Civil Liberties

The solution is not to give government or platforms more power to make opaque, arbitrary decisions on content, but to help users protect themselves.

Can a change of perspective dislodge the assumed inevitability of an enduring democracy?

Under what circumstances may the government use lethal and non- or lesser-lethal force in the face of unlawful protests, riots, and looting?

What the available research says about systemic discrimination in law enforcement as well as links to racist and white supremacist ideology.

Evidence points to specific White Supremacist and far-right groups having infiltrated George Floyd protests, writes scholar of violent extremism, Georgia State University professor…

Even if it doesn't lead to action, the threat of regulatory pressure aims to bully social media companies into continuing their hands-off approach to Trump.

That depends on how it will weigh Facebook’s community standards and values against global norms in its content-moderation decisions.

Watch leading scholars and practitioners from around the world discuss the human rights and social justice implications. And then join in.

The ongoing health crisis triggers consideration of the lack of an articulated emergency framework in the Italian Constitution, and whether existing tools are suitable to face…

This board, for content moderation, may be part of the answer to problems of online speech and censorship. But U.N. Special Rapporteur David Kaye explains that it is only one part.

World Press Freedom Day is a reminder that we need to emerge from this crisis ready to reimagine how to support news media as critical infrastructure.

The Hungarian and Polish governments’ exploitation of the COVID-19 pandemic for their own ends poses a significant challenge for the EU with consequences that will be present…