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Media Bias Alert: Center and Left Media Outlets Ignore GOP Report on Federal Government’s 2020 ‘Censorship’ Efforts

Bias / November 9th, 2023 / By Andy Gorel

This week, center and left-rated media outlets showed story choice bias by omission in their lack of coverage on a GOP-led Congressional committee report that claims government agencies, think tanks, Big Tech companies, and academics worked together to suppress views on social media — mostly those coming from conservatives — during COVID and before the 2020 election.

Media Bias Alert, Media Bias, AllSides, Jim Jordan, 1st Amendment, Matt Taibbi, Elon Musk, Online Censorship, Weaponization Of The Federal Government

Supreme Court Ends Session With Four Major Rulings

Story of the Week / July 6th, 2023 / By AllSides Staff

The Supreme Court wrapped up its session last week, but not before handing down rulings on election laws, Biden's student loan forgiveness program, First Amendment protections, and affirmative action.

Story Of The Week, Supreme Court, 1st Amendment, Free Speech, LGBTQ Issues, Affirmative Action, Student Loan Forgiveness, Elections

Misinformation Watch: Book Bans in the United States

Misinformation Watch / May 26th, 2023 / By Andy Gorel

Book restrictions have been a widely covered topic by outlets across the spectrum for quite some time now. However, coverage often tends to imply differently what a "book ban" really is, who's responsible for it, and how it affects availability of texts.

Culture War, Book Bans, Censorship, Free Speech, Polarization, 1st Amendment, Misinformation And Disinformation, Facts And Fact Checking

Joe Rogan and Whoopi Goldberg: Censorship, Misinformation Controversies Hit Both Sides

Story of the Week / February 3rd, 2022 / By AllSides Staff

Two media personalities sparked significant criticism this week for comments and content about hot-button issues.

Story Of The Week, Free Speech, Censorship, Whoopi Goldberg, Joe Rogan, 1st Amendment, Media Bias

Project Veritas and the mainstream media: Strange allies in the fight to protect press freedom

Recommended Reading / December 2nd, 2021 / By "The Conversation" Contributor

An FBI raid on Project Veritas leader James O'Keefe’s home in early November 2021 has sparked an unusual demonstration of support from the very establishment media that O'Keefe has spent his career targeting and trashing.

1st Amendment, Project Veritas

One Practical Step To Combatting Social Media's Problems

Recommended Reading / October 7th, 2021 / By John Gable, AllSides Co-founder

The government can update Section 230(c)(1) so that social media companies like Facebook no longer get special protection for content that they moderate, but can be held accountable.

Technology, Social Media, Free Speech, Media Bias, Big Tech, Censorship, Section 230, 1st Amendment

Story of the Week: Twitter and Trump Clash After Company Adds Warning Tag to His Tweets

Story of the Week / May 28th, 2020 / By Henry A. Brechter

Sign up here to receive the Story of the Week in your inbox every Thursday. President Donald Trump and Twitter are feuding over the president's tweets and the social media platform's vetting of them. The president plans to sign an executive order Thursday aimed at reducing liability...

Story Of The Week, Twitter, Technology, Social Media, Big Tech, Facts And Fact Checking, Free Speech, Donald Trump, Censorship, 1st Amendment

Project Veritas, CNN and the Ethics of Undercover Reporting

Bias / October 17th, 2019 / By Henry A. Brechter

On Monday, Project Veritas, a right-wing activist group that seeks to uncover media bias, began releasing videos that claim to reveal a paramount anti-Donald Trump bias within CNN. Videos present undercover recordings of CNN president Jeff Zucker telling employees to “stay focused” on...

Media Bias, CNN, Project Veritas, Donald Trump, Journalism, 1st Amendment, ABC News

Leave Comedy Alone

Recommended Reading / October 7th, 2019 / By Henry A. Brechter

Comedy’s recent return to the national spotlight — with new Netflix specials from Dave Chappelle and Bill Burr, and the oops-on-second-thought firing of recently-hired Saturday Night Live cast member Shane Gillis — has brought passionate attacks on offensive speech, sweeping defenses of...

1st Amendment, Free Speech, Comedy, Entertainment, Saturday Night Live, Media Bias

Bridging the Divide on Free Speech

News / January 18th, 2018 / By Billy Binion

Should all speech be protected? Is some speech too hateful for the public sphere? When it comes to free speech on campus, the left and right diverge on how to move forward. But is there common ground? This article is the first in a series representing a collaboration between The Saturday...

Free Speech, 1st Amendment, Education, News

Lawsuit against Trump raises question: Is the president's Twitter account a public platform?

News / July 19th, 2017 / By Grace Debusschere

Last month, we wrote about Twitter's new tools that help users censor their feeds, thus cementing partisan filter bubbles . This month, a lawsuit against President Trump takes that debate to the next level. The Knight First Amendment Institute , a free speech advocacy organization, is...

Donald Trump, Twitter, Censorship, 1st Amendment, Free Speech

Trademark Office's Hypocrisy Turns into a Victory for Free Speech

News / June 30th, 2017 / By Grace Debusschere

The Slants, an Asian-American dance-rock group, were initially denied a trademark by the US government. The grounds for the decision? The band name was deemed racially offensive. The term ‘slant’ is sometimes used as a racial epithet to disparage people of Asian descent. But even so,...

Free Speech, 1st Amendment, Supreme Court

Tolerating Opposing Voices Will Keep Our Spaces Safe

Bias / February 22nd, 2016 / By Beth Ballentine

What does freedom mean to you? Do you think we should be free to speak our minds, or do you think we should we be free from hearing opinions that insult our beliefs? Are you willing to give up the right to express yourself if others find your thoughts offensive? In a satirical short video...

Media Bias, Freedom, 1st Amendment, Free Speech, Missing Perspectives

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