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Facebook Can Ban Whomever It Wants. Just Ask Trump's Lawyers
"The complicating factor for the President in this case is that, well, he is the President. Not only that, but he uses his account to conduct government bu…
Danielle Citron
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One year after Zuckerberg’s testimony about violent content on Facebook, has anything changed?
"“I don’t think it’s an impossible task. It’s a hard task, and it depends on the defaults we want to live with,” said Danielle Citron, a University of Mary…
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Legal Scholars Dive into Implications of Deep Fakes
"“Imagine the night before an IPO, a deep fake video of the CEO comes out of the CEO soliciting a child prostitute or doing drugs,” University of Maryland…
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Most Sextortion Victims Aren’t Billionaires
"“Law is pretty much a blunt instrument here,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at University of Maryland who wrote the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace…
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Kamala Harris’ Crusade Against ‘Revenge Porn’
"“She was in the heart of Silicon Valley and she didn’t take no nonsense,” says Danielle Citron, the law professor. “I think her preference is, ‘It’s good…
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Lawmakers plunge into "deepfake" war
"Lawmakers don't get many chances to get this right, says Citron. "You gotta write this correctly." One or two over-broad or ineffective bill…
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Fake-porn videos are being weaponized to harass and humiliate women: ‘Everybody is a potential target’
"Danielle Citron, a University of Maryland law professor who has studied ways to combat online abuse, says the country is in desperate need of a more compr…
Deepfakes and the New Disinformation War
By Robert Chesney and Danielle Citron A picture may be worth a thousand words, but there is nothing that persuades quite like an audio or video recording of an…
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Sending Lewd Nudes to Strangers Could Mean a Year in Jail
"Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland and the author of a book on hate crimes in cyberspace, said that clarification could be…
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You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes to die
"When Danielle Citron, a professor of law at the University of Maryland, first became aware of the fake porn movies, she was initially struck by how viscer…
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Online hate is spreading, and Internet platforms can’t stop it
"“The problem with broad and vague definitions is that it’s subject to including things like political speech and dissent, because one person’s view of wha…
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Artificial intelligence conference explores darkside of technology with ‘threat to democracy’ conference
"The keynote speaker was Danielle Citron, Morton and Sophia Macht Professor of Law at the University of Maryland’s Francis King Carey School of Law. Citron…