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The New York City Bar Presents Constitution Day: Social Media Regulation and the First Amendment
September 17 (Tuesday), 6:00 PM-8:00 PM
New York, NY
Description
Social media platforms have transformed the ways in which Americans get their news, form and sustain relationships, participate in their communities, and interact with representatives and candidates for office. Some have argued that the platforms have also distorted our national discourse by amplifying sensationalist content or ushered in a new era of government censorship by serving as attractive targets for official pressure campaigns. These concerns underlie a blockbuster set of cases before the Supreme Court this term that provide guidance on the First Amendment frameworks that apply to governmental efforts to regulate the platforms and also on the procedural requirements that litigants who wish to challenge these efforts will have to satisfy. This panel will discuss those cases and the future of platform regulation.
