By John Kruzel WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped making a decision on the legality of Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas designed to restrict the power of social media companies to curb content that the platforms deem objectionable. The justices unanimously threw out separate judicial decisions involving challenges brought by tech […]
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday sidestepped a final determination on whether Republican-backed laws in Florida and Texas that seek to regulate the content moderation practices of social media companies violate constitutional free speech protections. The justices instead sent the two related cases back to lower courts for additional deliberations on the legal questions […]
The U.S. Supreme Court has sent an important First Amendment case back to lower federal courts on Monday morning, meaning Florida will have to continue its years-long fight to defend a social media moderation law. That law, passed by lawmakers and approved by Gov. Ron DeSantis in 2021, barred social media platforms from suspending or […]
The US Supreme Court on Monday kept a hold on efforts in Texas and Florida to limit how Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube and other social media platforms regulate content posted by their users. The justices returned the cases to lower courts in challenges from trade associations for the companies. While the details vary, both laws […]
Alarm bells have been going off for some time about the harmful effects of social media on young people, everything from cyber bullying to body shaming to online predators and more. This year, at both the national and state levels, educators and lawmakers have been trying to convert their concerns into action. In California, a […]
A new report provides an update on the relationship between AEW and Warner Bros. Discovery, as AEW’s media rights are coming up later this year. Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful (via Fightful Select) reports that the two sides “look poised” to continue working together. A deal has not been announced yet, but Sapp writes that […]
Steve Bannon probably isn’t thrilled that the Supreme Court rejected his last-minute bid to avoid prison ― but a lot of other people are. Trump’s former adviser was convicted of contempt of Congress in October 2022 after he defied a subpoena by a House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection. He has spent the last […]
SEOUL (Reuters) -North Korea’s state news agency said in a one-line dispatch on Sunday there was “important news” but did not provide details. Leader Kim Jong Un is presiding over a key meeting of the ruling party to review the performance of the party in the first half of the year. In a separate report […]
One of the enduring themes of President Joseph Biden’s public life has been intense ambivalence about the elite institutions of American life and the well-credentialed, well-spoken, well-paid careerists who occupy them. There is resentment, from the so-so student with a stutter who grew up in Scranton and small-town Delaware and didn’t have the economic and […]
It seems that we should hear about AEW‘s new media rights deal with Warner Bros Discovery very soon. The ongoing negotiations between AEW and WBD have been a hot topic of conversation for well over a year now. Tony Khan stated on the Forbidden Door Media Call that they’re in the “red zone” and are […]
President Joe Biden’s debate performance was near-universally criticized. Media outlets and commentators described Biden’s performance as “disastrous” and “sad.” Here’s an overview of the media reactions to Biden’s bad debate performance. President Joe Biden’s historically bad debate performance on Thursday night was received so poorly that there’s serious talk among America’s commentariat that he could, or […]
US voters woke up to post-debate reviews of the first Biden-Trump debate with headlines that echoed Democrats’ anxiety that the incumbent president is too cognitively weak and physically frail to sustain another five months of political campaigning or another term in office. Those anxieties, multiple outlets reported, were being reflected in pressure from Democratic donors […]