Seems right to me. theverge.com/2022/10/28/234…

Important, chilling story from The Intercept about Iran's apparatus of repression.

New Twitter sounds suspiciously like old Twitter.

Turkish 'anti-disinformation' bill gives government broad censorship power, backed by criminal sanctions. advox.globalvoices.org/2022/10/21/tur…

Today would be a good day for the Biden admin to release the #Khashoggi docs that the Public Interest Declassification Board has said should be released. knightcolumbia.org/content/knight…

The firestorm over a congressional letter whose position was scarcely distinguishable from that of the Biden administration does not speak well of the quality of debate over a conflict that has no easy answers and no end in sight.

New: Knight First Amendment Institute sues CIA, ODNI and Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB) seeking immediate release of a full U.S. intelligence report on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi following The Wall Street Journal story on PIDB recommending its release to Biden (fixes typo) wsj.com/articles/biden…

'What we talk about when we talk about 'editorial discretion,'' by Genevieve Lakier & Evelyn Douek, for Knight First Amendment Institute. (Okay, that's not the title, but it should have been.) knightcolumbia.org/blog/rereading…

At Centre for Media, Technology & Democracy last week, I talked about the hugely significant social media cases the US Supreme Court is likely to hear this term, and I made the case for a “digital public sphere that serves democracy.” Thanks to Taylor Owen for the invitation. knightcolumbia.org/blog/a-digital…

I, too, have written about Jihad Rehab, a film that raises far more complicated questions than the recent cancel culture narratives suggest theguardian.com/film/2022/oct/…

OLC doing some good work here.

There are more boarding zones on this Air Canada flight to Montréal than there are seats.

Just published the first essays from Knight First Amendment Institute and Genevieve Lakier’s Lies, Free Speech, and the Law symposium back in April! I’ve written a brief introduction to them here: knightcolumbia.org/blog/knight-in…

I'll be speaking at McGill University tomorrow--with Frances Haugen & Taylor Owen--about free speech and the regulation of social media. Registration (and livestream info) here:

Whew! Wouldn’t it be great if the most brilliant, real, prepared candidate actually won the right to lead the state? #VOTE Georgia. #VOTE

In case it’s not absolutely obvious, the people attacking Mehdi Hasan for this are not operating in good faith. It tells you everything you need to know that, after these past two weeks, this is the person they’re trying to cancel—rather than Trump or Kanye or Elon.