
Lawfare Archive: Nate Persily and Alex Stamos on Securing American Elections
The Lawfare Podcast
The Nuclear Weapon of Media Regulation
FARA is in some ways the nuclear weapon of media regulation. It has to be used in very rare circumstances, but where you have what is obviously a foreign propaganda campaign being used to try to influence election,. Those are the extraordinary circumstances where it needs to be rolled out. We're going to see it here where the Russians have laid out a playbook that lots of people can pick up. One of the things we got to remember is the tech companies, one of the reasons they're asking for legislation from democracies is that they operate everywhere.
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