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  • Turning Twitter into a 'free speech' haven might not be as easy as Elon Musk thinks

    Turning Twitter into a 'free speech' haven might not be as easy as Elon Musk thinks

    Apr 26, 2022 02:31 PM EST

    ... experience in moderating an influential social media platform will be a problem if he successfully takes over the company."If we want to protect free speech online, then we can't live in a world where the richest person on Earth can just purchase a platform that millions of people ...

  • What Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter may mean for the company and free speech

    What Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter may mean for the company and free speech

    Apr 25, 2022 10:53 PM EST

    Elon Musk and Twitter announced a $44 billion deal Monday for Musk to buy the company and take it over. The deal would be the largest to take a public company private in decades. It's also led to major concerns about how Musk, who is one of the world's richest men, will approach questions of...

  • EU deal will push Google, Facebook, others to police platforms against hate speech, disinformation

    EU deal will push Google, Facebook, others to police platforms against hate speech, disinformation

    Apr 23, 2022 02:13 PM EST

    European Union officials clinched the agreement in principle on the Digital Services Act after lengthy final negotiations that began Friday. The law will also force tech companies to make it easier for users to flag problems, ban online ads aimed at kids and empower regulators to punish noncompliance with billions in fines.

  • Supreme Court reject Texas college official's claim that censure violates free speech rights

    Supreme Court reject Texas college official's claim that censure violates free speech rights

    Mar 24, 2022 05:57 PM EST

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Thursday against an elected public college official in Texas who complained that his colleagues' censure of his actions violated his free speech rights. The justices had stepped into a yearslong dispute between the Houston Community College board of trustees and one of its ...

  • WATCH: Sen. Ben Sasse questions Jackson about Supreme Court cameras, free speech on campus

    WATCH: Sen. Ben Sasse questions Jackson about Supreme Court cameras, free speech on campus

    Mar 23, 2022 09:27 PM EST

    Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on March 23 as the Judiciary Committee continued its Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Sasse questioned her about how her views as a judge have evolved, public trust in the high court, how she sees the issue of free speech on ...

  • WATCH: Ukrainian President Zelensky pleads for help from Canada in speech to parliament

    WATCH: Ukrainian President Zelensky pleads for help from Canada in speech to parliament

    Mar 15, 2022 05:47 PM EST

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked Canadians to imagine bombs landing in their communities as urged the nation to apply great economic and military pressure on Russia — including a no-fly zone over his country.

  • Nationwide effort to ban books challenges freedom of speech

    Nationwide effort to ban books challenges freedom of speech

    Mar 10, 2022 11:30 PM EST

    ... left. Is our country now politicized in this way, in the way we look at books? Suzanne Nossel: Yes, I worry that sort of free speech is losing its grounding on both the right and the left. On the left, we see a lot of people, and particularly in a ...

  • 7 key takeaways from Biden's 2022 State of the Union speech

    7 key takeaways from Biden's 2022 State of the Union speech

    Mar 02, 2022 04:18 AM EST

    President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address was likely going to focus inward, looking at the economic and public health woes besetting the U.S. But Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the war that has ensued changed all that.

  • Sarah Palin lawsuit against The New York Times challenges free speech protections

    Sarah Palin lawsuit against The New York Times challenges free speech protections

    Feb 11, 2022 11:40 PM EST

    The boundaries of the U.S. Constitution and freedom of the press are being deliberated in Manhattan, as a jury considers Sarah Palin's libel case against The New York Times. It centers on a 2017 Times' editorial about dangerous rhetoric and political violence. Deanna Paul, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was in the courtroom for...

  • Read Biden's full speech marking anniversary of Jan. 6 attack

    Read Biden's full speech marking anniversary of Jan. 6 attack

    Jan 06, 2022 10:12 PM EST

    President Joe Biden is accusing Donald Trump and his supporters of holding a “dagger at the throat of democracy."

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