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CSUSB professor quoted about Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover
Yahoo News
Nov. 8, 2022
Brian Levin, CSUSB professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, discusses Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and Musk’s use of Nazi imagery. “For free speech absolutists, Nazi imagery has become some kind of perverted litmus test,” Levin, whose father was a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany, said.
CSUSB’s Brian Levin comments on the status of Twitter now that Elon Musk has taken control
News Tribune
Nov. 8, 2022
“The new standard bearer of the company is setting the tone that Twitter will be a place where misinformation and targeted rumors can circulate with the approval of the man behind the curtain,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino.
Criminal justice professor comments on Twitter and the First Amendment
Baker City Herald
Nov. 7, 2022
Brian Levin, director of CSUSB’s Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, opines that companies that are “so big and influential” — as Twitter indubitably is — should “act with a sense of civic responsibility. And if not, the law should regulate them to the extent it can be done without violating the First Amendment.”
CSUSB’s Brian Levin is quoted about the Pelosi attack
Receive News
Nov. 7, 2022
“The more indifferent you are to the network establishments that unite us, it’s dancing on the other side, because they distrust establishments and processes,” said Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
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