Carolyn Cole, a Pulitzer-Prize winning staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times, has covered wars and other conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, Kosovo, Liberia, Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, and the U.S.-Mexico border. Over the course of her 30 year career, she has been seriously injured on the job precisely once when members of the Minnesota State Patrol pushed Cole over a
False speech that inflicts significant harm on American society may be best addressed through social and institutional change rather than through laws that regulate lies. That was a key takeaway from scholars and others at an April 8, 2022, symposium
This article is part of the Free Speech Project, a collaboration between Future Tense and the Tech, Law, & Security Program at American University Washington College of Law that examines the ways technology is influencing how we think about speech.
The Facebook Oversight Board has spoken: Trump will not be reinstated on Facebook, at least for another six months, until Facebook clarifies its rules and penalties, particularly as applied to public figures. In its long and thoughtful ruling the board cites international human rights law in detail. Most notably, it has declined to provide blanket political cover and legitimacy to Mark Zuckerberg’s Jan. 7 decision to deplatform the former president. Instead it has instructed the company to be more transparent and less arbitrary about how its rules are enforced, while also seeking to the extent that its limited remit allows to address the real harm that Donald Trump’s social media postings have caused.
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