■ OpenAI and Reddit have agreed to bring the social media platform’s content to ChatGPT, the Associated Press reported.
■ Ahead of the presidential election, AI chatbots can easily be manipulated to sow disinformation online, reported The New York Times.
■ Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito declared freedom of speech was under threat and freedom of religion in peril during commencement remarks in Ohio.
■ Louisiana is close to becoming the first state to require the display of the Ten Commandments in schools.
Totally rad. The country needs to build a broad moral consensus around the universal right to dissent, declared Jay Caspian Kang in The New Yorker.
■ The Israel-Hamas conflict has challenged whether college campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest.
■ The student-protest policies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville do not threaten free speech, according to First Amendment experts.
■ The right to protest is at the heart of First Amendment freedoms and it has been beating across college campuses in 2024.
A free suppress? In a ‘‘catch and kill’’ scenario, there may be First Amendment implications in forbidding the purchase of a news story only to suppress it?
■ Ahead of the presidential election, AI chatbots can easily be manipulated to sow disinformation online, reported The New York Times.
■ Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito declared freedom of speech was under threat and freedom of religion in peril during commencement remarks in Ohio.
■ Louisiana is close to becoming the first state to require the display of the Ten Commandments in schools.
Totally rad. The country needs to build a broad moral consensus around the universal right to dissent, declared Jay Caspian Kang in The New Yorker.
■ The Israel-Hamas conflict has challenged whether college campuses are sacrosanct places for speech and protest.
■ The student-protest policies at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville do not threaten free speech, according to First Amendment experts.
■ The right to protest is at the heart of First Amendment freedoms and it has been beating across college campuses in 2024.
A free suppress? In a ‘‘catch and kill’’ scenario, there may be First Amendment implications in forbidding the purchase of a news story only to suppress it?
■ A London court ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the United States on espionage charges but First Amendment protections are still in question.
■ Environmental journalists are increasingly under attack and facing obstacles to newsgathering, a UNESCO report has revealed.
■ Gannett fired an editor for talking to me, wrote Rick Edmonds, a media analyst for the Poynter Institute, in a recent opinion piece.
■ ProPublica editor Stephen Engelberg has won the Freedom of the Press Career Achievement Award.
Left turns. MSNBC’s leftward tilt has boosted its ratings but has been a source of discomfort for parent company, NBC which strives not to alienate red-state viewers, reported The New York Times.
■ A Georgia judge tossed a First Amendment lawsuit by a state Supreme Court candidate who sought to block an investigation of him for campaign comments about abortion issues.
■ California police have continued to violate the state’s press-freedom law, according to reports compiled by the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ Lawsuits by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression have worked to protect public comments at government meetings.
Stay on the grass. An ordinance designed to cut down on lawn signs in a small Pennsylvania town was ruled unconstitutional by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
■ Local newspapers in Illinois would be bolstered by the passage of two state Senate bills.
■ Declaring a divestiture law violates the First Amendment, eight TikTok creators have sued the U.S. government for undermining “the nation’s founding principles.’’
■ Gannett fired an editor for talking to me, wrote Rick Edmonds, a media analyst for the Poynter Institute, in a recent opinion piece.
■ ProPublica editor Stephen Engelberg has won the Freedom of the Press Career Achievement Award.
Left turns. MSNBC’s leftward tilt has boosted its ratings but has been a source of discomfort for parent company, NBC which strives not to alienate red-state viewers, reported The New York Times.
■ A Georgia judge tossed a First Amendment lawsuit by a state Supreme Court candidate who sought to block an investigation of him for campaign comments about abortion issues.
■ California police have continued to violate the state’s press-freedom law, according to reports compiled by the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ Lawsuits by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression have worked to protect public comments at government meetings.
Stay on the grass. An ordinance designed to cut down on lawn signs in a small Pennsylvania town was ruled unconstitutional by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
■ Local newspapers in Illinois would be bolstered by the passage of two state Senate bills.
■ Declaring a divestiture law violates the First Amendment, eight TikTok creators have sued the U.S. government for undermining “the nation’s founding principles.’’
