Alex Stamos on the Hard Tradeoffs of the Internet

Alex Stamos on the Hard Tradeoffs of the Internet

In this episode of Lawfare's Arbiters of Truth series on disinformation, Evelyn Douek and Kate Klonick spoke with Alex Stamos, the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory. Prior to joining Stanford, Alex served as the chief security officer at Facebook, and before that, as the chief information security officer at Yahoo. They talked about Alex's experience at Facebook handling 2016 election interference, as well as his work on cybersecurity, disinformation, and end-to-end encryption.

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Lawfare Daily: The Privacy Law That's Supposed To Be Protecting Us Online Turns 40

Lawfare Daily: The Privacy Law That's Supposed To Be Protecting Us Online Turns 40

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Rational Security: The "Chicken Sh*t Bingo" Edition

Rational Security: The "Chicken Sh*t Bingo" Edition

This week, Scott sat down with his Lawfare colleagues Senior Editors Anna Bower, Kevin Frazier, and Kate Klonick to talk through the week’s big news in national security, including:“The X Post Facto R...

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Lawfare Daily: Beyond the Headlines: A History of U.S.-Iran Relations

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In this episode, Ariane Tabatabai sits down with historian, John Ghazvinian, the author of, “America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present,” to discuss U.S.-Iran relations. They take a step back fr...

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Lawfare Daily: Joel Braunold on West Bank Violence and Israel’s New Lebanon Offensive

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For today’s episode, Lawfare Senior Editor Scott R. Anderson sits down with Joel Braunold, the Managing Director of the Center Project, for the latest in their regular series on recent developments in...

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Lawfare Daily: What’s Influencing Politics Online? X’s Algorithm, Creators, and the New Persuasion Machine

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In this episode, Lawfare Contributing Editor Renée DiResta speaks with Nathaniel Lubin, co-author of “How Social Media Creators Shape Mass Politics,” and Philine Widmer, co-author of a recent Nature p...

31 Mar 47min

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 27

Lawfare Daily: The Trials of the Trump Administration, March 27

In a live conversation on YouTube, Lawfare Editor in Chief Benjamin Wittes sat down with Lawfare Senior Editors Molly Roberts, Anna Bower, and Roger Parloff, discuss a judge granting a preliminary inj...

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Lawfare Archive: Tom Kent on the Dismantling of American Government Broadcasting

Lawfare Archive: Tom Kent on the Dismantling of American Government Broadcasting

From March 25, 2025: Tom Kent ran Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is a longtime Russia watcher. He talks to Lawfare Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Wittes about President Trump’s executive order dismantl...

29 Mar 41min

Lawfare Archive: The New Syrian Government and Its Problems

Lawfare Archive: The New Syrian Government and Its Problems

From March 19, 2025: For today's episode, Lawfare Foreign Policy Editor Daniel Byman interviewed Steven Heydemann, the Director of the Middle East Studies Program at Smith College, to assess the fast-...

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