■ Accountability NOW USA’s lawsuit decision over public protests reinforced the belief that the government cannot shut down free speech that criticizes the president, a commentary from the ACLU proclaimed.
■ Texas candidate James Talarico said the Trump administration is committing a “most dangerous form of cancel culture” by pressuring TV stations to reconsider their content, CNN reported.
■ How a college football eligibility rule became a testy First Amendment issue for Louisiana State University is explained by John R. Vile, a political science professor at Middle Tennessee State University.
■ New York’s largest charter school network has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the state’s education commissioner for failing to release Advanced Placement exam results to U.S. News & World Report for its annual high school rankings.
Defend and protect? Attorneys now are being added to the list of advisers for high school newspapers as censorship threats from inside the institutions escalate, The Guardian reported.
■ College free-speech rankings rose slightly on a majority of campuses following a year of dealing with difficult topics, such as the murder of Charlie Kirk and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. That’s according to the seventh annual survey from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
■ “The American university was built to be a place of friction,” wrote a university president in a Fox News opinion piece to mark the anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s death. He called on other college presidents to adopt a “real free-expression policy” on campus and defend it.
■ A professor who parodied university-approved “land acknowledgment” in his syllabus received a $600,000 settlement in his viewpoint discrimination lawsuit against the University of Washington.
Unfiltered. Social media platform TikTok misled consumers about the company’s efforts to filter inappropriate content away from minors, a Texas judge has ruled. Prosecutors alleged employees knew TikTok’s “restrictive mode” did not work, The Hill reported.
■ Despite industry warnings that artificial intelligence technology is moving too fast, President Trump downplayed those fears while adding that he did not want to cede America’s edge over China in global AI competition.
■ In a court filing, the Trump administration contends that OpenAI’s unauthorized use of copyrighted New York Times content was defensible as “fair use.”
■ By letting justices decide what, if any, public records will be made available, the U.S. Supreme Court has become too secretive, contended Lauren Harper, the first Daniel Ellsberg chair on government secrecy for the Freedom of the Press Foundation.
■ The Maine Supreme Court upheld the right of a father to decide whether to send his daughter to a church he considers problematic.
Landmark Howl. More than 70 years ago, a defining work of the Beat Generation, Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl and Other Poems,” generated a high-profile obscenity trial and reshaped free speech in the United States.
■ The continued harassment and intimidation by Memphis Safe Task Force agents of people documenting their activity is a violation of First Amendment rights, the American Civil Liberties Union has claimed in a federal court filing.
■ Former longtime NBA announcer Grant Napear has lost his free-speech fight over his firing for a tweet related to the Black Lives Matter protests.
■ A bill proposed by the New York City Council making it easier to revoke press credentials would curb supporters of accused killer Luigi Mangione who present themselves as journalists.
■ A federal judge refused to block the Pentagon’s firing of Stars and Stripes staff members.
Bore witness. With memories still fresh after 25 years, journalists from the Associated Press shared what they heard, saw, and felt on Sept. 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center towers were attacked.
■ “We are waist-deep in quicksand and still sinking,” was how one editor reacted to the staff cuts made by the McClatchy newspaper chain.
Bore witness. With memories still fresh after 25 years, journalists from the Associated Press shared what they heard, saw, and felt on Sept. 11, 2001, when the World Trade Center towers were attacked.
■ “We are waist-deep in quicksand and still sinking,” was how one editor reacted to the staff cuts made by the McClatchy newspaper chain.
■ The Bari Weiss era of “60 Minutes” began Sunday with a few tweaks and little overhaul, according to media reporters at The New York Times.
■ Former “60 Minutes” managing editor Guy Campanile, fired from CBS News after 34 years, wrote that he and other terminated colleagues “refused to be accomplices in the destruction of the most prestigious news program on American television,” Variety reported.
■ Maria Bartiromo has not given a reason for her leaving Fox News, but a New York Times news analysis provides insights into the former Fox Business host’s downfall at the network.
■ Former “60 Minutes” managing editor Guy Campanile, fired from CBS News after 34 years, wrote that he and other terminated colleagues “refused to be accomplices in the destruction of the most prestigious news program on American television,” Variety reported.
■ Maria Bartiromo has not given a reason for her leaving Fox News, but a New York Times news analysis provides insights into the former Fox Business host’s downfall at the network.