In anticipation of the US Supreme Court’s hearing of Murthy v. Missouri (formerly Missouri v Biden), I took another look at Stanford’s COVID censorship initiativeIn November 2023 Alex Gutentag and I reported on…

The digital rights field has turned against its free expression roots. We are planning to change that.liber-net, the digital civil liberties initiative I lead, is hosting a convening of digital…

Setting the stage for 2024liber-net, the digital civil liberties initiative I direct, is set to grow in 2024. As a result of new donor support we’re hiring a Europe or…

The Twitter Files and the Westminster Declaration have sparked some interestExcuse the radio silence, some long-form work is in the making. Over the past few weeks however, I’ve done several…

An investigation by Alex Gutentag and I sheds light on the Stanford Internet Observatory’s dirty tricks to combat “anti-vaccine disinformation”It is now completely clear that the Virality Project, an initiative…

A new tool in the fight for free speechToday we launch the Westminster Declaration, a statement opposing the cynical use of “countering disinformation” as a tool for censorship, and the…

Threading the needle amid the new crackdown on free expressionJust a few months ago I visited Israel for the first time in 40 years. I stayed in a distant aunt’s…

A contribution to the challenge of digital authoritarianismAfter wrapping up nearly 18 years at the head of a digital rights NGO I promised myself I’d go and do something different,…

A new article by myself and Matt Taibbi has just dropped on Racket, along with a short tweet threadThis Twitter File follows yesterday’s insane display by Democrats at the most…