<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);font-family:Spectral,serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Dear Colleagues,</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);font-family:Spectral,serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">I am writing to share the video of a panel I organized on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCX2Xy3daI" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">Censorship and Freedom of Expression</a> at the 2026 Cambridge Disinformation Summit. It was an honor to discuss the increasing threats to speech in the context of autocratization alongside such esteemed speech defenders and democracy advocates in the beautiful Cambridge Union, here’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCX2Xy3daI" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">the video</a> and the full panel included:</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);font-family:Spectral,serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px"><strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/norabenavidez/" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">Nora Benavidez</a></strong>, Senior Counsel and Director of Digital Justice and Civil Rights at Free Press, leading its democracy and tech initiatives</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);font-family:Spectral,serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px"><strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameel-jaffer-17648426/" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">Jameel Jaffer</a></strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jameel-jaffer-17648426/" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">,</a> who directs the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which sponsors litigation and research at the intersection of free speech and new technology</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);font-family:Spectral,serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px"><strong><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemimah-steinfeld-25ab03a/" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">Jemimah Steinfeld</a></strong>, who is CEO of the freedom of expression organization Index on Censorship</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);font-family:Spectral,serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px"><a href="http://emma-briant.co.uk/" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)"><b>Emma L. Briant</b></a>, Visiting Associate Professor at Lucy Family Institute for Data and Society, University of Notre Dame</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);font-family:Spectral,serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">I hope you find <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCX2Xy3daI" style="color:rgb(54,55,55)">the video</a> interesting and will consider sharing what I feel was an important discussion.</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);font-family:Spectral,serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Best wishes,</p><p style="line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);font-family:Spectral,serif,system-ui,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol";font-size:19px">Emma</p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:system-ui,sans-serif"><div><span style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><b>Dr Emma L Briant</b></span></span></div><div><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><br></font><div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Visiting Associate Professor at University of </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Notre Dame</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,H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