Highlights

• Brooklyn Public Library president says now is “a time to act” in fight against book bans | The Hill
• Author of Data Cartels on intellectual freedom and our digital rivers on fire | Choose Privacy Every Day

Censorship

• Over 20 books challenged at Thomas County Public Library | WALB (GA)
• Local libraries grapple with efforts to censor children’s books | WXXI (NY)
• Nixa parents ask for nine more books to be removed from the high school library | Springfield News-Leader (MO)
• Madison Schools, aiming to clear up confusion, says ‘All American Boys’ is not banned | Citizen Times (NC)
• Pennsylvania teacher is probed after bringing copy of Gender Queer book into class | News Colony Media (PA)
• Election door hangers attacking St. Charles school, library districts popping up around city | Kane County Chronicle (IL)
• Public library defunded over LGBTQ themes going back to voters. See the book challenges filed. | Michigan Live (MI)
  • Michigan town library defunded over LGBTQ books loses vote again, may close | Bridge Michigan (MI)
  • Patmos Library millage fails again in Jamestown Township | Holland Sentinel (MI)
  • Michigan residents vote to defund public library again over LGBTQ books | The HIll
• Jonesboro area voters approve effort to defund public library | Arkansas Times
• Abilene Public Library board tables request to move, reclassify or remove 30 books | Abilene Reporter-News (TX)
• HCS adds committee positions to review possible ‘inappropriate’ material in library books | WPDE (SC)
• Letter: Inappropriate books allowed in Cody schools | Cody Enterprise (WY)
• Parents hold book fair after school district banned ‘Scholastic Books’ over content concerns | NBCDFW (TX)
• Parents decry book on gender identity | Altoona Mirror (PA)
• Wake County library under scrutiny for adding transphobic book to collection | Indyweek (NC)
• Princeton library panel addresses book banning | PrincetonInfo (NJ)
• RCAS to sell books once marked ‘to be destroyed’ | Argus Leader (SD)
• City Council to consider request on disputed library books | Kerrville Daily Times (TX)
• Ohio library responds to public asking to remove LGBTQ book displays and materials | WTRF (OH)
• Hilliard parents call on school leaders to review and remove some books from libraries | ABC6 (OH)
• City council to consider request on disputed library books | Kerrville Daily Times (TX)
• ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ sparks debate at Escambia County School Board meeting | ABC3 WEAR TV (FL)
• Spruce Mountain school board votes to keep books about gender, race in high school library | Fox23 (ME)
  • Two contested books will stay in Spruce Mountain High School library | Kennebec Journal (ME)

Privacy & Cybersecurity

• Science fiction got surveillance all wrong | Atlantic
• California’s new child privacy law could become national standard | Pew
• Data privacy is different for Gen Z | Morning Consult

First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties

• Lawsuits filed after [PA] Supreme Court says mail-in ballots without dates will not count | Yahoo! News
• Law firms step up voting rights fight in tomorrow’s midterms | Bloomberg Law
• Lawsuit refiled against Duval Schools over gender instruction law | WJCT News (FL)
• School board member under fire after quoting Hitler on social media | WKRC (CO)
• Election officials combat voter intimidation across U.S. as extremist groups post armed militia at some polls | CNBC
• Newsom sued over COVID ‘misinformation’ law that doctors say tramples First Amendment rights | FOX News
• ACLU of Delaware launches First Amendment guide for LGBTQ students | Delaware Public Media
• Bible verse on high school property raises First Amendment concerns | Jewish Press of Tampa Bay
• No First Amendment right to record government investigations, Sixth Circuit rules | Courthouse News Service
• First The Onion is teaching people First Amendment law, now this? | Above the Law

Legislation

• Florida adds more homophobic censorship laws to ‘Don’t Say Gay’ suite of bills | Prism
• Republicans introduce a bill to make it a felony to perform drag shows in Tennessee | Daily Kos

State and Local Governance

• Republicans are using attacks on queer people and libraries to rally voters | VICE
• DBRL board expected to discuss Jay Ashcroft’s proposed book-challenge rule | Columbia Daily Tribune (MO)
• Conservative politics drive fight for control of Indiana’s school boards | WFYI
• Anti-CRT, pro-charter PAC money floods school board and State Board of Education campaigns across Texas | Texas Standard
• In heated N.J. school board race, things get physical | NJ.com
• Texas Republicans against ‘critical race theory’ win seats on the State Board of Education, strengthening its GOP majority | Texas Tribune
• Anti-CRT, pro-parental rights candidates win seats on Hamilton County school boards | Chalkbeat Indiana
• ‘Parental rights’ anti-CRT supporter wins school board seat in Augusta County | Staunton News Leader (VA)
• Conservative, ‘anti-CRT’ school board candidates sweep in HSE, pick up seat in Carmel | IndyStar (IN)
• Book challenger one of three newcomers elected to school board; Barnette only incumbent to win | Hickory Record (NC)
• Library funding dominates discussion on Marathon County 2023 budget | Wausau Pilot and Review (WI)
  • County budget meeting discussions turn heated | WAOW News (WI)
• Voters in Norwin, South Greensburg support library funding | Trib Live (PA)

Journalism & Media

• An update on Homeland Security intelligence reporting on me | Lawfare

Social Media

• Worries grow that TikTok is new home for manipulated video and photos | New York Times
• Why Andrew Tate is banned from almost every social media platform | CNET
• When free speech cost $8: Musk’s Twitter censorship is going about as you’d expect it to | Above the Law
• Big Tech braces for Republican investigations over censorship | Bloomberg Law

Information Literacy & Disinformation

• How you can avoid disinformation about election vote counting and the results | NPR
• How Republicans fed a misinformation loop about the Pelosi attack | New York Times
• This is how fast disinformation spreads | Gizmodo
• The new normal of election disinformation | NPR
• Election skeptics are winning races across the country | New York Times
• After election, cautious optimism that few false narratives took hold | New York Times
• Opinion: Here’s the sad truth about election-related disinformation | Washington Post
• After election, disinformation battle continues | Voice of America
• The conservative bias panic comes for Gmail’s spam detection | Lawfare

International

• Turkey could use a new law, purporting to combat disinformation, to silence dissent | NPR
• Lawmakers say EU isn’t tackling phone surveillance scandal | Washington Post
• Greece to ban sale of spyware after government is accused of surveillance | New York Times
• Senator Alex Antic accuses ABC of ‘grooming’ kids after drag queen Courtney Act appeared on program Play School | Sky News Australia
• China’s digital yuan works just like cash–with added surveillance | WIRED

Around the Web

• Op-Ed: Why book bans and voter suppression go hand in hand | Los Angeles Times
• How ‘education freedom’ played in the midterms | New Yorker
• Brooklyn Public Library president says now is “a time to act” in fight against book bans | The Hill
• Preparing for a new fight against book bans | Index on Censorship
• What is Moms for Liberty? Group hoping to win 270 school board elections | Newsweek
• Boise woman says transphobia likely triggered her attack at the downtown library | Boise State Public Radio
• US governor [Youngkin] shut a ‘critical race theory’ complaint hotline because they didn’t get enough complaints | Business Insider
• ‘Channeling the mama bear’: How Covid closures became today’s curriculum wars | New York Times
• Jones College Prep students plan walkout to protest principal’s response to goose-stepping student in German uniform on Halloween | CBS Chicago
• Take books off the shelves, ask questions later? That’s un-American, unconstitutional | The State (SC)
• California district loses half of its student teachers after banning critical race theory | KAKE (CA)
• In one Va. school board race, a microcosm of LGBTQ identity politics | Washington Post
• Why school board seats may be the hottest races on your midterm ballot | TIME
• Teachers dismayed by ‘sexualization of children in schools’ event | Gillette News Record (WY)

ALA News

• Fiona Rae Brown Named 2022 Core/OCLC Spectrum Scholar
• Supporting data-driven research and instruction
• AASL Commends The Conscious Connect, Inc.
• Core Webinar: Ditching Dewey and Genre-fying Fiction

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