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EPIC @epic.org · 01/07/2026

Last night, NJ passed the New Jersey Kids Code Act, protecting kids online by regulating the design of online products! Many of the Act’s key components came from EPIC’s model AADC bill. All that's left now is Gov. Sherrill’s signature. Read more here: epic.org/epic-applaud...

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PRESS RELEASE: EPIC Applauds Passage of the New Jersey Kids Code Act

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Meta's attorney in the MA addictive design case told the Supreme Judicial Court that @epic.org was wrong about how the 9th Circuit interprets Section 230. But it's Meta who is wrong. & it should know better—just last year, the 9th rejected Meta's plea that it adopt the test Meta says it adopted.

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EPIC @epic.org · 04/12/2025

Tomorrow, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will hear oral arguments on whether the Commonwealth can continue to pursue its case against Meta. Meta is trying to block the case by expanding Section 230 into a broad legal protection, arguing it shouldn’t face scrutiny for its platform design.

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

This is such brazen censorship. It’s all right there in the open, a quintessential jawboning case, the lawsuit writes itself.

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Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

We partnered with these amazing legal, privacy & tech accountability experts on an amicus brief for a case about how Meta’s design choices allegedly harmed kids. At Cybersecurity for Democracy, we conduct scientific research to show how these systems work & what accountability can look like. More 👇🏼

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Yaël Eisenstat @yaeleisenstat.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Thanks to @epic.org for leading the way, to @comminsense.bsky.social and TJLP for this collaboration, and the below legal scholars, who signed on in support. What a team! cc: @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social & @meganiorio.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mega...

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

EPIC collaborated w/ @commonsensemedia.bsky.social, Cybersecurity for Democracy (@yaeleisenstat.bsky.social @whiskeyocelot.bsky.social) & Tech Justice Law Project on a brief telling the Ninth Circuit to deny Meta Section 230 protections for its allegedly addictive design. 11 legal scholars joined!

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EPIC @epic.org · 27/06/2025

SCOTUS's decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton today properly leaves legislatures with room to provide kids with heightened protections online but does not go far enough in incentivizing legislatures to prescribe privacy-protective age assurance methods. epic.org/supreme-cour...

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Supreme Court Rules that Government Can Impose Age Verification Requirements on Porn Sites Subject Only to Limited Privacy Safeguards

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

The California Age-Appropriate Design Code case is back in the 9th Circuit. Did NetChoice remedy the flaws the Ninth Circuit ID'ed the first time around? Nope. But the district court granted a full injunction anyway—endorsing yet another bad legal theory that endangers long-established privacy laws

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EPIC @epic.org · 12/06/2025

BIG NEWS! This afternoon, Governor Phil Scott signed the Vermont Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC) into law! governor.vermont.gov/press-releas...

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Action Taken by Governor Phil Scott on Legislation - June 12, 2025 | Office of Governor Phil Scott

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Also super telling that the Searchlight guy thinks that angering a key Dem constituency is a good thing. My guy you sound like the absolute worst political strategist and all you are going to do is help Dems lose harder.

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EPIC @epic.org · 02/04/2025

⚠️ NetChoice v. Bonta: An oral argument explainer 🧵 EPIC Senior Counsel Megan Iorio (@meganiorio.bsky.social) and EPIC Counsel Tom McBrien (@tommcbrien.bsky.social) broke down key areas of argument ahead of today’s Ninth Circuit hearing of NetChoice v. Bonta: epic.org/ninth-circui...

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Ninth Circuit oral argument in NetChoice's challenge to CA's addictive feed law is coming up in a few minutes. We @epic.org put together a quick preview of the argument. epic.org/ninth-circui...

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Ninth Circuit To Hear Oral Argument in Case About Whether Algorithms Directed to Induce Habit-Forming Behavior Are Protected Speech

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

All of that to say he didn’t like what she said in her op-ed so he sent goons to disappear her off the street.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 26/03/2025

A Tufts University student has been kidnapped for ICE because a year ago, she co-authored this op-ed which criticizes Israel, calls for the adoption of non-binding faculty senate resolutions, and celebrates the end of apartheid in South Africa www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024...

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Op-ed: Try again, President Kumar: Renewing calls for Tufts to adopt March 4 TCU Senate resolutions - The Tufts Daily

The independent student newspaper of Tufts University

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Thanks Prem for amplifying! Please sign onto this Columbia boycott (with a carve out for departments and people targeted). We cannot proceed with business as usual. We cannot give colloquia on a campus that's colluding with authoritarians dragging their students off campus.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

The "Is it a constitutional crisis yet?!" discussion is so absurd: Of course you can construct increasingly esoteric definitions for why this current moment doesn't meet your exact criteria yet. But meanwhile, this is where we are: Masked agents of the states abducting people for writing op-eds.

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

In today’s one-two punch, the @aaup.bsky.social National alongside MESA & 3 of our chapters also sued the Trump administration over their unconstitutional ideological-deportation policies that have chilled speech & dissent on campuses nationwide. www.aaup.org/news/aaup-al...

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AAUP, Allies Sue over Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport Students and Faculty for Lawful Speech

The national AAUP; chapters at Harvard, Rutgers, and NYU; and the Middle East Studies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests,...

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

My analysis of the decision issued yesterday in the CA Age-Appropriate Design Code case. Short of it is that the First Amendment analysis is wrong and unnecessary and the judge shouldn’t have opined on the constitutional questions at all b/c the case could have been decided on severability.

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Fuck yeah Georgetown Law, this is how you stand up to threats from an authoritarian regime. As an alumna, I knew Martin has picked a fight with the wrong school. GULC is deeply committed to the critical study of law & supports students pursuing public interest in ways other top schools don’t.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

With his permission, I'm sharing Dean Treanor's response to Ed Martin's letter:

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

When will Democrats learn you can’t out-Republican the Republicans but you can deploy populism to address the actual problems we’re facing. Trump is dismantling democracy, he is screwing with your social security, he is shredding the freedom to speak, and he’s making every damn one of us less safe.

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EPIC @epic.org · 11/02/2025

🚨 EPIC, @democracyforward.bsky.social, and a federal worker filed suit today against DOGE over its illegal seizure of personnel records and payment system data—actions which constitute the largest data breach in American history. 🧵 Read our full complaint here: epic.org/wp-content/u...

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

The Ninth Circuit has enjoined California's law regulating addictive feeds pending appeal. No opinion attached. Merits briefing in the appeal will proceed on an expedited schedule (completed by mid-to-late March) and hopefully we won't have to wait too long for the Ninth Circuit to rule thereafter.

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Of all the blatantly unconstitutional things Trump is up to this is up at the top of the list. Yet because it’s about people speaking in support of Palestinian human rights what do you want to bet it doesn’t get the attention that other Trump actions have.

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

If you're looking for a preview of this morning's argument in SCOTUS, here you go.

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

If the New York Times announced it was changing its entire editorial strategy to appease the incoming president it would signal the death of independent editorial discretion. When a tech oligarch does it, it somehow bolsters free expression? www.nytimes.com/2025/01/07/b...

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Meta’s move effectively puts an end to its longstanding fact-checking program. Here’s the latest.

The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump and his conservative allies.

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Check out this amicus! The PA Supreme Court has an opportunity to make online contracting much more prosocial by requiring informed consent. Added bonus, tech companies will be incentivized to limit contract terms to limit friction, so less click wrapped bullshit.

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Here's NetChoice's motion for an injunction pending appeal in the Ninth Circuit in the SB 976 (addictive feeds) case. In each successive motion, NetChoice is making little tweaks to their argument that the addictive feeds provision regulates expression. epic.org/wp-content/u...

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Well, it was a good two days—district court places California’s addictive feed law on hold through Feb 2 pending appellate proceedings.

F or these reasons, the Court finds that an injunction pending appeal is appropriate to allow the opportunity for appellate review of theseweighty issues before the law goes into effect. However, Defendant also has a countervailing interest in seeing a duly enacted law(at least, the parts of which this Court has already concluded are likely constitutional)go into effect. Therefore, the Court concludes that an injunction pending appeal is only appropriate to the extent it allows the Ninth Circuit time toconsider whether to grant its own injunction pending appeal. Accordingly, the CourtGRANTSIN PART NetChoice’s motion. Defendant is ENJOINEDfrom enforcing the entirety of SB 976 for thirty (30) days until February 1, 2025 at 11:59 p.m. PT. At that time, if the Ninth Circuit has not extended this injunction pending appeal or issued its own, this injunction shall dissolve and the more limited injunction issued in the Court’s preliminary injunction order (ECF No. 39) shall take effect

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

NetChoice just moved for an injunction pending appeal in the SB 976 (addictive feeds) case. They're big mad that the court supposedly disregarded binding SCOTUS precedent that addictive feeds are expressive (Moody v. NetChoice). They are wrong & here's why 🧵 (Motion here: epic.org/wp-content/u...)

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

California's regulation of addictive feeds will go into effect tomorrow, thanks to Judge Davila's decision denying in part NetChoice's request to enjoin SB 976. The restrictions on notifications & the compelled disclosure provisions were put on hold. More at link & below. epic.org/judge-allows...

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Judge Allows California Regulation of Addictive Feeds to Go Into Effect

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EPIC @epic.org · 28/12/2024

We have an exciting opportunity for you to have a huge impact on EPIC’s work to defend privacy, human rights, and democracy – generous donors have stepped up to TRIPLE your end-of-year gift! That means that if you give $100, you are generating $300 of much-needed support for EPIC! ➡️ epic.org/donate

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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 21/11/2024

BREAKING: ❤️Fight Director @evangreer.bsky.social confronts Rep Mace (R-SC) on her anti-trans bigotry at Project Liberty Summit. Statement here: www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2024-11...

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Megan Iorio @meganiorio.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Why does Carr think Section 230 gives the FCC authority to investigate whether social media companies are moderating content in good faith??? Section 230 is a defense to claims, it's not an affirmative duty to moderate content in good faith. nypost.com/2024/11/18/b...

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Incoming FCC chair Brendan Carr vows to ‘dismantle’ Big Tech’s ‘censorship cartel’

Brendan Carr, the incoming Federal Communications Commission Chairman, has demanded answers from Big Tech firms about their involvement in what he described as an “censorship cartel” to suppress sp…

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