I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.

The National Constitution Center is a nonpartisan nonprofit chartered by Congress to increase

awareness and understanding of the Constitution among the

American people. And today we discuss one of the most urgent questions

involving free speech of our time, namely does Facebook threaten democratic norms?

This week Mark Zuckerberg faced congressional hearings about Facebook privacy breaches, and in the course of a wide-ranging discussion

with Congress the Facebook CEO addressed questions about to what degree

Facebook itself is operating as the main free speech platform in American democracy.

Joining us to discuss whether and how Facebook should be regulated and how to address the challenges of free speech online are two of

America's leading scholars of Facebook election law, First Amendment law, and

technology, not law.

Nate personally is James B McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School

and recently served as Research Director for the U.S. Presidential Commission

on Election Administration.

He's co-author of the Law and Democracy

Casebook and is heading up a new initiative assembling

scholars to address the question of free speech online.

Kate Klonic is a PhD candidate in law and resident fellow at the Information Society

Project at Yale.

She studies emerging conflicts in law and technology and is the author of a

superb forthcoming article in the Harvard Law Review, the new governors, the people

rules and processes governing online speech.

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