Genevieve Lakier

Dec 10, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Jameel Jaffer |Genevieve Lakier

Share Last week, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a federal law that threatens to shut down TikTok in the United States.

Dec 10, 2024 | nytimes.com | Jameel Jaffer |Genevieve Lakier

Last week, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a federal law that threatens to shut down TikTok in the United States. The court's most consequential conclusion: The First Amendment permits the government to protect Americans from covert foreign manipulation by restricting their access to foreign-controlled media - even when that means Americans' speech is restricted, too.

Nov 10, 2024 | harvardlawreview.org | Evelyn Douek |Genevieve Lakier

“[T]he First Amendment,” Justice Kagan declared in Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, one of the five platform First Amendment cases the Court decided this Term, “does not go on leave when social media are involved.” That is obviously true. But no one seriously contests the claim that the First Amendment applies to the internet. The era when people argued that law should not, or perhaps could not, reach into the vast realms of cyberspace is decades behind us.

Apr 3, 2024 | knightcolumbia.org | Jameel Jaffer |Genevieve Lakier

Institute UpdateA new season of “Views on First” about free speech and the war in Israel and Gaza Today, we’re launching “War & Speech,” a podcast exploring the free speech fallout of the war in Israel and Gaza. Over the next few weeks, I’ll be talking to scholars, advocates, and others about the ways in which the war taking place half a world away is testing our system of free speech here in the United States.

Dec 20, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Evelyn Douek |Genevieve Lakier

Earlier this month, Congress held a dramatic hearing with the heads of three private corporations that manage important forums for public debate. Members of Congress criticized these leaders in the strongest possible terms for their alleged failure to stem harmful speech on their property.