Former president Donald Trump is suing the Washington Post for $3.78 billion claiming the Post defamed them by reporting that Truth Social platform may have committed securities fraud. An article alleged that the company concealed details from the Securities and Exchange Commission about a proposed merger. (The Independent, May 23, 2023, by Bevan Hurley) Defamation lawyer Camron Dowlatshahi said that Trump would have difficulty making the case the requires a showing of actual malice given

Greg Sargent, The Washington Post, May 17, 2023, reports that those against censorship are organizing to counter the right wing’s book banning. A Florida lawsuit filed by parents in federal court seeks a halt to book banning in their school libraries. The parents want their children exposed to ideas that the district thinks are harmful to children. Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times, May 19, 2023, describes how Lindsay Durtschi, one of the parents in