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Apr 16 2024
News
Protests Can Trend On Social Media—Yet, Reactions Aren’t So Supportive
For months, large-scale protests around the world have sought to bring attention to the Palestinian cause. Such was the case on Monday, as protestors shut down San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, snarled traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, and even blocked traffic to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. "Peaceful protests—as we know—are protected by the First Amendment, and as
ForbesApr 10 2024
News
From Prof. Adam Candeub on the Texas Social Media Law
I'm glad to be able to pass along this item from Prof. Candeub (who has written extensively on this general subject): Similarly, under common carrier law, a legal category that predates public accommodations, firms that engage in the business of transmitting messages as part of an undertaking to provide carriage to everyone, such as letter and package carriers, telephones and telegraphs, must
ReasonApr 13 2024
News
Syrian State Media: Explosive Device Blows Up Car In Damascus
An explosive device detonated in a car in an upscale neighbourhood of Damascus, Syrian state media said on Saturday, quoting a police source. Security incidents, including blasts targeting military or civilian vehicles, occur intermittently in Damascus. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for the blast or who it targeted. But it came with tensions high in Syria's capital after
Barron'sMar 27 2024
Analysis
Trump Media is now a company. But is it a business?
Susquehanna International Group makes its money buying and selling stocks in milliseconds, eking out fractions of a penny each time. At one millisecond at the end of last year, its holdings included a 2% stake in a blank-check company that this week merged with Donald Trump’s social-media company.
That has fed theories that Susquehanna’s founder, Republican mega-donor Jeff Yass, is
SemaforJan 04 2022
Opinion
Corporate Media’s Jan. 6 Anniversary Coverage Is All About Silencing Republicans
Alengthy New York Times editorial over the weekend has set the stage for this week’s Jan. 6 anniversary coverage. “Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now,” declare the Times editors, warning that Republican lawmakers in 41 states “have been trying to advance the goals of the Jan. 6 rioters — not by breaking laws but by making them.”
The argument itself, that tweaking state election law is somehow a
The FederalistMar 20 2024
News
UE to host IBJ Media’s first Engage Indiana series
HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT)- The University of Evansville is set to Host Engage Indiana Southwest, an initiative dedicated to fostering economic prosperity across the state. The event will be held in the Ridgway University Center at Eykamp Hall on April 12. The Engage Indiana Series is a year-long, statewide series of events conducted in partnership with the Indiana Economic Development Corporation
WEHT/WTVWApr 18 2024
News
Jordan Rodell: Proposed social media legislation would undermine First Amendment protections
A new Minnesota proposal stands poised to follow Texas and Florida in violating centuries of First Amendment protections against government compelling or blocking speech. The proposed legislation raises similar concerns to cases the Supreme Court heard last month to block Texas and Florida social media laws on constitutional grounds. These bills (HF 4400/SF 4696) put Minnesotans at risk of
Pioneer PressApr 09 2024
News
Devil's Triangle And a Media Shame-Storm: An Interview With Mark Judge
Earlier this morning, I took an analytical look at media bias and progressive capture through the lens of Uri Berliner's mea culpa for NPR. Now we can take a much more personal look at those effects by speaking with one of its shame-storm targets. Mark Judge, a conservative culture writer, found himself one of the secondary targets of the efforts to destroy Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the
HotAirAug 20 2019
Opinion
Bernie Sanders has a smart critique of corporate media bias
Last week, after criticizing Amazon for underpaying its workers and paying nothing in federal income taxes last year, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) noted: “I talk about that all of the time. And then I wonder why The Washington Post — which is owned by Jeff Bezos who owns Amazon — doesn’t write particularly good articles about me.” The response was immediate. Martin Baron, The Post’s executive
Guest Writer - LeftApr 05 2024
News
How a social media feud led to a couple's murder
When police found Billy Payne and his fiancée Billie Jean Hayworth shot execution-style in a rural Tennessee home with their 7-month-old son Tyler alive in Hayworth's arms in 2012, it sparked an investigation that would lead them to discover a complex murder concocted by a woman who was in the middle of a social media feud. Jenelle Potter has been serving two concurrent life sentences for the
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