Intellectual Freedom News 8/27/2021
Highlights
Censorship
- Gillette residents: move — don’t remove — controversial library books | Wyoming News Exchange
- High School Is Accused Of Censorship As Officials Rip Out Yearbook Pages On The News | NPR
- Chelsea school board votes to keep Toni Morrison book in library despite uproar | Michigan Live
- Congressional candidate Derrick Van Orden confronted teen library staffer over Gay Pride display | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- Under New Super, Westfield School Board Agrees to a Curriculum Audit on Diversity | TAP into Westfield
- North Carolina Lt. Governor claims teachers are promoting “cutting off male genitalia” to kids | LGBTQ Nation
Privacy & Cybersecurity
- Federal government to expand use of facial recognition despite growing concerns | The Washington Post
- Opinion: We built a system like Apple’s to flag child sexual abuse material — and concluded the tech was dangerous | The Washington Post
- Privacy of Streaming Apps and Devices: Watching TV That Watches Us | Common Sense Media
More privacy news is available at the Voices for Privacy blog.
First Amendment, Free Speech, & Civil Liberties
- School mask mandate ban challenged in new Utah lawsuit | Federal News Network
- Perspective: Can the First Amendment Protect Educators from Being Fired for Teaching About Race? | Freedom Forum
- Alert: American Civil Liberties Union sues over South Carolina law that bans school districts from imposing mask mandates | Westport News
- U.S. Supreme Court Again Declines to Hear Same-Sex Wedding Vendor Appeal | Lexology
Social Media
- Incoming Ohio bill targets social media platform ‘censorship’ | Mahoning Matters
- Ohio Republican wants to stop Facebook, Twitter from ‘censoring’ their users | Columbus Dispatch
- On TikTok, Misogyny and White Supremacy Slip through ‘Enforcement Gap’ | NextGov
Journalism & Media
- Democrat-Gazette ends online comments on news articles | Arkansas Times
- Judge spars with Justice Department over media protections | Politico
- Q&A: Gina Masullo on local news, conservative audiences, and trust | Columbia Journalism Review
- How Local Newsrooms Can Better Connect with Conservative and Right-Leaning Audiences | Center for Media Engagement, University of Texas at Austin
Information Literacy & Disinformation
- A Harvard professor predicted COVID disinformation on the web. Here’s what may be coming next | Boston Globe
- Facebook says post that cast doubt on covid-19 vaccine was most popular on the platform from January through March | The Washington Post
- Looks Authentic: The Aesthetics of Conspiracy | Columbia Journalism Review
- A mathematician walks into a bar (of disinformation) | TechCrunch
- Twitter blocked and labeled Donald Trump’s tweets on election fraud. They spread anyway. | USA Today
- Battling the Infodemic: As Disinformation and Lies Snowball Online, How Do We Avoid Being Crushed? | Cleveland Scene
- The challenge of detecting misinformation in podcasting | Brookings
International News
- Professor’s ‘Comfort-Women’ Lecture Gets Him Indicted–And Sparks Debate on Academic Freedom | The Wall Street Journal
- Hong Kong to amend law to step up film censorship | ABC News/Associated Press
Around the Web
- Eloise Greenfield, Who Wrote to Enlighten Black Children, Dies at 92 | New York Times
- NCAC Objects to PBS Censorship of LGBTQ+ Children’s Program | National Coalition Against Censorship
- James W. Loewen, Who Challenged How History Is Taught, Dies at 79 | The New York Times
- Indianapolis Public Library CEO Steps Down in Response to Allegations of Systemic Racism | Library Journal
- Anti-LGBTQ+ ‘Infowars’ Host Charged in Capitol Riot | Yahoo! News
- Man Photographed as Baby on ‘Nevermind’ Cover Sues Nirvana, Alleging Child Pornography | Variety
- National Forum to Explore Comics in Education | SDSU News Center
- A Rare Discovery on the Seventy-fifth Anniversary of John Hersey’s “Hiroshima” | The New Yorker
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