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Center for Business and Human Rights Deputy Director Paul Barrett is quoted in a story exploring the mounting pressure on Twitter to balance protecting political speech with cracking down on disinformation

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Excerpt from The Hill -- "'The situation illustrates the problematic nature of the policy which may make sense when we think about it in connection with American elected officials who we want to allow to debate the issues of the day even if they’re misleading,”' said Paul Barrett, deputy director of the New York University Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, 'But [it] looks very different when it is protecting foreign officials who for malign reasons are spreading flat out falsehoods about a pandemic.'"

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