Corynne McSherry

Legal Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation

Corynne McSherry is the legal director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property, open access, and free speech issues. Her policy work includes leading EFF’s effort to fix copyright (including the successful effort to shut down the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA), promote net neutrality, and promote best practices for online expression. McSherry comments regularly on digital rights issues and has been quoted in a variety of outlets, including NPR, CBS News, Fox News, the New York Times, Billboard, the Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone. Prior to joining EFF, McSherry was a civil litigator at the law firm of Bingham McCutchen LLP.

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Constitutional Free Speech Principles Can Save Social Media Companies from Themselves

With David French, Corynne McSherry, Nathaniel Persily, Marietje Schaake
March 4, 2019

How should the world’s largest social media companies respond to a pernicious online climate, including hate speech and false content posted by users? For some, the answer is clear: take the fake and offensive content down. But for others, censorship – even by a private company – is dangerous in a time when digital platforms have become the new public square and many Americans cite Facebook and Twitter as their primary news sources. Rather than embracing European hate speech laws or developing platform-specific community standards that…

Constitutional Free Speech Principles Can Save Social Media Companies from Themselves

With David French, Corynne McSherry, Nathaniel Persily, Marietje Schaake
March 4, 2019

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