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Look, I get that the Opinion sections of major newspapers want to run a variety of opinions, and thus might do less fact checking than...
Tue, Jun 1st 2021 10:50am — Tim Cushing Polk County, Iowa prosecutors are making a name for themselves. And that name is "Enemy of the First Amendment." Earlier this year, Polk County prosecutor John Sarcone tried and failed to convict a Des Moines Register journalist for attending a protest and attempting to comply with conflicting orders from law enforcement. According to the prosecutor, journalist Andrea Sahouri failed to disperse when ordered to, even though other cops at the same scene were simply telling people to "protest peacefully." Sahouri was attempting to document the protest an...
Fri, May 28th 2021 10:23am — Mike Masnick The dumb takes on social media efforts to deal with problematic content keep getting dumber. Supposedly "conservative" commentator David Marcus has now written an opinion piece for Fox somehow arguing that fact checkers used on social media sites should be regulated. He's not the first to suggest this -- we just recently wrote about a Michigan legislator who was pushing an unconstitutional bill to regulate the fact checkers, but that this is the hill supposedly "conservatives" want to die on, seems particularly stupid. Fact checking is protected by ...
Texans lead the nation in the number of arrests for storming the U.S. Capitol in January...
Here's a small victory for the First Amendment and presumption of openness that's supposed to apply to court proceedings. A...