Julie Hilden, an attorney with a special interest in First Amendment law, recently took the New York courts somewhat to task for their lax standard in the case involving Rosemary Port and Liskula Cohen. She writes, in part: But could any reasonable person have read this material and truly believed, with any degree of confidence,…
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First Amendment, TechCrunch, and Twitter docs
There’s an interesting debate afoot about TechCrunch‘s decision to publish selected documents it received from someone who hacked into the email accounts of Twitter CEO Evan Williams and other Twitter employees. There’s already been some good coverage of the journalism ethics side of the debate, but I wanted to weigh in with some detail on…
AP Issues Strict Facebook, Twitter Guidelines to Staff
The Associated Press is adopting a stringent social-networking policy for its employees, informing them to police their Facebook profiles “to make sure material posted by others doesn’t violate AP standards.” The policy (.pdf) comes weeks after an AP reporter was reprimanded for posting a comment to his own Facebook profile criticizing the Sacramento-based newspaper chain…