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Texas TikTok Ban Challenged for Threatening ‘Academic Freedom’

A ban of TikTok on state devices and networks in Texas was challenged by First Amendment lawyers on Thursday, who said that the law violated the Constitution by limiting research […]




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New Uncensored Chatbots Ignite a Free-Speech Fracas

A.I. chatbots have lied about notable figures, pushed partisan messages, spewed misinformation or even advised users on how to commit suicide.To mitigate the tools’ most obvious dangers, companies like Google […]




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How Local Officials Seek Revenge on Their Hometown Newspapers

Two of the most powerful women in the village of Delhi in central New York sat face to face in a brick building on Main Street for what would become […]




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Judge Delays Fox and Dominion Trial by a Day

A Delaware judge on Monday said that he had delayed by a day the start of a highly anticipated defamation trial over the spread of misinformation in the 2020 presidential […]




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Murdoch Acknowledges Fox News Hosts Endorsed Election Fraud Falsehoods

Rupert Murdoch, chairman of the conservative media empire that owns Fox News, acknowledged in a deposition that several hosts for his networks promoted the false narrative that the 2020 election […]




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Supreme Court Poised to Reconsider Key Tenets of Online Speech

Partisanship has made the logjam worse. Republicans, some of whom have accused Facebook, Twitter and other sites of censoring them, have pressured the platforms to leave more content up. In […]




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‘Based on a True Story’ (Except the Parts That Aren’t)

But if someone can convincingly claim that he or she was harmed by what screenwriters made up, that is grounds for a strong defamation suit, said Jean-Paul Jassy, a lawyer […]




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Can Ron DeSantis Avoid Meeting the Press?

“We fully expect candidates will be rewriting the traditional rules of access and how they interact with journalists,” said Rick Klein, political director of ABC News, which featured Mr. Cohen […]




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Sean Hannity and Other Fox Stars Face Depositions in Defamation Suit

Some of the biggest names at Fox News have been questioned, or are scheduled to be questioned in the coming days, by lawyers representing Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.6 […]