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Social-Media Companies ‘Threaten Democracy’

Aug 27, 2019 | 71 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.


This video is part of The Speech Wars, a project of The Atlantic, and is supported by the Charles Koch Foundation, the Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press, and the Fetzer Institute.”

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