Moderation’s Excess

Hannah Bloch-Wehba, Automation in Moderation, Cornell Int’l L. J. (forthcoming), available at SSRN.

Annemarie Bridy

In 2012, Twitter executive Tony Wang proudly described his company as “the free-speech wing of the free-speech party.”1 Seven years later, The New Yorker’s Andrew Marantz declaimed in an op-ed for The New York Times that “free speech is killing us.”2 The intervening years saw a tidal shift in public attitudes toward Twitter and the world’s other major social media services—most notably Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. […]