Pressing issue. With time running out, the Freedom of the Press Foundation urged Sen. Dick Durbin to advance the PRESS Act and protect journalist-source confidentiality.
■ Layoffs at Media Matters underscored the need to crack down on SLAPPs, declared the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ The executive editor of The Washington Post has stepped down after three years at the helm.
■ Layoffs at Media Matters underscored the need to crack down on SLAPPs, declared the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ The executive editor of The Washington Post has stepped down after three years at the helm.
■ Comedian Jon Stewart ripped Fox News hosts for insincere rhetoric on issues of free speech.
■ No matter how you feel about guns, the NRA decision is good for free speech, declared an associate editor at Reason.
■ Investigative journalists filed a lawsuit in Wisconsin to force the release of names, birthdates, and records of every police officer in the state.
■ In Tennessee’s Davidson County criminal courts some public documents disappear without anyone knowing about it, the Nashville Banner reported.
Pole result? U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s flag-flying is a question of ethics, not freedom of speech, declared a Princeton University politics professor in a U.S. News & World Report commentary.
■ The Washington Post acknowledged that it had the Justice Alito upside-down flag story three years ago but did not publish it.
■ The Supreme Court has declined to hear an InfoWars host’s First Amendment challenge to his Jan. 6 conviction.
■ Citing a First Amendment right to hire whom it wants, CBS filed a motion to dismiss a script coordinator’s lawsuit challenging the network’s diversity hiring practices.
■ The First Amendment lawsuit by basketball hall of famer John Stockton lawsuit was dismissed by a U.S. district judge in Washington state.
Trump Tok. Donald Trump amassed more than 3 million followers after joining TikTok, the short-video social media platform that he tried to ban during his presidency.
■ The First Amendment lawsuit by basketball hall of famer John Stockton lawsuit was dismissed by a U.S. district judge in Washington state.
Trump Tok. Donald Trump amassed more than 3 million followers after joining TikTok, the short-video social media platform that he tried to ban during his presidency.
■ TikTok is working on a clone of the core algorithm for its 170 million U.S. users to avoid a law that forces a sale or ban of the social media app, Reuters reported.
■ OpenAI has secured a multiyear deal to use news content from News Corp.’s major publications, including The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and the New York Post.
■ A high school graduate received her diploma, then handed a copy of one of her school district’s banned books to its superintendent.
Difficult conversations. Spring protests have managed to flip-flop free-speech hypocrisy on college campuses, reasoned associate editor Colin Meyn in The Hill.
■ Harvard University has instituted a new policy where it will no longer take sides on hot-button political issues.
■ A jury affirmed that the First Amendment rights of a campus police officer in Michigan were violated after he spoke to the media about a sensitive case.
■ A high school graduate received her diploma, then handed a copy of one of her school district’s banned books to its superintendent.
Difficult conversations. Spring protests have managed to flip-flop free-speech hypocrisy on college campuses, reasoned associate editor Colin Meyn in The Hill.
■ Harvard University has instituted a new policy where it will no longer take sides on hot-button political issues.
■ A jury affirmed that the First Amendment rights of a campus police officer in Michigan were violated after he spoke to the media about a sensitive case.
■ Civil rights attorneys conclude that a new Louisiana
law that limits the filming of police officers violates the First Amendment and hampers racial justice.
■ After a life devoted to social justice, ACLU leader and free-speech advocate John W. Roberts dies at 89 in Massachusetts.
