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Contents: Acknowledgments - List of Contributors - Opening Statement - Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone - Regulating Harmful Speech on Social Media: The Current Legal Landscape and Policy Proposals - Andrew J. Ceresney, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Courtney M. Dankworth, and David A. O'Neil - Part OneAn Overview of the Problem - 1. Social Media and First Amendment Fault Lines - David A. Strauss - 2. A Deliberate Leap in the Opposite Direction: The Need to Rethink Free Speech - Larry Kramer - 3. The Disinformation Dilemma - Emily Bazelon - 4. A Framework for Regulating Falsehoods - Cass R. Sunstein - Part TwoReforming Section 230 - 5. The Free Speech Industry - Mary Anne Franks - 6. The Golden Era of Free Speech - Erwin Chemerinsky and Alex Chemerinsky - 7. Section 230 Reforms - Sheldon Whitehouse - Part ThreeContent Moderation and the Problem of Algorithms - 8. Algorithms, Affordances, and Agency - Renée DiResta - 9. The Siren Call of Content Moderation Formalism - Evelyn Douek - 10. Free Speech on Public Platforms - Jamal Greene - 11. The Limits of Antidiscrimination Law in the Digital Public Sphere - Genevieve Lakier - 12. Platform Power, Online Speech, and the Search for New Constitutional Categories - Nathaniel Persily - 13. Strategy and Structure: Understanding Online Disinformation and How Commitments to "Free Speech" Complicate Mitigation Approaches - Kate Starbird - Part FourOther Possible Reforms - 14. To Reform Social Media, Reform Informational Capitalism - Jack M. Balkin - 15. Follow the Money, Back to Front - Yochai Benkler - 16. The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants - Lawrence Lessig - 17. Social Media, Distrust, and Regulation: A Conversation - Newton N. Minow, Nell Minow, Martha Minow, and Mary Minow - 18. Profit Over People: How to Make Big Tech Work for Americans - Amy Klobuchar - Report of the Commission - Katherine Adams, Jelani Cobb, Martin Baron, Russ Feingold, Lee C. Bollinger, Christina Paxson, Hillary Clinton, and Geoffrey R. Stone - Concluding Statement - Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone - Notes - Index

Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, together with an eminent collection of contributors, explore the various dimensions of the problems of "bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violence-on the internet, and in particular speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, in the American context and through the lens of the First Amendment. Bollinger and Stone argue that in determining a path forward, it is important to remember that the last time American society encountered major new communications technology-television and radio-the government established a federal agency to provide oversight and to issue regulations to protect and promote 'the public interest.' Featuring a variety of perspectives from some of America's leading experts on this hotly contested issue, this volume offers new insights and provides recommendations for the future of free speech in the social media era.