A few weeks before the announcement in the wee hours of July 1 that

, where she focuses on threats to free speech and a free press in the digital age, particularly in the area of social media. Before joining the Knight Institute, Fallow was deputy director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and was a litigation partner at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C., where she represented video game makers in a long line of challenges to government restrictions on video games, culminating in the Supreme Court’s 2011 landmark decision in Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association, holding that violent video games are protected speech.