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Facebook and the Future of Democracy

April 19, 2018

Jeffrey Rosen discusses the recent Facebook hearings and the broader impact of social media on free speech and democracy with Nate Persily of Stanford Law and Kate Klonick of Yale Law School.

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Kate Klonick is a Ph.D. in Law candidate and a Resident Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale. She studies emerging conflicts in law and technology and is the author of the forthcoming article, “The New Governors: The People, Rules, and Processes Governing Online Speech.”
 

Nate Persily is James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, and recently served as research director for the U.S. Presidential Commission on Election Administration. He is the co-author of The Law and Democracy casebook, and has written on the Internet’s impact on U.S. democracy.

 

Jeffrey Rosen is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the National Constitution Center, the only institution in America chartered by Congress “to disseminate information about the United States Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.” 
 


 

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