WASHINGTON — A request by the Justice Department to ask people about their citizenship status in the 2020 census is stirring a broad backlash from census experts and others who say the move could wreck chances for an accurateSource: Critics Say Questions About Citizenship Could Wreck Chances for an Accurate Census...

The First Amendment makes it very difficult to regulate "fake news," and it raises dangers that those who would regulate would do so not to stop the spread of misinformation but to protect their own political position. I have a paper coming out in the First Amendment Law Review on this very question, including the issue of foreign interference: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3017598 We may...

Fake news evolved from seedy internet sideshow to serious electoral threat so quickly that behavioral scientists had little time to answer basic questions about it, like who was reading what, how much real news they also consumed and whether targeted fact-checking efforts ever hit a target.Source: ‘Fake News’: Wide Reach but Little Impact, Study Suggests...

WASHINGTON — Major cases await the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court when they return to the bench in January, including a test of how states purge their databases of unqualified voters and a challenge likely to deal a serious blow to the nation's public sector unions.Source: Major cases on voter purging, union power await Supreme Court in 2018...