Killing the Messenger: The War on Social Media

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Killing the Messenger: The War on Social Media

By Ashutosh Bhagwat
Cambridge University Press October 2025

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9781009547659
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
October 2025
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Paperback
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U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Killing the Messenger is a highly readable survey of the current political and legal wars over social media platforms. The book carefully parses attacks against social media coming from both the political left and right to demonstrate how most of these critiques are overblown or without empirical support. The work analyzes regulations directed at social media in the United States and European Union, including efforts to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It argues that many of these proposals not only raise serious free-speech concerns, but also likely have unintended and perverse public policy consequences.

Killing the Messenger concludes by identifying specific regulations of social media that are justified by serious, demonstrated harms, and that can be implemented without jeopardizing the profoundly democratizing impact social media platforms have had on public discourse.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Social Media as the Mirror of Our Times
1. The Conservative War: Social Media as Censors
2. The Progressive War: Social Media as Enablers
3. The Data War: Social Media Kills Privacy
4. Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers
5. Social Media as the New Gatekeepers
6. Making Social Media Pay for Its Sins (i.e., Repeal Section 230)
7. Privacy, Big Data, and Free Speech
8. Some Ways Forward
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