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DARE: Facebook Lets Deepfake Zuckerberg Video Stay on Instagram

News DigestJune 12, 2019

A ‘deepfake’ video of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg emerges—and is left up on Instagram—as Congress prepares for its first hearing on the potential... More

DARE: Publisher: Trump effort to stop book ‘flagrantly unconstitutional’

News DigestJanuary 9, 2018

MacMillan publishing CEO John Sargent fires back at Trump, echoing PEN America's conclusion that the White House's cease and desist letter targeting Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury was "flagrantly… More

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Free expression organization @PENamerica released a letter signed by more than a dozen other civil liberties organizations opposing federal legislation and proposals that seek to impose a wholesale ban on social media platform TikTok in US .

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jodipicoult Jodi Picoult @jodipicoult ·
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The superintendent says this ban of NINETEEN MINUTES and 13 other books not a ban. Explain to me how permanently REMOVING a book from a library shelf is not a ban? https://twitter.com/PENamerica/status/1641517467976474641

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Yes. ND gov: "The teaching profession is challenging enough without the heavy hand of state government forcing teachers to take on the role of pronoun police." https://thehill.com/homenews/3926656-north-dakota-governor-vetoes-bill-restricting-transgender-students-pronouns/

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