Anupam Chander

White House Push AI-Altered Images Of Arrested ICE Protesters To Manufacture Cruelty We are being led by deeply unserious people. Not only that, but people who are manufacturing cruelty upon their very own constituents. That’s how bad this has gotten. This week, the DOJ arres…

Amidst the relentless lies coming from the federal government, this AI-manipulated photo stood out. When the government says "the memes will continue," it is really saying "the lies will continue" (until there are actual consequences for lying)

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Why has TikTok become an issue in the US? Podcast Episode · The Inside Story Podcast · 01/24/2026 · 26m

I'm on the Al Jazeera podcast Inside Story discussing the TikTok saga. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga

@anupamchander.bsky.social with the money quote:

“My worry all along is that we may have traded fears of foreign propaganda for the reality of domestic propaganda.”

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This deal is concerning because - as @anupamchander.bsky.social notes - it hands control over speech on TikTok to a new consortium of investors with their own motivations for shaping online discourse. Anyone who witnessed the change in ownership of Twitter, now X, knows that ownership matters.

How to Make Sense of Trump’s TikTok Deal President Donald Trump reportedly has a deal to sell off TikTok's US operations. Anupam Chander explains the developments.

For those making sense of the new TikTok deal, recommend @anupamchander.bsky.social from earlier this month on @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/how-to-make-...

TikTok finalizes a deal to form a new American entity TikTok has finalized a deal to create a new American entity, avoiding the looming threat of a ban in the U.S. that has been in discussion for years.

Told the Associated Press one concern about the TikTok deal: “Who controls TikTok in the U.S. has a lot of sway over what Americans see on the app.”

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TikTok Strikes Deal for New U.S. Entity, Ending Long Legal Saga

Succinctly put by @anupamchander.bsky.social: “My worry all along is that we may have traded fears of foreign propaganda for the reality of domestic propaganda" www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

Just finished my last edit turn for my forthcoming Georgetown Law Journal article, The National Security Internet. Excited to see if come out. Please ping me if you want an advance copy.

Are you ready for robots to roam your streets? Global leaders are gathering in Davos, Switzerland, from Monday to Friday for the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, with dialogue and coordination taking center stage amid growing calls for pract...

Driverless cars were just the start. From delivery bots to autonomous assistants, robots will reshape our streets and societies. How should we prepare? My take in China Daily. 👉 www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202601/21/...

Depressing. And so, so unbearably stupid. Shortsighted and foolish. We’ve lost decades (at least) of progress.

The FTC is appealing its loss in its antitrust case against Meta. www.ft.com/content/ef7b...

Martin Luther King, Jr.

National favorable rating via Gallup:

AUGUST 1966: 33% 👍 to 63% 👎
AUGUST 2011: 94% 👍 to 4% 👎

New Book Challenges Assumptions on Digital Governance in China Governing Digital China is a new book from Cambridge University Press by Daniela Stockmann and Ting Luo.

A new book, Governing Digital China, offers crucial insights into China's governance ecosystem. Written by the Hertie School and the Center for Digital Governance's Daniela Stockmann and the University of Birmingham's Ting Luo, the book reveals a more complex reality than simple top-down control.

YouTube video by Legal AF Trump DEFIES SCOTUS and CONGRESS in Major SHOWDOWN

Please check out my latest video on @legalafmtn.bsky.social where leading legal expert @anupamchander.bsky.social breaks down the latest in the sale of U.S. elements of #TikTok.
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I did a podcast on the TikTok saga for Legal AF hosted by @raybrescia.bsky.social--a podcast with a million subscribers on YouTube alone. In just an hour, it has nearly 50,000 views. youtu.be/NLFefApxF6Q?... via @YouTube

Judicial clerks dealing with CFAA: Friendly amendment: Replace Van Buren's "gates up or down" with (more easily comprehensible) "gates open or closed."

How to Make Sense of Trump’s TikTok Deal | TechPolicy.Press President Donald Trump reportedly has a deal to sell off TikTok's US operations. Anupam Chander explains the developments.

TikTok has reportedly signed a deal to transfer ownership of its US app. Anupam Chander unpacks the developments and how the proposal stacks up with the ban-or-sale law that Congress passed in 2024.

How to Make Sense of Trump’s TikTok Deal | TechPolicy.Press President Donald Trump reportedly has a deal to sell off TikTok's US operations. Anupam Chander explains the developments.

Wrote up some quick thoughts on the final and strange contours of the TikTok deal for @techpolicypress.bsky.social: www.techpolicy.press/how-to-make-...

Equally: You go to bed, and then you wake up to find your country has just invaded a foreign country and captured its leader...

GLJ Podcast - Episode 1: @anupamchander.bsky.social previews his forthcoming article, The National Security Internet, examining how national security concerns are reshaping the internet. He argues for security reviews with transparency, due process, and judicial oversight. bit.ly/gljpodcast

Reminding everyone for no particular reason that Section 230 is one of the last things standing between free speech online and Trump having control over everything you see and say on the internet

A combination of factors, having to do with different kinds of litigation regimes/cultures, and the fact that 230 kinda backstops it all since most of the countries are based here. @anupamchander.bsky.social had a good paper on this law.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

Dream job alert: Managing Director, Trust & Safety Foundation

www.trustandsafetyfoundation.org/opportunities

One interesting aspect of the TikTok deal is: There will now be an American version of TikTok overseen by Larry Ellison's Oracle, PE firm Silver Lake and UAE-backed MGX, and then a second version of TikTok controlled by ByteDance for the rest of the world.

@gshans.bsky.social, I, and some other great lawyers (including our pro bono team at @willkiefarr.bsky.social), spent our holiday break writing an amicus brief, trying to warn the Court about the serious First Amendment problems with the divest-or-ban law--issues which have continued to fester...

A year ago @anupamchander.bsky.social and I and many others were dealing with the late December grant of cert in the TikTok case. I don’t think any of us anticipated the twists that this issue has taken since then.

TikTok signs deal to give U.S. operations to Oracle-led investor group The agreement aims to resolve a yearslong standoff between the popular social media platform and the U.S. government over national security concerns tied to China's parent company, ByteDance.

I think attn should turn to what the content moderation regime looks like under this new entity. @anupamchander.bsky.social told me "it is possible that the American TikTok might end up censoring or hiding speech that is permissible on the global TikTok platform" www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

Here's what I told @NPR about the TikTok deal, expected to close on Jan. 22nd, 2026. Still worried about the effect on freedom of speech in the U.S. www.npr.org/2025/12/18/n...

*And* This Is Spinal Tap. (and hilarious in All in the Family, of course!)

Chart showing young voters overwhelming disapprove of Trump, with data for age groups 18-22, 23-29, 30-24, 45-64 and 65+

Young Voters Turn on Trump, Disapprove of Big Beautiful Bill: New results from the Yale Youth Poll: youthpoll.yale.edu/fall-2025-re...