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Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users
Daphne Keller
Daphne Keller directs the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Until 2015, she was Google’s Associate General Counsel.

She thanks Max Levy for his work on this Essay.

In his quixotic bid to buy and reform Twitter, Elon Musk swiftly arrived at the same place nearly every tech mogul does: he doesn’t want censorship, but he does want to be able to suppress some legal speech.

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La Liberte v. Reid and the Anti-SLAPP Split
Lina Dayem
Lina Dayem is an Articles Editor of The University of Chicago Law Review and a J.D. candidate in the University of Chicago Law School Class of 2022. She received her B.A. in 2013 and M.A. in 2017, both from the University of Chicago.

A picture is worth a thousand words—but only in certain federal circuits.

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What Kind of Oversight Board Have You Given Us?
Evelyn Douek
Evelyn Douek is a lecturer on law and S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society. She studies global regulation of online speech, private content moderation, institutional design, and comparative free speech law and theory. She has participated, at Facebook’s invitation, in several workshops on the FOB, all unpaid and in her academic capacity. Tweet @evelyndouek.

The Facebook Oversight Board (the “FOB”) will see you now—well, at least a very small number of a select subset of you.