Lawfare Archive: Nate Persily Asks Whether Democracy Can Survive the Internet
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🗓️ 11 November 2022
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Due to the Veterans Day holiday, our team is taking a break and bringing you a Lawfare Archive episode that we think you’ll find timely given some events from the last few weeks.
From April 2, 2020: On this episode of the Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Quinta Jurecic spoke with Nate Persily, the James B. McClatchy Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Persily is also a member of the Kofi Annan Commission on Democracy and Elections in the Digital Age, which recently released a report on election integrity and the internet for which Nate provided a framing paper. Alongside his work on internet governance, Nate is also an expert on election law and administration. They spoke about the commission report and the challenges the internet may pose for democracy, to what extent the pandemic has flipped that on its head, and, of course, the 2020 presidential election.
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| 1:05.2 | I'm Will Appleton with an episode from the LawFair archive for November 11, 2022. |
| 1:20.4 | For the past few weeks, two stories have made headlines across the country. |
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| 1:31.4 | To put it all into perspective, I thought it would be interesting to revisit a previous |
| 1:35.0 | conversation on the internet's impact on democracy. |
| 1:38.5 | For today's archive episode, I chose an episode from April 2020. |
| 1:43.1 | In the episode, Evelyn Duwack and Quintajera SXS sat down with Nate Persily. |
| 1:47.2 | James B. McClatchy, professor of law at Stanford Law School, to discuss the challenges |
| 1:51.4 | the internet may pose for democracy, the intersection of election integrity in the internet, |
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