Blake Lively & Ryan Reynolds Aim To Have Justin Baldoni’s $400M Defamation Suit Tossed Out
With the first actual hearing in the multi-million dollar lawsuits between It Ends With Us co-stars Blake Lively and Justin ...
Social media without fact-checking will destabilize the Global South
In my home country of Bangladesh, in the wake our country’s revolution, we have been the victim of a concerted disinformation ...
Australia’s social media ban shows how extreme the technology debate has become – there’s a better way
The recent decision by the Australian government to introduce a ban on social media for under-16s has been received with both ...
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Ownership of Twitter and Facebook is a Big Deal, Who Would Have Known?
I’m always happy when something I and others have been talking about for years makes it to the New York Times. For that ...
Who Will Stand Up to Trump’s Broligarchs?
As Elon Musk and his billionaire brethren take power in Trump’s second term, the lack of legal guardrails — and the fading ...
Student Whose Racy Social Media Posts Riled a College Gets $250,000 Settlement
The University of Tennessee threatened to expel Kimberly Diei over posts the school said were inappropriate. She sued on ...
A judge tosses social media star Yashar Ali’s defamation case against LA Magazine
Journalist and social media influencer Yashar Ali had his defamation lawsuit against Los Angeles Magazine tossed out by an ...
Top NYPD officials faulted by investigators for ‘demeaning' social media posts
A new report from an independent police monitor has found that two high-ranking NYPD officials violated department policy by ...
High-ranking NYPD officials posted 'deeply troubling,' 'unprofessional' remarks on social media, report finds
According to the city's Department of Investigation, a number of postings on X were not only unprofessional in tone but also ...
Immunity does not shield Trump from $83M defamation judgment, Carroll's attorney argues
Presidential immunity does not protect Donald Trump from having to pay E. Jean Carroll tens of millions of dollars for ...
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Pulitzer Board Flips To Use Trump’s Legal Playbook Against Him in Defamation Case
The Pulitzer Board is flipping Trump's own legal arguments on their head in an attempt to pause his defamation lawsuit ...
Opinion
More activism, less credibility: What CNN’s defamation loss says about journalism today
CNN has been ordered to pay $5 million to Navy veteran Zachary Young and additional punitive damages for defamation, marking a shift in media standards and a decline in ratings.