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California’s New AI Laws
This week, let’s highlight five new laws enacted in California that regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI), and especially the use of deepfakes in election campaigns and the entertainment industry.
Navigating the New Reality of AI in Political Advertising
This week, let’s focus on Meta’s latest announcement about the use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”) in online political advertising, paralleling the recent executive order on AI.
Trans-Atlantic Perspectives: How the U.S. and UK Are Tackling Online Content Regulation
This week, let’s look at the UK’s new Online Safety Bill and contrast it from the arguments over the First Amendment in the Netchoice cases now before the Supreme Court.
The Escalating Battle Against Disinformation in a Digitally-Driven World
This week, we'll dissect the debates surrounding disinformation, which is poised to become even more prevalent as AI is used to fabricate counterfeit images, videos, and audio.
Wake up Florida – New State Laws Imperil Freedom and Privacy
This week, let’s consider some new state laws in Florida, including the “Stop WOKE Act”, that imperil both freedom and privacy.
Code = Speech in Wyoming, but what about Poisoned Code?
This week, let’s examine a Wyoming bill designed to protect software developers from criminal liability for the code they write.
Free Speech, Twitter and the Law of Unintended Consequences
This week, let’s consider free speech, the regulation of big tech platforms and the famous law of unintended consequences in light of Justice Clarence Thomas’s recent concurrence in Knight Institute v. Trump.
The First Amendment in the Age of Disinformation
This week, we consider the First Amendment in an era of disinformation.
Privacy and the First Amendment
This week, let’s consider the looming conflict between privacy and the First Amendment as Clearview AI — a controversial start-up that sells a facial recognition technology built on photos scraped from the internet — reportedly prepares a First Amendment defense.
Back to the Future – Revisiting Section 230
This week, let’s consider an old law—Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act —now being targeted by a new executive order.