Daphne Keller is the Director of Platform Regulation at the Stanford Program in Law, Science, & Technology. Her academic, policy, and popular press writing focuses on platform regulation and Internet users'; rights in the U.S., EU, and around the world. Her recent work has focused on platform transparency, data collection for artificial intelligence, interoperability models, and “must-carry” obligations. She has testified before legislatures, courts, and regulatory bodies around the world on topics ranging from the practical realities of content moderation to copyright and data protection. She was previously Associate General Counsel for Google, where she had responsibility for the company’s web search products. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, Brown University, and Head Start.

SHORT PIECES

• The Rise of the Compliant Speech Platform, Lawfare, other posts here
• Q&A with Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker
• Regulating Platform Risk and Design: ChatGPT Says the Quiet Part out Loud, Stanford Center for Internet and Society blog, other posts here

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

• Amplification and Its Discontents: Why Regulating the Reach of Online Speech is Hard
• Platform Transparency and the First Amendment
• Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users
• The Right Tools: Europe’s Intermediary Liability Laws and the GDPR

POLICY PUBLICATIONS

• The Long Reach of Taamneh: Carriage and Removal Requirements for Internet Platforms
• Making Middleware Work
• Who Do You Sue?

FILINGS

• U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief on behalf of Francis Fukuyama, NetChoice v. Moody (2024)
• U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief with ACLU, Gonzalez v. Google (2023)
• Comment to European Commission on data access under EU Digital Services Act
• U.S. Senate testimony on platform transparency

PUBLICATIONS LIST

Michael McFaul is the Ken Olivier and Angela Nomellini Professor of International Studies in Political Science, Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and the Peter and Helen Bing Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, all at Stanford University. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1995 and served as FSI Director from 2015 to 2025. He is also an international affairs analyst for MSNOW.

McFaul served for five years in the Obama administration, first as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russian and Eurasian Affairs at the National Security Council at the White House (2009-2012), and then as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation (2012-2014).

McFaul has authored ten books and edited several others, including, most recently, Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder, as well as From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia, (a New York Times bestseller) Advancing Democracy Abroad: Why We Should, How We Can; and Russia’s Unfinished Revolution: Political Change from Gorbachev to Putin.

He is a recipient of numerous awards, including an honorary PhD from Montana State University; the Order for Merits to Lithuania from President Gitanas Nausea of Lithuania; Order of Merit of Third Degree from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, and the Dean’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Stanford University. In 2015, he was the Distinguished Mingde Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Center at Peking University.

McFaul was born and raised in Montana. He received his B.A. in International Relations and Slavic Languages and his M.A. in Soviet and East European Studies from Stanford University in 1986. As a Rhodes Scholar, he completed his D. Phil. in International Relations at Oxford University in 1991.