President Trump "doesn't care" if he wins the lawsuits he's filed against newsrooms he doesn't like, FPF's Seth Stern told BBC. "The point is to intimidate and punish those he views as critical [of] him."
Trump vs the BBC: What hurdles might the president's legal argument face?
If he were to bring a defamation case in Florida, experts say he would need to prove three major components.
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Hear from FPF's Lauren Harper and others at Public Knowledge's "The People’s Oversight Hearing," a panel event about Congress’s abdication of its oversight duties and more. 📍 1200 U Street Northwest, Washington D.C. 🕒 Wednesday, Nov. 12 at 9 a.m. EST RSVP:
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If Senate Republicans think tech giants with billions in the bank and armies of lawyers are susceptible to pressure from a censorial government, doesn’t it go without saying that so are individual journalists who lack anything close to those resources?
Freedom of the Press
If Big Tech can’t withstand jawboning, how can individual journalists?
Scrutiny of soft pressure is welcome, but should be focused on the real victims
ICE isn’t letting the government shutdown stop it from tearing apart communities. So FPF won’t let a shutdown stop us from suing to force transparency. Our latest FOIA suit gets at the heart of ICE’s efforts to restrict congressional access to its detention centers.
Freedom of the Press
FPF takes ICE to court over dangerous secrecy
FOIA lawsuit targets ICE’s efforts to stop congressional oversight of detention facilities
“If you are an immigration official or an agent and believe ... that your records could help you be held accountable, would you go out of the way to preserve those records that might expose wrongdoing?” Lauren Harper told the New York Times.
To Preserve Records, Homeland Security Now Relies on Officials to Take Screenshots
Experts say the new policy, which ditches software that automatically captured text messages, opens ample room for both willful and unwitting nonco...
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent Check out this story by Michelle Zenarosa in Poynter:
Poynter
When your local reporter needs the same protection as a war correspondent - Poynter
Five months of covering ICE raids taught our small LA newsroom hard lessons — and we're still figuring out how to sustain it
YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions" Read more in this @npub18gnu...g0a2 story by Nikita Mazurov and Jonah Valdez
The Intercept
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
From the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker: Chicago journalists and press groups won a preliminary injunction on Thursday, extending restrictions on federal agents’ violent tactics in response to protests outside an ICE facility in Illinois.
U.S. Press Freedom Tracker
Journalist shot with pepper balls at Illinois ICE facility protest
Journalist Raven Geary was shot in the face and shoulder with pepper balls by federal officers while reporting on protests …
“It is fundamentally the right thing to do.” Watch: Katie Drummond, from @npub14lpy...ujhu, Joseph Cox from @npub1n6lz...zmz9, and Freedom of the Press Foundations’ Lauren Harper discuss why FOIA-based reporting should be free.