■ College students embrace campus speech but are concerned about how others use that right, a Knight Foundation-Ipsos study has found.
■ Think you know what freedom of speech means? Test your knowledge with an NPR history quiz.
Stripped of their titles. Under a new law, Utah has become the first state to implement a statewide prohibition of 13 books from all public-school libraries and classrooms.
Oh, hell. Boston’s city council did not discriminate against the Satanic Temple when it rejected the group’s offer to give an invocation before a public meeting, a Massachusetts appeals court has ruled.
■ A U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals judicial panel rejected a First Amendment challenge to an Ohio school’s transgender student pronoun policy.
■ The Securities and Exchange Commission’s “gag rule” is a violation of the First Amendment and hinders the work of journalists, argued Seth Stern, a freedom of the press advocate.
Parroting parody. X’s Elon Musk made a Kamala Harris deepfake ad go viral when he reposted it, sparking a debate about parody and free speech.
■ Mark Cuban, the “Shark Tank” star and business magnate, challenged Musk on his suppression and amplification of posted “truths.”
Shredded. A year after the raid on a Marion County newspaper, Kansas officials still do not care about constitutional freedoms, declared the opinion editor of the Kansas Reflector.
■ Prosecutors in Topeka announced they will charge the former police chief involved in a raid on the Marion County Record with obstruction of justice.
■ A New York City journalist who documented pro-Palestinian vandalism by protesters has been arrested on felony hate-crime charges.
■ University of New Mexico police have dismissed charges against two journalists who were arrested during a sweep of a protest encampment in May.
■ Think you know what freedom of speech means? Test your knowledge with an NPR history quiz.
Stripped of their titles. Under a new law, Utah has become the first state to implement a statewide prohibition of 13 books from all public-school libraries and classrooms.
■ Author mocks state ban of her book with a social media threat to “hit Utah with my cane.”
■ A Chicago-based policy institute has sued the Illinois Department of Labor claiming a new state law, Worker Freedom of Speech Act, violates employers’ First Amendment rights.
■ Louisiana became the latest state to establish a police-buffer law to limit the distance journalists must maintain when covering police actions.
■ A Chicago-based policy institute has sued the Illinois Department of Labor claiming a new state law, Worker Freedom of Speech Act, violates employers’ First Amendment rights.
■ Louisiana became the latest state to establish a police-buffer law to limit the distance journalists must maintain when covering police actions.
Oh, hell. Boston’s city council did not discriminate against the Satanic Temple when it rejected the group’s offer to give an invocation before a public meeting, a Massachusetts appeals court has ruled.
■ A U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals judicial panel rejected a First Amendment challenge to an Ohio school’s transgender student pronoun policy.
■ The Securities and Exchange Commission’s “gag rule” is a violation of the First Amendment and hinders the work of journalists, argued Seth Stern, a freedom of the press advocate.
Parroting parody. X’s Elon Musk made a Kamala Harris deepfake ad go viral when he reposted it, sparking a debate about parody and free speech.
■ Mark Cuban, the “Shark Tank” star and business magnate, challenged Musk on his suppression and amplification of posted “truths.”
■ Social media companies say they have First Amendment rights that protect their speech.
■ Susan Wojcicki, a Silicon Valley visionary who helped shape Google and YouTube, has died at 56.
Shredded. A year after the raid on a Marion County newspaper, Kansas officials still do not care about constitutional freedoms, declared the opinion editor of the Kansas Reflector.
■ Prosecutors in Topeka announced they will charge the former police chief involved in a raid on the Marion County Record with obstruction of justice.
■ A New York City journalist who documented pro-Palestinian vandalism by protesters has been arrested on felony hate-crime charges.
■ University of New Mexico police have dismissed charges against two journalists who were arrested during a sweep of a protest encampment in May.