First Amendment

TikTok sued the Biden administration in response to a new law that bans the video app in the U.S. unless it is sold in the next 12 months.

Legal experts say a TikTok ban without specific evidence violates the First Amendment

6:59pm May 14, 2024

by Bobby Allyn

The Justice Department is expected to argue that its clamp down on TikTok is about national security, but Constitutional lawyers say there is no way around grappling with the free speech implications.

Politics & Government

Supreme Court justices appear skeptical of Texas and Florida social media laws

10:37pm February 26, 2024

by Carrie Johnson

These cases raise a critical question for the First Amendment and the future of social media: whether states can force the platforms to carry content they find hateful or objectionable.

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The offices of the Marion County Record weekly newspaper sit across the street from the Marion County, Kan., Courthouse, Aug. 21, 2023, in Marion. The police chief who led the August raid on the small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, just days after he was suspended from his post, a City Council member confirmed Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.

National

The Kansas police chief who led the raid on a small newspaper has resigned

10:08pm October 02, 2023

by The Associated Press

Gideon Cody's resignation comes days after Cody was suspended for reasons that were not made public, and weeks after a prosecutor said that there wasn't sufficient evidence to justify the search.

U.S. is barred from combating disinformation on social media. Here's what it means

7:19pm July 05, 2023

Under a judge's new ruling, much of the federal government is now barred from working with social media companies to address removing any content that might contain "protected free speech."

The Onion head writer Mike Gillis submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court this week. He says he hopes it will convince the court to take up an Ohio man's First Amendment case while educating the broader public.

National

The man who wrote the Onion's Supreme Court brief takes parody very seriously

5:29pm October 04, 2022

by Rachel Treisman

The satirical site submitted a 23-page brief to the Supreme Court in support of a First Amendment case. Mike Gillis, The Onion writer who authored the brief, tells NPR why parody is worth defending.