Checking the Facts About Digital Rights & Online Safety
December 7, 2026 • 10:30 am ET
New technology has been developing at a rapid pace with legislators scrambling to keep up. Their haste to regulate has produced a slew of legislation that frequently threatens privacy and free expression online. We started worrying about this when age verification laws burst onto the scene in 2022 and quickly investigated the claims about age verification’s ability to keep us “safe” online in one of our first Fact Checked by Woodhull categories. We’re wrapping up our 2026 Fact Checked virtual series in December by revisiting this category and looking at how legislation has evolved since we initially published these articles in 2024. Three experts will be joining us to examine what’s happening with our human rights online: Dia Kayyali, technology and human rights consultant, and community organizer; Sarah McLaughlin Senior Scholar of Global Expression at FIRE; and Jared Trujilo, Associate Professor of Law at CUNY Law School and Policy Counsel of Equality NY. As usual, Woodhull’s Senior Policy Analyst Dr. Allison Grossman will kick things off with a review of what we found while researching for Fact Checked by Woodhull. You don’t want to miss this!
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