Selena Larson on e-crime matching nation state hackers; Disinfo before the Supreme Court
Safe Mode Podcast
Supreme Court Decision on Government-Social Media Interactions
The chapter explores a recent Supreme Court ruling on how the federal government engages with social media platforms, focusing on defining friendly conversations versus coercion and the sharing of information to combat foreign influence operations and misinformation. It discusses the legal case Murphy v. Missouri, highlighting the limitations and confusion following the court's decision, which emphasized the need to prove a credible future risk of censorship by social media companies due to government actions. The chapter also addresses the hesitancy of federal agencies and social media companies to take aggressive actions amidst the political climate, emphasizing uncertainties in future government-social media interactions on disinformation.
