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Internet Speech
U.S. President Donald Trump at the Oval Office in Washington

Trump Rescinds Biden’s Executive Order on AI Safety in Attempt To Diverge From His Predecessor

His campaign platform described it as imposing “Radical Leftwing ideas on the development of this technology,” tying it to broader concerns about ”woke AI” chatbots reflecting liberal biases.

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Trump Issues Executive Order to Suspend U.S. TikTok Ban. But Can It Stick?

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday to keep TikTok operating for 75 days even as national security questions persist.

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Supreme Court Backs Law Banning TikTok If Chinese Parent Company Refuses Sale

The justices decided the risk to national security posed by its ties to China overcomes concerns about limiting speech by the app or its users.

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Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold a Law That Could Ban TikTok in the US On Jan. 19

The justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company’s connections to China override concerns about restricting speech.

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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.

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Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child sexual exploitation, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington

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.

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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.

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TikTok Creators Left in Limbo While Awaiting Decision on Potential Platform Ban

At the heart of the case is whether the law violates the First Amendment with TikTok and its creator allies arguing that it does.

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