“Deep fakes” that rely on computer-generated trickery may soon play such havoc with political campaigns that the prospect is raising serious concern among Maine’s senators and many of their colleagues.
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Commentary: Meta can’t dodge controversy on Threads forever
Restricting searches on terms like ‘COVID’ is a flawed response to the challenge social platforms face balancing public safety and free expression.
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Commentary: Kansas restaurant owner’s cockeyed complaint about paper doesn’t justify venom
Besides adding to the general toxicity and sense of aggrievement, it only makes the martyred recipient more convinced.
Posted inNation & World, News
Kansas reporter files federal lawsuit against police chief who raided her newspaper’s office
Marion County Record reporter, Deb Gruver said in a statement that by filing her lawsuit ‘I’m standing up for journalists across the country.’
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The initial online search spurring a raid on a Kansas paper was legal, a state agency says
The raid on the Record put it and its hometown of about 1,900 residents at the center of a debate about press freedoms protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and Kansas’ Bill of Rights.
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Kansas police, small newspaper at center of 1st Amendment fight after newsroom raid
While a restaurant owner accused the newspaper of unlawfully seeking information on the status of her driver’s license, the newspaper countered that it received that information unsolicited, which it verified through public online records.
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Police face criticism for raiding central Kansas newspaper, seizing phones and computers
The newspaper plans to sue the police department and possibly others, its publisher and co-owner said and called the raid an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment’s free press guarantee.
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Augusta officials look to ban hate-speech and other offensive materials from buildings in public view
City councilors cold to proposal to regulate murals, but direct city attorney to recommend changes to city regulations to ensure hate symbols and other offensive images or words can’t be placed on building walls visible to the public.
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Judge limits Biden administration in working with social media companies
The lawsuit alleged that the federal government overstepped in its efforts to convince social media companies to address postings that could result in vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic or affect elections.
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Commentary: Maine must stop trying to bypass Supreme Court decision on schools
The outcome in Carson v. Makin made clear that such religious discrimination in our education system must end. Why hasn’t it?