Take some time to read this story from Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen, which highlights the breadth of the Biden administration's corporate crackdown. It's also the result of years of reporting and a lawsuit! Go Leah.
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Partisan groups -- some backed by dark money -- are poised to file a record number of election-related cases this year, pushing the courts to the center of the election process.

A look at the money and why experts are concerned w/ Bill Allison:
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New media funding model just dropped: provide advance copies of reporting to investors who can act on it before it's made public twitter.com/hntrbrkmedia/s…

NEW: ~300 current + former Apple workers, many of them in retail, published an open letter alleging that the company has disciplined or “wrongfully terminated” workers for expressing support for the Palestinian people
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I spent most of 2014 compulsively taking Adderall while ‘investigating’ Adderall. Wrote about that experience, and some of what I learned, for Broadcast. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/club…

US House passes the TikTok divestment bill. The furthest a TikTok-focused bill has gone in America.

Were reported TikTok plans to fight this legally if it finally becomes a law. A divestment would be the last resort.

After 10 years of trying, a Palestinian woman had twins. An Israeli strike killed them both apnews.com/article/israel…

‘Cold-blooded massacre’: More than 100 Palestinians have been killed and some 700 others wounded after Israeli troops opened fire on hundreds waiting for food aid southwest of Gaza City, health officials say. Official death toll since 10/7 passes 30,000. aje.io/ce6ff4

Aaron Bushnell, age 25, succumbed to his injuries after he set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in DC. His last words were 'Free Palestine'.

Justices wary of entirely striking down Texas, Florida laws Emily Birnbaum Greg Stohr report
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Berin Szóka 4/ Need a quick-and-dirty primer on the cases? I spoke to Emily Birnbaum for this one. It's good and I recommend. Features people who know what they're talking about, including Daphne Keller and Anupam Chander.

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'You are almost certainly not using your grandmother’s phone to call your friends, her toaster oven to cook, or her typewriter to function at your desk job,' Anna Kramer writes. 'Yet the stand mixer endures.' theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

The stats are clear:

NetChoice has brought free speech challenges against six states over social media laws since 2021. It's won five injunctions at the district court level.

The firm's revenue jumped ten fold in that time from $3 million in 2020 to $34 million in 2022.

States trying regulate social media cos.--from limiting content screening to pushing children's safety standards--keep running into a DC lobby serving as Big Tech's courthouse attack dog: A @Blaw deep dive, Isaiah Poritz, Emily Birnbaum and Tonya Riley. news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/supreme…

emerging from a long hibernation to say it's my first week at NPR! working on ATC for the next little while. send me things to consider: kfink at npr dot org.

NEW: Emily Birnbaum Isaiah Poritz and I took a deep dive into the behind-the-scenes of how NetChoice became big tech's go-to litigation center ahead of its oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court next week.
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Rafah is under attack without warning by airstrikes and gunfire, according to several journalists there. This is the where Israel pushed people to since the beginning of the invasion. Around 1.2 million people - half of all of Gaza - are displaced and densely living there.