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A judge has ruled that Alex Jones' far-right platform, Infowars, can be sold to help pay the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims. Last year, The Onion had won a court-mandated auction for Infowars' parent company but this was halted by a federal bankruptcy judge. This new ruling paves the way for The Onion to revive its bid. Jones has yet to pay a cent of the more than $1 billion in damages he owes Sandy Hook families for repeated defamatory claims that the massacre was a hoax. On his show on Wednesday, he railed against the families, but says he will keep broadcasting under a different brand. Here's more from @CNN.

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#Infowars#AlexJones#SandyHook#TheOnion#USLaw#Defamation#USNews
Flipboard News Desk
@NewsDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago

A judge has ruled that Alex Jones' far-right platform, Infowars, can be sold to help pay the families of Sandy Hook shooting victims. Last year, The Onion had won a court-mandated auction for Infowars' parent company but this was halted by a federal bankruptcy judge. This new ruling paves the way for The Onion to revive its bid. Jones has yet to pay a cent of the more than $1 billion in damages he owes Sandy Hook families for repeated defamatory claims that the massacre was a hoax. On his show on Wednesday, he railed against the families, but says he will keep broadcasting under a different brand. Here's more from @CNN.

https://flip.it/g7d1iE
#Infowars#AlexJones#SandyHook#TheOnion#USLaw#Defamation#USNews

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The Justice Department said earlier this week that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a client list. Here's Mother Jones' story from 2020 on what happened when journalist Leland Nally called every number in the disgraced financier's little black book, which has been circulating since 2009, when a former butler tried to sell it to lawyers representing Epstein's victims.

https://flip.it/MsSS.D

#JeffreyEpstein#USNews#PamBondi#USCrime#USPolitics
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Extremism “is fundamentally a local problem, magnified nationwide," says Dana Coester, founder of nonprofit newsroom 100 Days in Appalachia. “There’s more risk at the local level. You are accessible, you are visible, you are part of the community that you’re covering, and you don’t leave.” Columbia Journalism Review interviewed her and journalists from @TexasObserver, InvestigateWest, and more, about the threats local journalists face from far-right extremists.

https://flip.it/J7-uzV

#Journalism#LocalJournalism#Extremism#USNews#Media#MediaIndustry
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@Flipboard@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

Extremism “is fundamentally a local problem, magnified nationwide," says Dana Coester, founder of nonprofit newsroom 100 Days in Appalachia. “There’s more risk at the local level. You are accessible, you are visible, you are part of the community that you’re covering, and you don’t leave.” Columbia Journalism Review interviewed her and journalists from @TexasObserver, InvestigateWest, and more, about the threats local journalists face from far-right extremists.

https://flip.it/J7-uzV

#Journalism#LocalJournalism#Extremism#USNews#Media#MediaIndustry
Flipboard News Desk
@NewsDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp last month

The Justice Department said earlier this week that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a client list. Here's Mother Jones' story from 2020 on what happened when journalist Leland Nally called every number in the disgraced financier's little black book, which has been circulating since 2009, when a former butler tried to sell it to lawyers representing Epstein's victims.

https://flip.it/MsSS.D

#JeffreyEpstein#USNews#PamBondi#USCrime#USPolitics
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@NewsDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to keep Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. It's just one more restriction on health care for young trans people; twenty-five states ban hormone replacement therapy and puberty blockers for trans youth and of those, six have made it a felony for medical providers to administer gender-affirming care. @19thnews breaks down what the ruling does and doesn't cover, and how it might affect medical care for trans youth across the U.S.

https://flip.it/pifbGP

#Skrmetti#Tennessee#TransYouth#TransRights#TransRightsAreHumanRights#LGBTQ#USNews
Flipboard News Desk
@NewsDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled to keep Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for transgender youth. It's just one more restriction on health care for young trans people; twenty-five states ban hormone replacement therapy and puberty blockers for trans youth and of those, six have made it a felony for medical providers to administer gender-affirming care. @19thnews breaks down what the ruling does and doesn't cover, and how it might affect medical care for trans youth across the U.S.

https://flip.it/pifbGP

#Skrmetti#Tennessee#TransYouth#TransRights#TransRightsAreHumanRights#LGBTQ#USNews