{
  "id": 8119,
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3038939",
  "title": "Free Speech in the Algorithmic Society: Big Data, Private Governance, and New School Speech Regulation",
  "summary": "We have now moved from the early days of the Internet to the Algorithmic Society. The Algorithmic Society features the use of algorithms, artificial intelligence agents, and Big Data to govern populations. It also features digital infrastructure companies, large multi-national social media platforms, and search engines that sit between traditional nation states and ordinary individuals, and serve as special-purpose governors of speech.",
  "authors": "Jack M. Balkin",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,children-education,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2017-01-01T00:00:00.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:34.085Z",
  "source_slug": "openalex",
  "source_name": "OpenAlex",
  "source_homepage": "https://openalex.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/8119",
  "original_url": "https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3038939",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}