Summary:
WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge on Tuesday restricted some agencies and officials of the administration of President Joe Biden from meeting and communicating with social media companies to moderate their content, according to a court filing. The injunction came in response to a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who alleged that U.S. government officials went too far in efforts to encourage social media companies to address posts they worried could contribute to vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic or upend elections.
A White House official said the Justice Department was reviewing the order and will evaluate its options.
The litigation was originally filed by former Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.
The injunction was first reported by the Washington Post.
Afraid it is, links to it are even blocked by several subreddits. With reuters they give you a small number of free reads per year and then block you after that. Usually I end up getting a nag screen that can’t be bypassed, but some links like yours don’t even load the page, they simply give a blank screen.
Regardless, thanks for posting the article. And my comment wasn’t directed at you specifically, there are a LOT of posts I’m seeing all over lemmy where people just post a link and a title, but absolutely no content to even suggest (other than the title) what the post might be about. And they always seem to have zero comments, which I assume is because most people aren’t willing to click through.
I do like that the original source is used so that it’s clearly visible when scrolling past the headline. It helps prevent tabloid headlines from having the same weight as legitimate news outlets since you can quickly tell where it came from. However, I am also getting into a habit of also including an archive link in the post body as well. I don’t think I’ve ever been paywalled on Reuters, though it may also be a regional thing; I browse it semi-regularly.
When I post news, I’m hit or miss whether I put the whole article text in the post or not as I’m always worried about the instance host getting a copyright complaint. lol.
Oh I agree, the source SHOULD be included as the post URL. I typically click into the post first and then click the article link, so that if I want to comment on what I read then I don’t have to try to find the post in my feed again. But for posts like this I come in and see a blank post, click the link and get a blank page, and at that point I have zero information about what’s going on and I’ve generally lost all patience with the topic. Honestly I don’t even care so much about the entire article being pasted here, I just wish people would at least put in a short summary or something.
Lemmy server is supposed to get the article metadata when processing the submission which usually has a short summary and the image, but it doesn’t always work. From my observations, it seems to depend where the Lemmy server is hosted and how the news source handles/identifies bot activity. e.g. some Lemmy instances hosted in cloud servers get blocked by the source’s website as bot traffic and are unable to get the article metadata.
Sorry. It loaded right up for me. I’m guessing I have not hit the article limit yet.
Added in a summary from TLDRThis.