Professor Bhagwat helps PolitiFact fact-check President Trump's anti-Twitter stance

Professor Ashutosh Bhagwat told PolitiFact that Twitter censors nudity, hate speech and other forms of free speech “all the time,” as is its right as a private entity. Bhagwat spoke to PolitiFact as part of its “fact check” of President Trump’s assertion – via tweet -- that Twitter was “stifling free speech” by fact-checking his tweets. PolitiFact rated Trump’s claim “Pants on Fire.” Read the story

Bhagwat also spoke about Trump's claims about social media companies in a UC Davis Law video.

Ashutosh Bhagwat, Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality, and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law, is an innovative, broad-ranging, and widely published constitutional law scholar.