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On this episode of Newhouse Impact Kevin Kloss chats with Newhouse Professor Roy Gutterman. An expert on communications law and the First Amendment, Gutterman is director of the Newhouse School's Tully Center for Free Speech. Kevin asks Roy about his recent paper, Hexing, Vexing and Flexing: A Look at the Legal and First Amendment Implications of Curses, Spells and Witchcraft and digs into the concept of free speech as it pertains to curses, hexes, and witchcraft.Newhouse Impact, is a colla...

Earlier this year, the Biden Administration (reluctantly) abandoned its plan to create a new Disinformation Governance Board within the Department of Homeland Security. Yet the Administration remains convinced that unpoliced speech threatens its ability to govern, and its hunt for disinformation in all corners of American life continues apace. Thus, the truth-vetting functions have not disappeared with the ill-fated board; instead, they are scattering to other executive agencies, including the F...