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DARE: Bipartisan Senate Group Wants to Formally Blame Saudi Crown Prince for Journalist’s Killing

News DigestDecember 6, 2018

Bipartisan Senate coalition moves to formally assign blame for Khashoggi killing on Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Facebook comes under new fire as... More

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DARE: Global moment of silence planned today to honor Capital Gazette shooting victims

News DigestJuly 5, 2018

News organizations unite behind moment of silence this afternoon to remember Capital Gazette shooting victims. More

DARE: Trump Reverses Course, Signs Order Ending His Policy of Separating Families at the Border

News DigestJune 21, 2018

Protests spanning Congress, civil society, Hollywood, the tech industry, airlines, and others prod Trump to reverse stance on separating migrant families and issue new Executive Order halting future separations.… More

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DARE: Clinton: No surprise Trump is joking about throwing reporters in jail

News DigestApril 23, 2018

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, delivering the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture to cap PEN America’s World Voices Festival, speaks out about threats to press freedom around… More

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DARE: Zuckerberg Apologizes, Promises Reform as Senators Grill Him over Facebook’s Failings

News DigestApril 11, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg opens congressional testimony with acknowledgment that the social media platform has responsibility for content posted by users, turning aside a long-time contention to the contrary that has… More

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DARE: YouTube shooting: Female suspect ‘angry over video postings’

News DigestApril 4, 2018

Person who opened fire at YouTube headquarters reported to have believed video site was censoring her. President Trump, who has not held a solo news conference since February 2017,… More

DARE: Sinclair-owned TV station chooses not to air media bias promo

News DigestApril 3, 2018

Debate rages over Sinclair Broadcasting's forced recitation of an anti-mainstream news mantra by local anchors, with one station openly rebelling and President Trump tweeting his support for the right-leaning… More

DARE: Georgia Republicans honor their threat to punish Delta for cutting ties with NRA

News DigestMarch 2, 2018

Georgia lawmakers approve bill stripping tax break benefiting Delta, making good on threat issued after the company dropped discounted fares program for NRA members. More

DARE: Trump’s FCC Paves Way for Media Consolidation

News DigestNovember 17, 2017

The vote marks the latest in a series of controversial moves from the FCC under Pai. The agency is also looking to roll back net neutrality protections, and endorsed… More

DARE: Twitter finds hundreds of accounts tied to Russian operatives

News DigestSeptember 29, 2017

Twitter presents to closed-door meetings of Senate and House intelligence committees in widening probe into how Russian operatives used social media and other digital platforms to spread disinformation and… More

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Educational gag orders represent a serious threat to the very academic autonomy that has allowed for so much intellectual discovery at our institutions. Read the op-ed in @Newsweek by @ACEducation's Ted Mitchell and @PENamerica's @SuzanneNossel.
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