Susanna Granieri is the senior staff writer at First Amendment Watch and lead researcher on The SLAPP Back Initiative, a first-of-its-kind database tracking strategic lawsuits against public participation. She previously reported on politics and policy for the Albany-based Legislative Gazette and investigated the use of faulty forensic science in death penalty convictions with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. She is a graduate of SUNY New Paltz and the Columbia Journalism School.
Susanna Granieri
Senior Staff Writer
Attorney Richard Roth on the Defamation Lawsuit Over Netflix’s ‘Baby Reindeer’
In an interview, Richard Roth discussed the allegedly damaging inaccuracies in “Baby Reindeer” and argues his client is a private person.
Does the First Amendment Protect Political Deepfakes? Scholars Weigh In
Two professors discuss the difficulty of enforcing deepfake legislation aimed at regulating false political speech without running afoul of the First Amendment.
Center for Democracy and Technology’s Kate Ruane on the Kids Online Safety Act
Ruane, director of the Center for Democracy and Technology’s Free Expression Project, a nonprofit organization that has expressed its opposition to the bill, discussed KOSA and its First Amendment implications.
Eugene Volokh on Section 230, Generative AI and the First Amendment
Volokh discussed Section 230, whether generative AI outputs are protected under the First Amendment and if AI companies can be held liable for defamation.
Attorney Jess Miers on the Supreme Court Decision in Moody v. NetChoice
Miers described the decision as a positive one and agreed with the court’s comparison of content moderation by social media companies to journalistic editorial curation.
FIRE’s JT Morris on Texas Citizen Journalist Priscilla Villarreal’s Lawsuit
First Amendment Watch spoke with Morris about Villarreal’s case, its First Amendment implications, and the status of protections for citizen journalists like Villarreal.
Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of California Berkeley School of Law, on Campus Speech
In an interview, Chemerinsky explained why the protest at his home was not protected expression but other, personal, even anti-Semitic attacks against him were protected under the First Amendment.
Author Amy Werbel on the Parallels Between the Comstock Era and Modern-Day Censorship
In an interview, Werbel expressed concerns over the threats of librarian prosecution and the importance of children’s access to reading materials.