Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

“What I see here is media organizations that have the power to fight back against Trump but aren’t. ... This is a moment in which we need these organizations to hold the powerful to account, hold Trump to account,” said Knight Institute Executive Director Jameel Jaffer on Democracy Now! today. Jaffer’s Democracy Now! appearance follows his guest essay for The New York Times on the recent legal settlements between media organizations and Donald Trump and the threat to press freedom. Watch Jaffer’s Democracy Now! appearance here: https://lnkd.in/gFbcEagZ Read Jaffer’s New York Times essay here: https://lnkd.in/eXBQeSqT

"Some of the nation’s most powerful media institutions have concluded that it is simply not in their commercial interests to inconvenience the president, even if sparing him inconvenience means abandoning their own First Amendment rights." – Jameel Jaffer in The New York Times. https://lnkd.in/eXBQeSqT

📍EVENT: RSVP to join our April symposium examining the risks that advanced #AI systems pose to democratic freedoms, co-hosted with the Institute's Senior AI Advisor Seth Lazar. https://lnkd.in/eX3vjm_B

Trump's proposal to target non-citizens for deportation on the basis of their speech is unconstitutional. See our full statement from Carrie D. below. https://lnkd.in/ekPVakVt

We're excited to announce that our upcoming symposium on #AI and democracy with Seth Lazar (4/10-4/11, at Columbia University & online) will feature papers by a highly accomplished group of authors from a wide range of disciplines. Check them out: https://lnkd.in/dKi8e4ce

Trump’s #TikTok Executive Order aims to consolidate his power over the digital public sphere. Our statement from senior staff attorney Ramya Krishnan below: https://lnkd.in/eTkENN44

"Pardoning Mr. Ragbir sends an important message about the constitutional legitimacy of his advocacy and the illegitimacy of targeting immigrants like him based on their criticism of government policy," says Ramya Krishnan in Gothamist. https://lnkd.in/dFeCfKNB

On today's Supreme Court ruling, Jameel Jaffer says that while #TikTok’s future will ultimately be determined by “politics,” the decision “has weakened the First Amendment.” More in The Washington Post: https://lnkd.in/etRBvKjz

Supreme Court’s #TikTok Ruling Weakens Our Democracy, Knight Institute Says. Full statement at the link: https://lnkd.in/e9JxhJqg