If the proliferation of new social media platforms wasn’t enough to complicate the Internet landscape this week, a US district judge also dictated that federal government officials cannot contact employees at key social media platforms and Internet companies.
What is “most worrying” about Judge Doughty’s recent opinion, writes our D.C. Bureau Chief Chris Lehmann, is that “it upgrades the delusional precepts of the Twitter Files…into a de facto legal doctrine, while creating the very conditions for social media platforms to continue to handle the challenges of misinformation and lying in the dilatory fashion they strongly prefer.”
A Trump-appointed judge imposed limits on the Biden administration’s contact with online platforms, potentially opening the floodgates for unregulated misinformation.
Before she was a novelist, she covered crime and human interest for Mexican magazines. A collection of her nonfiction, This Is Not Miami,shows the building blocks of her fiction.
The recent protests sparked by the killing of a Black teenager are a response to a racist legacy that the French state virtually refuses to acknowledge.
A recent collection, The Call of the Tribe, explains why the Peruvian writer rejected the left and embraced the thinking of Friedrich Hayek and his ilk.