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The TikTok divest-or-ban order was signed one year ago. The Institute for Rebooting Media spoke with researchers and legal experts to learn about the order’s impact on expression, governance, and the business of social media over the last year. 

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media gathered insights from leading scholars, tech policy experts, and industry professionals on the immediate and long-term consequences of Meta’s recent policy changes.

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media spoke with leading experts in law and digital media studies to weigh in on the U.S.’s divest-or-ban order against TikTok.

Visiting Scholar Lisa Austin argues for a rethinking of digital epistemic rights:

“What the right to information requires is that our digitally-mediated world be created in such a way (through law and policy as well as technological means) that it can be independently knowable and interrogated and that this ability is equitably distributed.”

The event included a day of closed-door working sessions with experts from across the tech field as well as a day of public-facing programming.

Assembly Fellow Ben Grosser shares insights from his analysis of Minus, a finite social media platform he built to demonstrate a different kind of social media.

Research Assistant Dylan Moses crystalizes key insights from the Gonzalez and Taamneh oral arguments.

As part of our RE:COMMITTED newsletter, we checked in with individuals and organizations who filed amicus briefs in Gonzalez v. Google. Legal experts from the Knight First Amendment Institute, Public Knowledge, EPIC, the Cato Institute, and elsewhere weighed in.

RSM Research Assistant and Harvard Law School 2L Dylan Moses argues the importance of Section 230 and explains the legal nuts and bolts of Gonzalez and Taamneh.