Texas anti-SLAPP bills risk chilling consumer speech
Lawsuits that suppress speech hurt the public and business, Public Citizen Litigation Group attorney Paul Levy told us.
The enduring press freedom legacy of Max Frankel
The death of the New York Times journalist and editor is a reminder that the fight against excessive government secrecy must live on.
Tech giants must protect reporter-source privacy in leak cases
Leak investigations are back. Here’s what tech companies can do to defend freedom of the press
Florida lawmakers want online news outlets to self-censor
Supposedly pro-tort reform legislature invites frivolous lawsuits against the press
Celebrate the truth. Don’t weaken Texas anti-SLAPP law
Speaking the truth shouldn’t subject you to drummed-up lawsuits, endless legal proceedings, and potentially bankrupting legal fees, journalist Charles Ornstein told us
‘Fox & Friends’ no friends to free press
Recent comments by ‘Fox & Friends’ co-hosts that police should ‘go after’ a journalist for reporting the news are as shortsighted as they are wrong
Hands off Texas anti-SLAPP law
We asked a SLAPP defendant and her lawyer to explain how proposed changes to Texas law could harm consumers and free speech
Secret U.K. spy order imperils press freedom
By demanding a back door into end-to-end encrypted iCloud data, the U.K. undermines journalist-source confidentiality
Trump attacks oversight, Dems attack whistleblowers
If Snowden is a traitor, what should we call all the intelligence officials who broke the law to spy on Americans and lied about it?
Tech companies platform the First Amendment
Substack and Amazon Web Services’ First Amendment defense of journalist Jack Poulson should be a model for other platforms
