Internet & Communications Law - Harvard Law Review

Social Media Companies Should Pursue Serious Self-Supervision — Soon: Response to Professors Douek and Kadri

Response to Juridical Discourse for Platforms, Content Moderation as Systems Thinking

Vol. 136 No. 8 June 2023 We understand why eighty-two percent of Americans regularly use social media. Social media networking platforms offer speedy communication and entertainment at no immediate cost...

First Amendment: Speech Recent Case

Garnier v. O’Connor-Ratcliff

Ninth Circuit Finds First Amendment Violation in School District Officials' Blocking of Parents on Social Media.

Vol. 136 No. 5 March 2023

Ku Klux Klan Act Essay

The Anti-Klan Act in the Twenty-First Century

Vol. 136 No. 4 February 2023 Racial terrorism by organized hate groups and “lone wolf” vigilantes presents a growing societal danger. Increasingly, the planning and recruitment for such plots occur...

William M. Carter Jr.

Content Moderation Response

Juridical Discourse for Platforms

Response to Content Moderation as Systems Thinking

Vol. 136 No. 2 December 2022 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has created a private “Supreme Court,” or so he says. Since 2021, his company’s Oversight Board has issued verdicts on...

Thomas E. Kadri

Content Moderation Article

Content Moderation as Systems Thinking

Vol. 136 No. 2 December 2022 This Article argues that content moderation should instead be understood as a project of mass speech administration and that looking past a post-by-post evaluation of platform decisionmaking reveals a complex and dynamic system that needs a more proactive and continuous form of governance than the vehicle of individual error correction allows.

Evelyn Douek

Regulation Note

The Awareness Doctrine

Vol. 135 No. 7 May 2022 The state of news media leaves much to be desired. Traditional broadcast mediums are dominated by a select few voices that overwhelmingly push partisan...

Criminal Law Recent Case

United States v. Wilson

Ninth Circuit Holds That Officer's Warrantless Review of Images Flagged by Google as Apparent Child Sexual Abuse Material Violated Fourth Amendment

Vol. 135 No. 6 April 2022

Constitutional Law Recent Case

Campbell v. Reisch

Eighth Circuit Finds State Representative Not a State Actor When Blocking Constituents on Twitter

Vol. 135 No. 6 April 2022

Internet & Communications Law Essay

Facebook’s Faces

March 2022 The case of the suspension of former President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts clarified the relationship between Facebook and its Oversight Board. To...

Chinmayi Arun

Internet & Communications Law Response

Beware of Giant Tech Companies Bearing Jurisprudential Gifts

Response to Privacy as Privilege: The Stored Communications Act and Internet Evidence

Vol. 134 No. 8 June 2021 Giant tech companies are not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but mostly because their rapacious approach to data surveillance leaves little time for...

Kiel Brennan-Marquez