Nathaniel Persily

Professor at Stanford Law

Nate Persily is a professor at Stanford Law School and the director of the Stanford Project on Democracy and the Internet. His scholarship and legal practice focus on American election law, which addresses issues such as voting rights, political parties, campaign finance, redistricting, and election administration. Persily’s current work, for which he has been honored as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, examines the impact of changing technology on political communication, campaigns, and election administration.

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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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