by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 21, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
In May of 2021, the Biden Administration began a public, coordinated campaign to combat the dissemination of “health misinformation” related to Covid, especially across social media platforms. Members of the Administration, including Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 27, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
The Biden administration began a public, coordinated campaign last May to combat dissemination of “health misinformation” related to COVID-19, especially across social media platforms. Administration officials, including Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and President Joe...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 1, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Jenin Younes, Opinion
The Biden administration’s increasingly aggressive efforts to combat so-called misinformation, along with the prospective acquisition of Twitter by free speech advocate Elon Musk, have sparked a national debate about what role, if any, the government should play in...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jul 20, 2022 | Jameson Payne, Opinion
I. Introduction On May 29th, 1919, British researchers operating out of Principe and Sobral, Brazil, tested a simple proposition: whether, during that day’s total eclipse, the light of stars proximate to the sun would be deflected, thus distorting their observed...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 21, 2022 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
What will be the fate of free speech in the United States? The answer is coming soon from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Netchoice v. Paxton. Last year, Texas protected free speech from Big Tech censorship by passing a statute finding that the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 22, 2021 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
The public school system weighs on parents. It burdens them not simply with poor teaching and discipline, but with political bias, hostility toward religion, and now even sexual and racial indoctrination. Schools often seek openly to shape the very identity of...
