp of a totally transformed tech landscape - after 30 years of total lack of constraints. My latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link)

Grateful for President Maud Mandel's strong, principled leadership of Williams College right now. cc: @oliviersylvain.bsky.social @rlevinsonwaldman.bsky.social @jaystanley.bsky.social @ethanz.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

I'm thrilled that we're hosting such a great group of thinkers to talk about one of the defining issues of our day.

US states have stepped up to regulate consumer-facing online services where the federal government has been utterly silent, writes Olivier Sylvain (@oliviersylvain.bsky.social). The laws can be lumped into three categories: content moderation, data protection, and child online safety laws.

Prof. @oliviersylvain.bsky.social explains how state laws on content moderation, data protection, & child online safety have proliferated. But while states step up to regulate social media where the federal government has been silent, big tech is not sitting idly by.

Today's post by brave Columbia public law scholars/friends shows how unhinged the admin's 3/13 Title VI demand letter is. This is how Columbia & others can/should fight back. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti.... I am proud to know these folks. Onward.

Some of my Columbia Law School colleagues and I offer our thoughts on legal issues with the Administration's March 13, 2025 letter to our University's president, and its threat to academic freedom. balkin.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-ti...

Knight Institute Condemns Trump Administration’s Effort to “Subjugate Universities to Official Power.” knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

Government’s wins are often invisible: Systems that avoid plane crashes; alliances that avert war; surveillance that prevent pandemics. Government wins are often *the avoidance of loss.* So how do we tell the story of the destruction of government? The story of future losses *not* averted?

Keeping this list up to date must feel like a fulltime job.

Trump is calling for ethnic cleansing—“clean out that whole thing” was his phrase!—but the NYT manages to make him sound like a humanitarian.

Hard to hedge on this one. Best part of the segment: @steveinskeep.bsky.social googles and reads aloud the remarkable text for himself to see how far this President has actually gone.

So much to say/consider about this.

The FTC's Office of Technology, along with partners in the Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection, have just post a couple blog posts over the past couple of days. All are fascinating and make plain the Commission is still on the beat, despite likely imminent leadership changes.