Disinformation on Steroids
Introduction Disinformation and distrust online are set to take a turn for the worse. Rapid advances in deep-learning algorithms to synthesize video and audio…
Danielle Citron
Affiliate Scholar
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Just Don’t Call It Privacy
"California recently passed a new privacy law that would give Californians some power over the data companies’ hold on them. Industry groups hope to defang…
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Ariana Grande, Mac Miller, and Why We Blame Women for Male Substance Abuse
""It's deeply unsurprising to see a cyber mob descend. There’s a very quick snowballing that happens, where it’s maybe one or two people, then all…
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The Cybersecurity 202: Lawmakers want intelligence chiefs to help counter threat from doctored videos
"Those types of efforts could increase if the intelligence community agrees to weigh in on deepfakes, said Danielle Citron, a privacy law expert at the Uni…
Platform Justice: Content Moderation at an Inflection Point
On Thursday, Sept. 6, Twitter permanently banned the right-wing provocateur Alex Jones and his conspiracy theorist website Infowars from its platform. This was…
Platform Justice
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD .PDF The role of dominant content platforms like Facebook and Twitter in facilitating Russian election interference in the 2016 US presi…
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The Impossible Job: Inside Facebook’s Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People
"Danielle Citron, author of Hate Crimes in Cyberspace and a professor at the University of Maryland’s law school, told Motherboard that Facebook’s “oh shit…
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The Man Who Sued His Trolls
"Part of the problem is the way the laws are written. The federal government and most states have enacted anti-cyberstalking statutes that bar repeated use…
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Twitter Target of Accused Capital Gazette Gunman Says Gaps in Maryland Law Allowed Threats to Persist
"Giving police more flexibility to respond to allegations of threats will likely raise concerns over First Amendment rights, said Danielle Citron, a law pr…
Deep Fakes: A Looming Challenge for Privacy, Democracy, and National Security
Robert Chesney University of Texas School of Law Danielle Keats Citron University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law; Yale University - Yale Infor…
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Lawmakers Don't Grasp the Sacred Tech Law They Want to Gut
"Nowhere in the statute does it say that tech companies are prohibited from making editorial decisions if they want Section 230 protections. Quite the oppo…
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Amazon Is Used to Promote White Supremacist Merchandise and Views, Report Says
"But the debate has ramped up in recent years with an emboldening of white supremacist and anti-Semitic groups and pressure from countries in Europe to get…