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April 1, 2024
One legal expert is telling Americans that abridgment, not coercion, is the standard in a landmark free speech rights case.
Philip Hamburger, a Columbia University legal scholar and CEO of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, took on what he argued is…
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December 22, 2023
As Big Tech censorship continues unabated, a new study has found that Americans — particularly conservatives — are increasingly self-censoring.
Reason reported on Dec. 12 about data published in June in Political Science Quarterly showing the…
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January 24, 2023
An ongoing lawsuit alleging Big Tech-government collusion led to the unveiling of “The Facebook Files,” a trove of documents exposing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s sordid influence over Facebook and Instagram’s bloated censorship…
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August 24, 2022
The Babylon Bee Editor-in-Chief Kyle Mann told Reason Editor-at-Large Nick Gillespie why his company has refused to delete the infamous tweet that got it kicked off Twitter.
Twitter gave The Babylon Bee the boot in March when it tweeted out a…
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August 9, 2019
What should campaign funding disclosure levels be in an internet age and outrage culture, where publicization of giving can quickly turn into harassment?
It’s a question The New York Times raised after Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) tweeted out…
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August 10, 2017
ABC News learned that sliming a company can cost a lot of money. An attorney for Beef Products Inc. told CNN Money, BPI was awarded more than $177 million in the settlement of its defamation lawsuit against ABC because its beef was called “…
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July 5, 2017
The broadcast networks have refused to cover the conclusion of a massive defamation case involving one of their own.
ABC News and Beef Products Inc (BPI) reached a confidential settlement which concluded a 5-year-old lawsuit as of June 27. BPI…
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June 14, 2017
Editor’s note: Some readers might be offended by the language below.
The defamation case Reuters called a “trial of a lifetime,” between Beef Products Inc. and ABC over the network’s coverage of its lean finely texture beef…
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June 8, 2017
A case with huge implications for journalists and speech began on June 5, and the three broadcast networks ignored it.
Perhaps because it is one of their own — ABC — which is being sued for its biased attacks on one company’s…
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July 8, 2016
Hillary Clinton’s proposal to spend $350 billion on “affordable” tuition may have been outrageous, but at least it provoked some poignant comments on the pitfalls of big government.
On July 6, Clinton proposed eliminating tuition…