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Facebook has been sued by the international non-profit Reporters Without Borders organization over the spread of hate speech and disinformation, among other things. Reporters Without Borders announced the suit—filed with the public prosecutor in Paris—this week with a statement in which the social media platform is alleged to have engaged in “deceptive commercial practices” centered […]
A bill in Kentucky that advanced through the state’s Senate committee on Thursday would make it a crime to insult or taunt a police officer during a riot, the Louisville Courier-Journal reports. Senate Bill 211, or SB211, stipulates that anyone who “accosts, insults, taunts, or challenges a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words,” or […]
A federal lawsuit accusing Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Proud Boys, and Oath Keepers of conspiring to incite a violent riot at the Capitol on Jan. 6 has been filed by the NAACP and the civil rights law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll. The suit, backed by Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson and other members of […]
Kodak Black has been the recent recipient of a lot of good fortune. Now the rapper is paying it forward in the form of educational opportunities. On Sunday, Kodak visited Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, which was the site of a deadly mass shooting exactly three years prior. The rapper joined community members and local officials as they honored […]
A Texas lawyer’s inability to turn the cat-face filter off during a Zoom meeting forced him to clarify to a judge that “I’m here live, I’m not a cat.” In the process he also provided what is sure to be the most absurd clip you see all day: As you can see in the brief clip, […]
According to a new report by the BBC, drill music is increasingly finding its way into courtrooms around the UK. The report looked at 67 trials that took place across the UK from 2005 onwards, where drill and rap were used in evidence. Most of these cases were in the last two years, and many of them featured […]
A part of the massive 5,500+ page government funding/COVID-relief package that is expected to be passed through Congress in the next few days will include a legislative priority for the entertainment industry that will bump up the penalty for operating a for-profit illegal streaming service from a misdemeanor to a felony. Under the new law a violation of […]
A recent law school grad who was taking the bar exam in order to become a lawyer was complicated by the fact that her water broke mid-exam. She completed the test afterward. Brianna Hill, who just completed law school at Chicago’s Loyola University, took her bar exam last Monday, which lined up with her 38th […]
Nigeria’s Kaduna state passed a new law dictating that men who are convicted of rape can be castrated, the New York Post reports. Child rapists face the steeper punishment of castration and then execution. Women who are convicted of raping a child can be subject to the removal of their fallopian tubes. “Drastic penalties are required to help further […]
Joseph James DeAngelo, a 74-year-old former California cop known as “the Golden State Killer,” has now received multiple life-in-prison sentences. DeAngelo previously pleaded guilty back in June to 13 murder charges, as well as 13 rape-related charges, as part of a plea deal. Per the Associated Press, moments before his sentencing on Friday, DeAngelo—whose long-unsolved case […]
