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Social-Media Companies ‘Threaten Democracy’

Aug 27, 2019 | 72 videos
Video by The Atlantic

Today social-media companies such as Facebook and Twitter are the gatekeepers of meaningful freedom of speech. This is problematic, the New York Law School professor Nadine Strossen argues, because these companies often self-regulate in ways that violate the First Amendment.


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