Kate Klonick
@klonick.bsky.social
Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
Not me the week of Thanksgiving waiting to pick up a one-way rental from Hertz 👀
November 24, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Not me the week of Thanksgiving waiting to pick up a one-way rental from Hertz 👀
Sometimes I wake up and wonder what Christopher Hitchens would have to say about all this.
November 24, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Sometimes I wake up and wonder what Christopher Hitchens would have to say about all this.
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The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
November 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The company essentially turned a dial that made ChatGPT more appealing and made people use it more, but sent some of them into delusional spirals.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
OpenAI has since made the chatbot safer, but that comes with a tradeoff: less usage.
This.
The biggest source for any DSA investigation into addictive design features might not be platforms' risk assessments, but the more than 6 million documents that are part of the pretrial discovery process in the US www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
‘Massive Legal Siege’ Against Social Media Companies Looms
Thousands of plaintiffs’ complaints, millions of pages of internal documents and transcripts of countless hours of depositions are about to land in US courtrooms, threatening the future of the biggest...
www.bloomberg.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This.
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NEW: I did a very deep dive into one month's worth of Elon Musk's posts on X so I could understand the breadth and depth of what he is posting about these days. In a word: fringe. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... 🧵
A month of Elon Musk on X: Conspiracy theories, fringe politics and self-promotion
An NBC News analysis of one month of Musk’s social media posts shows what’s been on his mind, including a broad cross-section of fringe political topics.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
NEW: I did a very deep dive into one month's worth of Elon Musk's posts on X so I could understand the breadth and depth of what he is posting about these days. In a word: fringe. www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu... 🧵
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people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
November 22, 2025 at 3:04 PM
people are reading "catch-and-kill" in the journalistic sense but she was probably just finding raccoons for him to eat
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D639,006 - issued in 2011 for a design for a "bamboo open trash can." #DesignPatents
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
D639,006 - issued in 2011 for a design for a "bamboo open trash can." #DesignPatents
Actually laughed out loud
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Actually laughed out loud
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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
November 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
... listen to Steve Wozniak.
Anna. Do they not have outlets in the café car.
What? Y’all thought I was joking about this?
November 22, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Anna. Do they not have outlets in the café car.
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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CAN WE JUST HAVE A DULL QUIET WEEK FOR ONCE?
every week just gets weirder tbh
November 22, 2025 at 1:12 AM
CAN WE JUST HAVE A DULL QUIET WEEK FOR ONCE?
Ah yes, who could forget the famous Labours of Hercules which involved trying to deport a construction worker and father of three to a Ugandan prison.
November 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Ah yes, who could forget the famous Labours of Hercules which involved trying to deport a construction worker and father of three to a Ugandan prison.
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From the Department of Tragic Irony:
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
Nuremberg - Explore the Nuremberg Trials!
The Harvard Law School Library's Nuremberg Trials Project is an open-access initiative to create and present digitized images and full-text versions of the Library's Nuremberg Trials documents,…
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
November 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
From the Department of Tragic Irony:
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
On the day the Harvard Law School releases a digital archive of the Nuremberg Trials, the President threatens the lives of members of Congress who utter its most basic truth: That everyone, especially soldiers, must follow the law.
nuremberg.law.harvard.edu
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The region's startup market is hungry for its first trillion-dollar startup, and in many ways has set itself up to reach that goal.
The European startup market is ready for the limelight | TechCrunch
The region's startup market is hungry for its first trillion-dollar startup, and in many ways has set itself up to reach that goal.
techcrunch.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The region's startup market is hungry for its first trillion-dollar startup, and in many ways has set itself up to reach that goal.
Strong Prince John vibes
November 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Strong Prince John vibes
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Perhaps there's a version of the news distortion doctrine that's consistent with the First Amendment, but the version of it that Carr is wielding here is not going to survive constitutional scrutiny.
Trump's censor in chief at the FCC, Brendan Carr, just sent a letter to the heads of BBC, NPR and PBS informing them he's launching a "news distortion" probe into the BBC's editing of a documentary on Trump's Jan. 6 activities.
Here it is:
Here it is:
November 19, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Perhaps there's a version of the news distortion doctrine that's consistent with the First Amendment, but the version of it that Carr is wielding here is not going to survive constitutional scrutiny.
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So here’s the scoop: Prosecutors have charged four individuals — two Americans and two Chinese nationals with secretly smuggling hundreds of Nvidia chips and ten HP supercomputers from the US to China.
November 20, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So here’s the scoop: Prosecutors have charged four individuals — two Americans and two Chinese nationals with secretly smuggling hundreds of Nvidia chips and ten HP supercomputers from the US to China.
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Truly mind-blowing levels of hypocrisy from this admin on using government strong arming to threaten social media companies into censoring
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
November 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Truly mind-blowing levels of hypocrisy from this admin on using government strong arming to threaten social media companies into censoring
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
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At 4pm ET today, join @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @annabower.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, and @mollyroberts.bsky.social for a discussion of what happened at this morning's hearing on the grand jury proceedings in the prosecution of James Comey on Substack or YouTube.
Lawfare Live: Discussing Today's Hearing on the Comey Grand Jury Proceedings
At 4 pm ET, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes will sit down with Lawfare Senior Editors Anna Bower, Molly Roberts, and Roger Parloff to discuss today's hearing on the grand jury proceedings in t...
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November 19, 2025 at 6:26 PM
At 4pm ET today, join @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org, @annabower.bsky.social, @rparloff.bsky.social, and @mollyroberts.bsky.social for a discussion of what happened at this morning's hearing on the grand jury proceedings in the prosecution of James Comey on Substack or YouTube.
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So much more to say about this bonkers hearing in the Comey case. We’ll discuss on @lawfaremedia.org live later today (details to come).
NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
So much more to say about this bonkers hearing in the Comey case. We’ll discuss on @lawfaremedia.org live later today (details to come).
Have decided this “tiered yellow cake with chocolate buttercream icing” I made for my partner’s 45th birthday is perhaps more aesthetically appropriate as a celebration of his excellent results on his first colonoscopy.
November 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Have decided this “tiered yellow cake with chocolate buttercream icing” I made for my partner’s 45th birthday is perhaps more aesthetically appropriate as a celebration of his excellent results on his first colonoscopy.
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This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
November 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is, of course, a fascinating thread from Kate asking why Google is effectively cannibalizing its own market for both digital ads on third party properties and search ads, by effectively taking away the incentive to click through to third party sites. I have a theory as to why they're doing it.
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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Stereogum says Google's switch to AI Overviews reduced its ad revenue by *70 percent* www.theverge.com/entertainmen...
Stereogum soldiers on in the era of streaming and AI
Stereogum Founder Scott Lapatine on the importance of independent media in the age of AI slop and algorithms.
www.theverge.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:42 PM
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run.
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