Five takeaways from a meandering Trump news conference

WASHINGTON—President-elect Donald Trump aired plenty of grievances with the courts during a wide-ranging news conference from Mar-a-Lago Tuesday, swinging from topics like energy to foreign policy on the day after the certification of the 2024 election. Though he opened the news conference by welcoming Hussain Sajwani, the CEO of a Dubai-based development company DAMAC Properties,…

EFF Statement on Meta’s Announcement of Revisions to Its Content Moderation Processes

In general, EFF supports moves that bring more freedom of expression and transparency to platforms—regardless of their political motivation. We’re encouraged by Meta’s recognition that automated flagging and responses to flagged content have caused all sorts of mistakes in moderation. Just this week, it was reported that some of those “mistakes” were heavily censoring LGBTQ+…

FIRE’s defense of pollster J. Ann Selzer against Donald Trump’s lawsuit is First Amendment 101

It is hard to imagine a legal claim that violates basic First Amendment principles more thoroughly than does President-elect Donald Trump’s lawsuit against veteran Iowa pollster J. Ann Selzer and The Des Moines Register.  His civil lawsuit arises from a poll published before the November 2024 election that predicted Vice President Kamala Harris in the…

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Trump special prosecutor temporarily blocked from releasing report on probe

Washington —  A U.S. judge temporarily blocked Special Counsel Jack Smith from releasing a report on his investigations into President-elect Donald Trump for his mishandling of classified documents and attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, a court order showed on Tuesday. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who presided over the now-dismissed case accusing Trump…

Trump blasts ongoing ‘lawfare’ in first public remarks since Congress certified his election

President-elect Donald Trump railed against the ongoing “lawfare” against him in his first public remarks since Congress certified his decisive election win over Vice President Kamala Harris.  “They’re playing with the courts, as you know, they’ve been playing with the courts for four years. Probably got me more votes because I got the highest number…