Cybersecurity & Tech

Lawfare Live: Meta To End Fact-Checking Program

Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, Renee DiResta, Daphne Keller, Dave Willner, Kate Klonick
Tuesday, January 7, 2025, 10:57 AM
Join the Lawfare team for a discussion this evening.

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Today at 5:30 pm ET, Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes will talk to Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic, Associate Research Professor at Georgetown University Renee DiResta, Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford Cyber Policy Center Daphne Keller, Chief Policy Officer at Zentropi Dave Willner, and Associate Professor of Law at St. John's University Law School Kate Klonick about Meta’s decision to end its fact-checking program.

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Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.
Quinta Jurecic is a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution and a senior editor at Lawfare. She previously served as Lawfare's managing editor and as an editorial writer for the Washington Post.
Renée DiResta is the technical research manager at the Stanford Internet Observatory, a cross-disciplinary program of research, teaching, and policy engagement for the study of abuse in current information technologies. Her work examines the spread of narratives across social and media networks; how distinct actor types leverage the information ecosystem to exert influence; and how policy, education, and design responses can be used to mitigate manipulation.
Daphne Keller directs the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Her work, including academic, policy, and popular press writing, focuses on platform regulation and Internet users' rights in the U.S., EU, and around the world. She was previously Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had responsibility for the company’s web search products. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, Brown University, and Head Start.
Dave Willner is the Head of Trust and Safety at OpenAI, the company that produces ChatGPT.
Kate Klonick is an Assistant Professor at Law at St. John's University Law School, an Affiliate Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and Future Tense Fellow at New America. Her research and writing looks at networked technologies' effect on the areas of social norm enforcement, freedom of expression, and private online governance. Her work on these topics has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Maryland Law Review, New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Slate, The Guardian and numerous other publications.

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