Despite our society’s collective addiction to scrolling through social media, many of us can’t help but feel a twinge of dread when seeing notifications we’ve missed. For every clever meme, ...

Social media users consider it "normal" to encounter online hate speech on social media and see it as part of the online environment. In certain contexts, they find it more normal than in others; for ...

The Supreme Court will hear an array of legal arguments involving social media’s free speech wars this term, with a series of dicey cases that could reshape how public officials and U.S. government ...

The role of social media and online speech in civil society has come under heightened scrutiny. The deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 is just one example of violence which national security ...

The California Legislature is advancing Senate Bill 771, which would have a chilling effect on free speech on social media. Under the bill, which sits in the state Assembly after being passed by the ...

In the digital era, social media platforms such as Facebook and X have transformed into pivotal arenas for public discourse, yet they are also fraught with controversies over censorship, free speech, ...

The “fire in a crowded theater” case involved neither a fire, nor a theater, nor a crowd, and resulted in one of the worst Supreme Court decisions ever reached. But the phrase fire in a crowded ...