On a recent summer day, Austin Knudsen, Montana’s attorney general, drove his red Buick from Helena, the state’s capital, to Boulder, a tiny town about a half-hour away whose main […]
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Back to news homeReport on Anti-Gay Slur Could Put Wisconsin News Site Out of Business
The county board meeting in Wausau, Wis., on Aug. 12, 2021, got contentious fast. Nobody disputes that.But what happened about 12 minutes in, as members of the north-central Wisconsin community […]
Sweden Is Not Staying Neutral in Russia’s Information War
Facing a tsunami of disinformation about the treatment of Muslims that has in recent months fueled protests from Stockholm to Baghdad, Sweden decided it needed to fight back.It turned to […]
An Internet Veteran’s Guide to Not Being Scared of Technology
How could they protect themselves from A.I.?That was the question that Mike Masnick found himself fielding this summer in a WhatsApp chat with about 100 directors, actors and screenwriters. The […]
TikTok Is Funding Montana Users’ Suit Against Ban
When five TikTok creators in Montana filed a lawsuit last month, saying the state’s new ban of the app violated their First Amendment rights and far outstripped the government’s legal […]
Supreme Court to Hear Case That Targets a Legal Shield of Tech Giants
Nohemi Gonzalez, a 23-year-old California college student, was studying abroad in Paris in November 2015 when she was among the 130 people killed in a coordinated series of terrorist attacks […]
Free Speech vs. Disinformation Comes to a Head
“I do not get involved in any way with social media,” he said. “I don’t have an account. I don’t tweet, I don’t Facebook, and I don’t pay attention to […]
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 […]
Auburn Banned TikTok, and Students Can’t Stop Talking About It
One former sorority sister at Auburn, for example, “did a new TikTok dance every day promoting Auburn Zeta Tau Alpha so people would see how much fun she was having […]
As Covid-19 Continues to Spread, So Does Misinformation About It
Nearly three years into the pandemic, Covid-19 remains stubbornly persistent. So, too, does misinformation about the virus.As Covid cases, hospitalizations and deaths rise in parts of the country, myths and […]