■ Meta’s social media dominance is being challenged by the Federal Trade Commission in a landmark monopoly case.
■ A legal expert explained the consequences of repealing “the law that built the internet,” otherwise known as Section 230.
■ Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised “radical transparency” before gutting Freedom of Information Act offices across the federal landscape.
‘Removability finding.’ An immigration judge has ruled that Columbia University graduate and permanent resident Mahmoud Khalil can be deported based on “beliefs, statements, or associations.”
■ Free-speech advocates issued warnings that student deportations, detentions, and visa revocations should worry every American.
■ Poynter’s Kelly McBride has detailed how NPR covers national protests while it fields complaints about its coverage.
■ Fearing legal repercussions and professional consequences, student journalists are resigning and are removing their names from published articles.
Beg pardon. Alabama’s anti-panhandling laws are unconstitutional and begging is protected speech, a federal appeals court has ruled.
■ Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a religious-freedom bill in part fulfilling a goal of the state GOP leaders since 2015.
■ A federal judge has sided with President Trump in allowing immigration enforcement actions in houses of worship.
■ The buffer zone for protesters at the Karen Read trial does not violate the First Amendment, a federal judge has ruled.
Home bound? Foreign journalists working for U.S.-backed media fear returning to their repressive homelands in the wake of funding cuts.
■ Harvard professors have sued the Trump administration over federal funding cuts that they say would violate their First Amendment rights.
■ A federal judge ordered the White House to reinstate full access to The Associated Press for covering presidential events.
Bro cast. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a potential way for Democrats to connect with young male voters: his podcast.
■ A Delaware judge ruled that Newsmax made defamatory statements in 2020 about Dominion Voting Systems and that the case now would proceed to a trial by jury.
■ A former Mississippi governor has his defamation suit against a local news outlet dismissed by a county circuit court judge.
■ More than five dozen media and press-freedom groups have joined to fight a Trump administration executive order they say threatens free expression.
■ Harvard professors have sued the Trump administration over federal funding cuts that they say would violate their First Amendment rights.
■ A federal judge ordered the White House to reinstate full access to The Associated Press for covering presidential events.
Bro cast. California Gov. Gavin Newsom has a potential way for Democrats to connect with young male voters: his podcast.
■ A Delaware judge ruled that Newsmax made defamatory statements in 2020 about Dominion Voting Systems and that the case now would proceed to a trial by jury.
■ A former Mississippi governor has his defamation suit against a local news outlet dismissed by a county circuit court judge.
■ More than five dozen media and press-freedom groups have joined to fight a Trump administration executive order they say threatens free expression.