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Ex-CNN Reporter Warns First Amendment Is Under ‘Significant Political Pressure’ As Network Is Kicked Out of Pentagon Office

  • The Government is putting significant political pressure on the First Amendment, according to former CNN correspondent Barbara Starr, as the Pentagon evicted CNN from its office space.
  • The United States has fallen from 17th to 55th in the World Press Freedom rankings out of 180 nations since 2002, reflecting declining public trust in the media, partly due to decades of right-wing propaganda.
  • The Pentagon's changes in media representation aim to diversify journalistic voices, but critics argue this is a move to silence dissent against the administration.
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Trump’s rapid obliteration of the First Amendment is fit for a king

Government attacks on press freedom from Mississippi to the Oval Office have our First Amendment rights on the brink of collapse.

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Did Facebook Conspire With the Government to Censor Speech in Violation of the First Amendment? Case Could Redefine Social Media Censorship

WASHINGTON, DC — The Rutherford Institute is calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to hold Facebook accountable for conspiring with the government to censor and suppress speech and address Facebook censorship issues. Weighing in before the U.S. Supreme Court with an amicus brief in Children’s Health Defense v. Meta, The Rutherford Institute argues that Meta Platforms should be held accountable as a government actor for violating the First Amendment …

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Ex-CNN Reporter Warns First Amendment Is Under ‘Significant Political Pressure’ As Network Is Kicked Out of Pentagon Office

Former longtime CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr warned free speech for journalists was under “significant political pressure” Thursday as she posted an image of the network’s longtime office being cleaned out. CNN and other “legacy” media outlets have been “rotated” out of their physical workspaces as part of a new Defense Department directive. The Pentagon has claimed its making changes to which outlets have physical space at the Penta…

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Call for Participation: Federal Funding and the First Amendment

In the first few weeks of his second term, President Trump has issued a wave of executive orders attempting to place conditions on how recipients of federal funding appropriated by Congress can speak and associate. The orders have targeted diversity programs, Black History Month, human rights advocacy, anti-war speech, and the use of disfavored pronouns. Some of these orders have already been challenged on First Amendment grounds; many other cour

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