Liability for Amplification of Disinformation: A Law of Unintended Consequences?

Liability for Amplification of Disinformation: A Law of Unintended Consequences?

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This blog is part of ACS’s Blog Symposium remembering and analyzing the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The New Year 2022 had barely begun when Twitter announced that it had permanently suspended the personal account of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), claiming that she had violated its policies against spreading falsehoods about Covid-19. This wasn’t the congresswoman’s first brush with Twitter’s misinformation policy. Her account was suspended several times for shorter periods during the summer of 2020, also for false claims about the coronavirus and the vaccines that target it. But a tweet on January 1, 2022 […]


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