Nick Queff.

Beyond U.S., Democracies Weaponize Free Speech in Immigration Crackdowns Despite U.S. administration's criticism of Europe, its targeting of immigrants for unpopular speech mimics similar policies across the Atlantic.

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Can Europe Stop Elon Musk? He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.

American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

‼️ Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation ‼️

Here is Peter Pomerantsev with a must-read article in The Observer. One of the topics explored is new ways in which journalism can tackle disinformation.

Short thread summarising this ⬇️. (1/6)

What makes the US truly exceptional Are American pathologies the necessary price of economic dynamism?

www.ft.com/content/a757...

I’ll defend Allison Pearson’s right to be obnoxious – as she should defend mine | Kenan Malik Police investigation into writer’s alleged tweet has sparked a debate over free speech, albeit a somewhat selective one

“Free speech is an essential weapon in the struggle for social change… But a selective defence of free speech is no defence at all. Demanding ‘free speech for me but not for thee’: that is the voice of privilege, not of progress”

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Don’t assume the first amendment will thwart Trump’s pro-censorious agenda | Jameel Jaffer With Trump in the Oval Office, the US supreme court will find itself having to answer questions it has sidestepped for years

Important (if scary) piece. What's scarier is its general point --that 1A law may end up providing much less of a safeguard than we might think in the Trump era--could apply to many other areas of law, such as for example, the regulation of universities www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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