UK Bill Could Chill Online Speech with Criminalization Threat: Report

Catherine Salgado
November 3rd, 2021 5:10 PM

Free speech advocates beware! A new bill out of the United Kingdom would reportedly criminalize internet trolling that is deemed to cause “likely psychological harm.”

 

Lefty Writer Offer Bribe For Someone to Ask Trump About Fake Country

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Corinne Weaver
January 15th, 2018 11:49 AM
American journalists have decided to take a page out of a Russian troll’s book, in order to build their own narrative. Jezebel contributor and purported comedian Sara Benincasa tweeted out on January 13 that she would offer $300 to “the journalist who very seriously asks Trump his opinion on our nation’s relations with Wakanda and gets the question and answer recorded live on video.”   
 

Journalists Give Trump ‘Award’ for ‘Undermining Global Press Freedom'

Kyle Drennen
January 9th, 2018 2:57 PM
In a bitter attempt to smear President Trump as a dictator, on Monday, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) placed the American commander-in-chief on a list filled with authoritarian leaders that the organization labeled the world’s worst “press oppressors.”
 
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CNN Media Panel: Trump Is Leading World Dictators on Press Crackdown

Nicholas Fondacaro
December 17th, 2017 4:36 PM
If you thought CNN’s open anti-Trump hysteria couldn’t get any wilder, then buckle up, because at the end of Reliable Sources on Sunday host Brian Stelter led a segment dedicated to press crackdowns by dictators and how the President’s “fake news” call-outs were helping them. Stelter began the segment with a monologue about the case of “award-winning Mexican journalist, Emilio Gutierrez, and his…
 

Columnist: Trump an Enemy of the Media, Just Like Hugo Chavez

Tom Johnson
February 24th, 2017 5:19 PM
Almost fifteen years ago, South Park paid tribute to a trailblazing animated TV series by calling an episode “The Simpsons Already Did It.” According to Columbia Journalism Review columnist Joel Simon, regardless of the current hubbub over President Trump’s media-bashing, several “Latin American populist” heads of state, including the late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez, already did it, or…
 

Committee to Protect Journalists Denounces 'Chilling Effect' of Rosen

Kyle Drennen
May 21st, 2013 3:53 PM
In statement released on Tuesday, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, Joel Simon, issued this warning against the Obama Justice Department investigating Fox News reporter James Rosen: "U.S. government efforts to prosecute leakers by obtaining information from journalists has a chilling effect domestically and sends a terrible message to journalists around the world…