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no bull and the aftermath.

At the end of the day, and so here's the caveat, the caveat is that as a part of their

rules, all of the companies over the last five years have evolved the way they think about

something like hate speech.

So whereas, you know, early in their lives, the companies pretty much didn't take down

much of anything, even kind of rancid hateful comment, they've evolved their rules now,

so that to be honest, they look a little bit more like human rights standards and European

Law than they look like First Amendment Law.

And this has actually created a problem in the United States because when they come

up with these rules around hate speech and actually apply them, you actually get conservatives

in the United States saying there's some bias against conservatives, whereas in Europe,

that's exactly what they're pushing for is more action against that kind of content.

I'm Quinta Geresec and this is the LawFair podcast December 5th, 2019.

Today we're bringing you a new episode from our Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation

in the run up to the 2020 election.

This week, Evelyn Duacan, I spoke to David Kay, the United Nations special rapporteur

on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.

He's argued that social media companies should adopt international human rights law as

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