TikTalk. First Amendment
advocates are saying that a ban on TikTok may violate the U.S. Constitution and
set a dangerous precedent for artistic expression.
■ Fox News may avoid going to trial and settle the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit, contend free-speech experts.
■ The Fox network’s reliance on First Amendment protections is “the height of hypocrisy,” opined Margaret Sullivan in The Guardian.
■ Attacks on First Amendment freedoms are growing across the country at a “deeply troubling” rate, media experts warn.
■ Fox News may avoid going to trial and settle the Dominion Voting Systems defamation lawsuit, contend free-speech experts.
■ The Fox network’s reliance on First Amendment protections is “the height of hypocrisy,” opined Margaret Sullivan in The Guardian.
■ Attacks on First Amendment freedoms are growing across the country at a “deeply troubling” rate, media experts warn.
■ Is media reliance on anonymous sources
indirectly responsible for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ push to make suing journalists for defamation easier?
■ Artistic-expression arguments have created hurdles that are slowing Tennessee anti-LGBTQ+ legislative measures.
■ Tennessee’s drag-performance law discriminates based on viewpoint, a violation of the First Amendment, a Harvard law professor asserted in a Media News Group commentary.
■ The West Texas A&M University
president who canceled a campus drag show has been hit with an unlawful-censorship lawsuit, FIRE reported.
■ A bipartisan group of U.S. senators work to push bill that would allow live broadcasts of Supreme Court proceedings.
■ A Colorado proposal would reduce the costs of obtaining public records for news outlets.
■ A former federal judge appointed to an Ashley Biden stolen-diary probe has rejected Project Veritas’ free-speech defense claims.
■ A trial over the 2016 Twitter troll that intended to suppress votes for Hillary Clinton may test the limits of online speech.
■ A federal judge sided with publishers, handing the Internet Archive its first fair-use loss in the fight over digital book preservation.
■ Potential felony charges hang over a Michigan library director if she does not take a controversial LGBTQ+ novel off the shelves.
■ Grammy-winning musician Melissa Etheridge offered some personal takes on free speech and artistic expression in a YouTube video interview hosted by FIRE.
■ A federal judge has ruled that Alabama laws against panhandling are unconstitutional.
■ The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court angered some elected officials when it ruled that people have the right to be rude at public meetings.
■ It was a big whoopsie for Whoopi Goldberg as “The View” co-host got facts wrong about lying and the First Amendment, PolitiFact reported.