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Robert Chesney, Evelyn Douek, Quinta Jurecic, Jacob Schulz, Elliot Stzer and Tia Sewell released Lawfare’s new sub-blog devoted to tracking the activity of the Facebook Oversight Board. Evelyn Douek examined Facebook Oversight Board’s ambitions in light of its first spree of cases. Jacob Schulz detailed the FOB’s first five decisions.

Jen Patja Howell shared an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, in which Lawfare’s Quinta Jurecic, Evelyn Douek and Jacob Schulz discussed the FOB's first decisions:

Jacob Mchangama <a /articles>examined</a> the strict timelines for legally mandated content moderation and their effects on tech companies’ decisions. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> this week’s edition of the Lawfare Podcast’s "Arbiters of Truth" series, featuring Kate Klonick and Quinta Jurecic’s conversation with Joan Donovan, a research director at the Harvard Kennedy School, about disinformation and social movements: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17721137/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Daniel Byman and Benjamin Wittes <a /articles>discussed</a> nine questions that must be answered by a Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection commission. Quinta Jurecic <a /articles>asked</a> why it has taken four years for the Justice Department to file charges against an internet disinformation peddler who was active in 2016? Philip Bobbitt <a /articles>argued</a> against a late Senate impeachment trial. Jonathan Shaub <a /articles>examined</a> whether a former president can invoke executive privilege in an impeachment trial. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast featuring Jack Goldsmith’s interview with Michael McConnell, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, about the interpretation of presidential power using Article II of the Constitution: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17689715/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Nathaniel Persily and Charles Stewart III <a /articles>recommended</a> a 12-step program to improve the American election administration and promote voter confidence. Yevgeny Vindman <a /articles>analyzed</a> the criteria for a cyberattack to be considered an act of war in light of the SolarWinds attack. Stewart Baker <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, which covered the final cyber-related news of the Trump administration: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17697308/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Alvaro Marañon <a /articles>shared</a> an update on international law enforcement efforts against NetWalker and Emotet, including unsealed indictments against Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins, who allegedly obtained $27.6 million from Netwalker attacks. Jordan Schneider <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of ChinaTalk, featuring a discussion with Rob Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, about U.S. industrial policy: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17645045/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/000000/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Lester Munson <a /articles>shared</a> this week’s episode of Fault Lines, entitled “The Intellectual Underpinnings of Biden’s Foreign Policy”: <iframe width="100%" src="https://player.acast.com/faultlines/episodes/episode-62" height="110px" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay"/> Agneska Bloch and Israa Saber <a /articles>analyzed</a> the impact of energy concerns, geopolitical tensions and Turkish domestic factors on Eastern Mediterranean conflict. Emma Svoboda <a /articles>discussed</a> the recent elections in Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. Almudena Azcárate Ortega <a /articles>discussed</a> the contradiction of international diplomatic efforts to prevent a space arms race and continual tests of counter space technology. Sam Cohen and Steve Floyd <a /articles>analyzed</a> the impact of illegal, unreported and unregistered (IUU) fishing on the risk of conflict at sea. Michael Sinclair <a /articles>argued</a> that tackling illegal fishing is a national security imperative. Brian Frazelle <a /articles>argued</a> that the unlawfulness of the appointments of both Kevin McAleenan and Chad Wolf, former acting secretaries of homeland security, render the last two years of policymaking illegal. Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, which includes audio from last week’s confirmation hearings of four core national security nominees: Avril Haines, Alejandro Mayorkas, Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17671178/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Tia Sewell <a /articles>shared</a> the livestream of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be the U.N. ambassador. Jen Patja Howell <a /articles>shared</a> an episode of the Lawfare Podcast, featuring David Kris’s discussion with David Hatch, senior historian at the U.S. National Security Agency, about Project VENONA: <iframe width="100%" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/17702948/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/backward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/87A93A/" scrolling="no" height="90"/> Bryce Klehm <a /articles>shared</a> the D.C. Circuit Court’s decision to dismiss Bilal Abdul Kareem’s suit against Gina Haspel, former director of the CIA, for lack of standing. Klehm and Rohini Kurup <a /articles>posted</a> Lawfare’s summer internship announcement. And Klehm <a /articles>shared</a> this week’s Lawfare Live, in which Nate Persily and Charles Stewart joined Benjamin Wittes to answer questions about their recent <a /articles>article</a>: <iframe width="100%" webkitallowfullscreen="true" style="border: 1px solid #EEE;border-radius:3px" src="https://www.crowdcast.io/e/lessons-from-the-2020-2?navlinks=false&embed=true" mozallowfullscreen="true" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" height="800" frameborder="0" allowtransparency="true" allowfullscreen="true" allow="microphone; camera;"/><a style="color: #aaa; font-family: 'Helvetica', 'Arial', sans-serif;text-decoration: none;display: block;text-align: center;font-size: 13px;padding: 5px 0" ng-href="https://www.crowdcast.io/?utm_source=embed&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=embed">powered by Crowdcast</a>And that was the week that was.

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Victoria Gallegos is a senior at the University of Mississippi, studying international studies and Spanish. She is an intern at Lawfare.

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