TikTok’s Fate Arrives at Supreme Court in Collision of Free Speech and National Security
TikTok and China-based ByteDance, as well as content creators and users, argue the law is a dramatic violation of the Constitution’s free speech guarantee.
CNN Defamation Trial Comes at a Rough Time for Legacy Media
Defamation trials are actually rare in the United States, in part because strong constitutional protections for the press make proving libel difficult.
Judge Scraps Biden’s Title IX Rules, Reversing Expansion of Protections for LGBTQ+ Students
The judge also found that it violated free speech rights by requiring teachers to use pronouns aligning with a student’s gender identity.
Meta Replaces Fact-Checking With X-Style Community Notes
The company said it plans to allow “more speech” by lifting some restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discussion such as immigration and gender.
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker’s Stephanie Sugars on Protests, Police and the Press
Sugars discussed the considerations that are made in including detainments or arrests in the Tracker and the often tumultuous relationship between police and the press.
Judge Largely Blocks Tennessee’s Porn Site Age Verification Law as Other States Enforce Theirs
The judge ruled the law would likely suppress the First Amendment free speech rights of adults without actually preventing children from accessing harmful material.