Readings: The Problem
Eugene Volokh, “No, there’s no ‘hate speech’ exception to the First Amendment,” The Washington Post (May 7, 2015)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-h ate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/?utm_term=.78330882267d archived at
https://perma.cc/ASES-HMQE. Jon Ronson, “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life,” The New York
Times Magazine (February 12, 2015) http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-sacc os-life.html?_r=0 archived at httos://perma.cc/3AHS-Z9EU.
Adrian Chen, “The Agency,” The New York Times Magazine (June 2, 2015) http://Awww.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/magazine/the-agency.html?_r=0 archived at https://perma.cc/BER2-TD6E.
Reeves Wiedeman, “The Sandy Hook Hoax,” The New York Magazine (September 5, 2016) http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/09/the-sandy-hook-hoax.html archived at https://perma.cc/T9YD-U8Z9.
Gilad Lotan, “Fake News Is Not the Only Problem,” Points (November 22, 2016) https://points.datasociety.net/fake-news-is-not-the-problem-f00ec8cdfcb#.kwt01pk4h
archived at https://perma.cc/B3FK-FJVX. Craig Silverman, “How Teens In The Balkans Are Duping Trump Supporters With Fake
News,” BuzzFeed (November 3, 2016)
https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/how-macedonia-became-a-qlobal-hub-for-pro- trump-misinfo?utm_term=.nlpEm5kbY#.apomjqWiID archived at
https://perma.cc/SB2G-9XUM. Caitlin Dewey, “Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House
because of me,” The Washington Post (November 17, 2016) https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2016/11/17/facebook-fake-news -writer-i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me/?utm_ term=.e2d9c7b0
d5e6 archived at https://perma.cc/B6S4-UBJC.
The Search for Solutions
Andy Greenberg, “Inside Google’s Internet Justice League and Its Al-Powered War on Trolls,” Wired (September 19, 2016) https://www.wired.com/2016/09/inside-googles-internet-justice-league-ai-powered-war-tr
olls/ archived at https://oerma.cc/K56R-MGBX. Dia Kayyali and Danny O’Brien, “Facing the Challenge of Online Harassment” Electronic
Frontier Foundation (January 8, 2015) https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/20 15/0 1/facing-challenge-online-harassment, archived at https://perma.cc/98RS-L876.
State v. Robert Bishop, 223PA15 (June 10, 2016)
https://h2o.law.harvard.edu/collages/42536.
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