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‘REBELLION’?: Courts Weigh Oregon, Illinois Arguments Against Trump’s National Guard Deployments

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Two federal courts heard arguments Thursday about President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to quell unrest near U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities in Portland, Oregon, and Chicago. “The district court found that the Portland ICE facility protests were small—less than 30 people—largely sedate and generally peaceful,” Oregon Assistant Attorney General Stacy Chaffin told the three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The hearing was held remotely by video.  Two of the judges, Ryan Nelson and Bridget Bade, are Trump appointees. Another judge, Susan Graber,…

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What Will 2022 Bring In The Way Of Misinformation On Social Media? 3 Experts Weigh In

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<p class=”is-style-sans-serif”><em>At the end of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for misinformation on social media, given the intensity of the presidential election and the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. But 2021 proved up to the task, starting with the Jan. 6 insurrection and continuing with copious amounts of falsehoods and distortions about COVID-19 vaccines.</em></p> <p class=”is-style-sans-serif”><em>To get a sense of what 2022 could hold, we asked three researchers about the evolution of misinformation on social media.</em></p> <div style=”height:50px” aria-hidden=”true” class=”wp-block-spacer”></div> <div class=”wp-block-tpm-separator undefined TpmSeparator”></div> <h2>Absent regulation,…

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