A way to protect free speech on line while fighting misinformation and disinformation lets get to the bottom line. A lot can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on it shoes the saying might be a few centuries old but it certainly rings true today anyone anywhere can publish anything and if it catches on theres no stopping what it can do either for good or for evil so how can people be protected from the nefarious manipulation of information and the disrupt the promotion of false hoods by government at risk and Jennifer Brody who has worked on programs combat online dissent from asian and works at the Digital Rights group access now thank you all for joining us today where you have some fun with this one i think so let me just start with with you melissa censorship or free speech how do we draw that line between what we see is the you know my right to say what i want to do and the question of basically becoming the source of conspiracy theories and false is i thin
Court. Not always an edifying experience. It was a mean and ugly fight at times we know how it turned out. Judge kavanaugh, nowjustice kavanaugh, was narrowly confirmed on a largely partyline vote. But it was a memorable fight, so why did you two choose to retell this story in a booklength form . Guest carrie and i were both involved in the confirmation battle, working on the confirmation, covering it as journalists. We knew that we had a good story here, we knew that we had good access, and we wanted to lay it down, get the record down. And so we interviewed more than 100 people including the president and various other people at the white house, Supreme Court justices, people in the senate, and we are so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year. And when youre in the chaos of it in the moment, its worth reflecting on after the dust has settled about lessons to learn from it, what were some of the things that happened behind the scenes, and were really
Court. It is not always an edifying experience but a mean and ugly fight at times and we know how it turned out, judge kavanaugh now Justice Kavanaugh was narrowly confirmed on a largely partyline vote. It was a memorable site so why did you to choose to retell this story in book links for . Guest we were both involved in the kavanaugh confirmation battle. She was working on the confirmation and covering it as a journalist. We knew we had a good story here and knew that we had good access and we wanted to lay it down and get the record down and so we interviewed more than 100 people, including the president and various other people and several Supreme Court justices people in the senate and we are so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year and in the chaos of it and in the moment it is worth reflecting on after the dust settled about lessons to learn from it and what were the things that happened behind the scenes and were glad we got to do it. Guest ab
Last summer washington saw a particular fierce fight over the nomination with Brett Kavanaugh to succeed Justice Anthony kennedy on the Supreme Court it was mean and ugly at times and we know how it turned out as he was narrowly confirmed along the partyline vote. But it was a memorable fight so why did you two decide to kill the story quick. We were both involved in the battle we knew we had a good story and we had good access and we wanted to lay it down for the record so we interviewed more than 100 people at the white house and Supreme Court justices and those in the senate we are so glad that we did because in the moment reflecting on those lessons to learn what happened behind the scenes. And working to replay those events with those allegations of a very similar pattern so what we have seen since the confirmation so they believe thomas over hill but that constant drumbeat to rewrite the narrative it is important to make sure the facts are up there to get part of revisionist hist
Kavanaugh was narrowly confirm on a largely part line vote. But it was a memorable fight, so why did you two choose to retell this story and n book lange form . Carrie and i were both involved in the kavanaugh confirmation battles, we knew that we had a good story here. We knew that we had good access, and we wanted to lay it down, get the record down, and so we interviewed more than 100 people, including the president , and various other people at the white house, self Supreme Court justices, people in the senate, and we are so glad we did because this was something that gripped the nation last year, and when youre in the chaos of it in the moment, its worth reflecting of after the dust settled about lessons to learn, some things that happened behind the scene busy were glad we got to do it. I think for me in particular, having clerked for Justice Thomas, i saw the real replay of many of the events from the types of attacks going on before the confirmation got crazy to the allegations