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Feb 19 2024
Opinion
Trump’s $355 Million Civil Fraud Verdict
Donald Trump and his business were found liable Friday of inflating asset values in paperwork to lenders, but given that nobody lost money, this punishment smacks of political overkill. In a 92-page ruling, New York Judge Arthur Engoron ordered him to pay $355 million, while also banning him from being an officer for any New York corporation for three years.
The judge had previously
Wall Street Journal (Opinion)Dec 14 2020
Opinion
Meltdown over 'Doctor' Jill Biden a preview of media servility toward Biden
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal published a piece by Joseph Epstein, the octogenarian essayist, arguing that Jill Biden ought not use the honorific "Doctor" in everyday use. Her Doctor of Education degree, he asserted, should not confer the same regard as a medical doctor.
Epstein's clearly comedic designation of the 69-year-old career educator as a "kiddo" and his unnecessary
Washington ExaminerJul 29 2019
Opinion
These two legal reforms could end social media censorship for good
With every censored post, suspended account, or banned user, conservative and liberal populists renew their calls to regulate social media giants. They often make arguments from a monopolistic standpoint, that Big Tech companies have grown so large as to constitute public forums and, therefore, users have a constitutional right to access platforms free from viewpoint discrimination.
To
Guest Writer - RightMar 04 2024
News
Tumbleweeds Take Over Small Town In Western-Worthy Video
Tumbleweeds took over a small town in Salt Lake County, Utah, over the weekend, resembling scenes from a Western film. Videos on social media show thousands of tumbleweeds making their way through neighborhoods in South Jordan on Saturday after a winter storm, according to 2KUTV. City officials urged the public to dispose of the plants in their “tumbleweed-only” dumpsters. South Jordan
The Daily CallerDec 08 2020
News
U.S. Media Readers 'Strongly Prefer Negative Stories About COVID-19'
Why are Americans so prone to wallowing in despair? A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) doesn't have an answer to that question, but it does provide plenty of evidence that the phenomenon is real: U.S. major media coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic has been much more negative than in other English-speaking parts of the world, in large part because of reader
ReasonMar 04 2024
News
Threats against East Lansing synagogue land man federal prison sentence
GRAND RAPIDS — A former Lansing-area man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for threatening violence against Jewish people. Seann Patrick Pietila, 20, of Pickford, received his sentence in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan Monday after pleading guilty in November to a count of transmitting a threatening communication in interstate or foreign
Yahoo NewsMar 04 2024
News
Threats against East Lansing synagogue land man federal prison sentence
GRAND RAPIDS — A former Lansing-area man has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for threatening violence against Jewish people. Seann Patrick Pietila, 20, of Pickford, received his sentence in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan Monday after pleading guilty in November to a count of transmitting a threatening communication in interstate or foreign
Lansing State JournalAug 23 2019
News
Why Anthony Scaramucci is waging a media war on President Donald Trump
A friendship between President Donald Trump and one of his formerly most vocal advocates has taken an almost-Shakespearean twist.
Anthony Scaramucci was once an ardent Trump supporter. He enjoyed a fleeting 11-day stint as the president’s White House communications director and as recently as Aug. 8 on CNBC applauded “the president’s courage for going after these issues,” referring to a
MarketWatchSep 08 2021
News
Revealed: LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop
The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they interview, including individuals who are not arrested or accused of a crime, according to records shared with the Guardian.
Copies of the “field interview cards” that police complete when they question civilians reveal that LAPD officers are instructed to
The GuardianDec 10 2020
News
Normalization of vaccine misinformation on social media amid COVID 'a huge problem'
Social media posts containing vaccine misinformation not only have increased since the pandemic began, they're more likely to coexist alongside less extreme content, effectively normalizing them and possibly delaying wider acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine, experts told ABC News.
Analysts with Graphika, a firm that tracks social media misinformation, said that members of the anti-vaccine
ABC News (Online)