FAC told the Cypress City Council how a local ordinance restricting comment at council meetings violates freedom of speech.
“Critique of government is democracy, not defamation,” FAC Legal Director David Loy told city officials.
Law Professor David S. Ardia, SSRN, July 4, 2022, argues that the view that the market of ideas is self-regulating, that more speech will lead to truth has not been borne out in the new world of the internet and social media. Instead the public relies on information that confirms existing biases and circulates it with little regard for its veracity. Many use the internet to undermine democratic processes. Ardia proposes two new rights under
In fact-checking videos and articles on MSNBC and Fox News, Newsguard found that both failed to “gather and present information responsibly.” But MSNBC rated five points lower than Fox, cited for not publishing corrections and failing to disclose its liberal stance. MSNBC also did not identify website or network leaders. (PressGazette, July 22, 2022, by Bron Maher) For Poynter, February 1, 2021, Tom Jones warns against thinking that MSNBC is a mouthpiece for liberal politicians
Google received a letter from 17 Republican attorneys general warning the company to refrain from complying with Democratic legislators’ request to not direct people asking about abortions to anti-abortions centers. (Yahoo! News, July 21, 2022, by Kris Holt) Crisis pregnancy centers pretend to be abortion clinics but attempt to persuade pregnant women from getting abortions. On attorney general said if Google complied with the Democrat’s request, it would be “a grave assault on the principle