■ TikTok reached a $400 million settlement with a case involving the company’s alleged illegal gathering of children’s information, The New York Times reported last week.
■ A U.S. district judge has barred the Trump administration from retaliating against AI firm Anthropic from the federal government, determining that the punishment violated First Amendment protections.
■ The $50 million judgment against Infowars’ Alex Jones for false claims about the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was reduced to $6 million by the Texas 3rd Court of Appeals, NBC News reported.
Hostile territory. Tensions between presidents and the press have existed since George Washington took office, but no chief executive has attacked the news media in such a relentless and retaliatory manner as Donald Trump, according to Ken Paulson, director of the Free Speech Center at Middle Tennessee State University.
■ The Trump administration is using an obscure law to snoop on unions, nonprofits, and especially journalists, in an alarming maneuver to obtain private information, The Guardian reported.
■ President Trump has vowed to report “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker to the FCC for “rebuke or punishment” over her apparently accurate comments about mixed endorsement results.
■ President Trump has vowed to report “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker to the FCC for “rebuke or punishment” over her apparently accurate comments about mixed endorsement results.
■ The president cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, a federal judge in California ruled on behalf of Stanford University students.
■ A free-speech group has condemned the use of passages from ex-FBI Director James Comey’s novel by prosecutors to build a case that he threatened to kill President Trump.
Battle ready. David McCraw, lead newsroom lawyer for The New York Times, just may be the tip of the spear defending U.S. press freedoms under attack almost daily, explained Brier Dudley in a Seattle Times opinion piece.
■ An Alabama jury awarded $9.25 million in damages to a college basketball player it found had been defamed in New York Times reporting of a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa.
■ Florida International University likely violated the First Amendment rights of students who staged a silent anti-ICE protest, a federal judge has ruled.
■ After objections to its censoring of a student newspaper over a cartoon critical of ICE, a Nebraska school district adopted a new policy that gives administrators formal power to restrict student journalism.
Poll troll? Calling it a short-term social experiment, a previously unknown organization, Median Strategies, posted fabricated poll results on political races in three states that were shared on social media and carried on news outlets. The results were later retracted without explanation.
■ Continuing its battle with the Trump administration over broadcast licensing, ABC has taken the rare step of suing the Federal Communications Commission on First Amendment grounds, according to Associated Press reports.
■ An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate black opinion writer Karen Attiah, who was fired for social media posts she made after the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last year.
■ Civil rights groups have made public-records requests in five Tennessee school districts for documents detailing their decisions to display the Ten Commandments in their K-12 schools.
Dolly would. Media-savvy Dolly Parton, who died last week at 80, is remembered as an American hero and icon of inclusion by writer and editor Andi Zeisler in a Salon commentary.
■ Citing the late Dolly Parton in his ruling, a federal judge has struck down a Texas ban on drag shows, telling anyone offended by them: “just don’t go.”
■ Staff members from the Stars and Stripes military news outlet have sued to challenge their firings by the Pentagon, calling the action a violation of their free-speech rights.
■ White nationalists have mapped out strategies to target the rural areas of the country where local news outlets continue to disappear, investigative reporter Phil Williams discovered.
■ A free-speech group has condemned the use of passages from ex-FBI Director James Comey’s novel by prosecutors to build a case that he threatened to kill President Trump.
Battle ready. David McCraw, lead newsroom lawyer for The New York Times, just may be the tip of the spear defending U.S. press freedoms under attack almost daily, explained Brier Dudley in a Seattle Times opinion piece.
■ An Alabama jury awarded $9.25 million in damages to a college basketball player it found had been defamed in New York Times reporting of a fatal shooting in Tuscaloosa.
■ Florida International University likely violated the First Amendment rights of students who staged a silent anti-ICE protest, a federal judge has ruled.
■ After objections to its censoring of a student newspaper over a cartoon critical of ICE, a Nebraska school district adopted a new policy that gives administrators formal power to restrict student journalism.
Poll troll? Calling it a short-term social experiment, a previously unknown organization, Median Strategies, posted fabricated poll results on political races in three states that were shared on social media and carried on news outlets. The results were later retracted without explanation.
■ Continuing its battle with the Trump administration over broadcast licensing, ABC has taken the rare step of suing the Federal Communications Commission on First Amendment grounds, according to Associated Press reports.
■ An arbitrator has ordered The Washington Post to reinstate black opinion writer Karen Attiah, who was fired for social media posts she made after the killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk last year.
■ Civil rights groups have made public-records requests in five Tennessee school districts for documents detailing their decisions to display the Ten Commandments in their K-12 schools.
Dolly would. Media-savvy Dolly Parton, who died last week at 80, is remembered as an American hero and icon of inclusion by writer and editor Andi Zeisler in a Salon commentary.
■ Citing the late Dolly Parton in his ruling, a federal judge has struck down a Texas ban on drag shows, telling anyone offended by them: “just don’t go.”
■ Staff members from the Stars and Stripes military news outlet have sued to challenge their firings by the Pentagon, calling the action a violation of their free-speech rights.
■ White nationalists have mapped out strategies to target the rural areas of the country where local news outlets continue to disappear, investigative reporter Phil Williams discovered.