Published on January 11, 2024
Defamation, Journalism, legal, libel
![Professor Loses Lawsuit Against Student Newspaper AND MUCH MORE! – In The News – 01/11/2024 Professor Loses Lawsuit Against Student Newspaper AND MUCH MORE! – In The News – 01/11/2024](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/pexels-evan-velez-saxer-7417701-e1704998786307.jpg)
MORE: AP journalists watched Hamas lynchings, kidnappings and urged civilians to join; Most parents favor age restrictions on books in school libraries; When news outlets choose sides; IDF has bombed Al Jazeera, and will continue to do so…for good reason; Court says museum can keep painting looted by Nazis’; Canada tells people posting videos of porch pirates that THEY can get into trouble!; and University of Illinois retracts offensive letter
Published on December 15, 2023
Censorship, copyrights, legal, plagiarism
![And, Now, the Evening News With…Some Robot – In The News – 12/15/2023 And, Now, the Evening News With…Some Robot – In The News – 12/15/2023](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/plagiarism-7597846_640.png)
MORE: Inside the United Nations’ plan to limit free speech; Harvard President NOT fired after multiple accusations of plagiarism; Singer apologizes to fan after fan sued for $250K for copyright infringement; Journalists who “lie like hell”; When and how the New York Times lost its way; Meet the American who scripted A Christmas Story; Prince Harry ordered to pay the Mail £50,000; and A financial news site uses AI to copy its competitors.
Published on December 8, 2023
amazon, Censorship, Journalism, legal
![Amazon Remains Silent on Its Own Engineer Being Held by Hamas – In The News – 12/08/2023 Amazon Remains Silent on Its Own Engineer Being Held by Hamas – In The News – 12/08/2023](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/charlesdeluvio-K4mSJ7kc0As-unsplash-1-e1702058843447.jpg)
MORE: Experimental doctor seduced journalist to mask deadly surgeries; Feds cracking down on Christians and the First Amendment. Will YOUR church be next?; Bezos’s newspaper employees walk off the job; UPenn donor withdraws $100M donation after president’s congressional testimony on antisemitism; and The Assistant AG for Civil Rights at the DOJ has ZERO awareness of major First Amendement case set to be heard by the Supreme Court.
Published on December 1, 2023
Censorship, legal
![Could Your Kid Be Be More Successful by NOT Attending College? – In The News – 12/01/2023 Could Your Kid Be Be More Successful by NOT Attending College? – In The News – 12/01/2023](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Disney-e1701363953920.jpg)
MORE: Actor threatens moms at book awards ceremony; Sports reporter admits she made up sideline reports; AI technology being used to scam people out of billions; Daryl Hall granted restraining order against John Oats; Kyle Rittenhouse releases book; Disney admits going woke has hurt their bottom line; Sports Illustrated parent company blames third party for publishing AI-generated articles on its site; Book about royals pulled from shelves; and White House worked with YouTube to censor Covid-19 and vaccine information.
Published on November 18, 2023
amazon, Censorship, legal
![Amazon Driver Caught Stealing Packages, Selling Goods Online; and much more! – In The News – 11/18/2023 Amazon Driver Caught Stealing Packages, Selling Goods Online; and much more! – In The News – 11/18/2023](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/censorship_1700320651.jpg)
MORE: Our tax dollars are supporting bigoted, discriminatory college campuses; Authors says adults and teachers are influencing students’ protests against Israel; IDF forces found a copy of Hitler’s antisemitic work “Mein Kampf” in a child’s room of a home in Gaza with terrorist’s notes in it; Scarlett Johansson sues after AI uses her likeness and voice; Boss of the American Federation of Teachers blamed for rise in homeschooling’; YouTube requiring disclosure of AI-generated content; Finnish lawmaker wins another ‘hate speech’ case over quoting the Bible; NewsGuard’s for-profit censorship model; and Should Google have to pay news organizations for links and snippets?
Published on November 10, 2023
amazon, Censorship, Journalism, legal
![Should journalists stand by and take pictures while a massacre occurs? – In The News – 11/10/2023 Should journalists stand by and take pictures while a massacre occurs? – In The News – 11/10/2023](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/israel_1699646984.jpg)
MORE: Celebrity’s audiobook is 48 hours long!; The original story of The Exorcist; Literary legend haunted a hotel for 50 years before leaving; NYT is hiring an AI Editor; Should journalists stand by and take pictures while a massacre occurs?; Jewish journalist in NYC gets bodyguard due to threats; Yale student’s pro-Israel column was edited in school paper; New York Times writer resigns over letter accusing Israel of genocide; Kirk Cameron helps launch nationwide school program to provide wholesome children’s books; Newspaper workers sues, said he was laid off because he’s white; Amazon has laid off 27,000 people this year!; and Amazon hit with another class action lawsuit over refunds on returned products
Published on October 20, 2023
Artificial Intelligence (AI), copyrights, Journalism, legal, libel
![First 2 Hostages Released by Hamas are Related to MSNBC Reporter – In The News – 10/20/2023 First 2 Hostages Released by Hamas are Related to MSNBC Reporter – In The News – 10/20/2023](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/al-aqsa-mosque-1262789_640-e1697725582713.jpg)
MORE: AP reporter ripped Israel on social media; 11 journalists killed in the war so far; Office supply store bans customer who warned parents of graphic books; Scholastic to separate books on race, gender and sexuality for book fairs; Tennis star Serena Williams gets 2 book deal; Blood libel when reporting on the war; and Law firm files defamation suit in dispensary legal battle; Newspapers want payment from ChatGPT; and Another AI lawsuit concerning music
Published on October 14, 2023
complaints, Complaints about specific publishers, copyrights, legal, Print on demand, self-publishing
![HORRIBLE! Infinity Publishing / FastPencil is CEASING Book Publishing & Is CHARGING TERMINATED AUTHORS for Their Book Files! HORRIBLE! Infinity Publishing / FastPencil is CEASING Book Publishing & Is CHARGING TERMINATED AUTHORS for Their Book Files!](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/pissed_off_1697235301.jpg)
Would YOU have invested money in a company with THESE numbers? I can’t believe a firm with only four employees (at that time) had that much debt!!!
Published on October 14, 2023
amazon, Censorship, diversify your writing income, legal
![One Writer Using Substack Has Made Over $1M – In The News – 10/14/2023 One Writer Using Substack Has Made Over $1M – In The News – 10/14/2023](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/flag-186476_640-e1697240317260.jpg)
MORE: CBC leaked emails instructed reporters not to call Hamas fighters “terrorists”; Can an author force a school district to purchase his/her book?; LeVar Burton replaces Drew Barrymore as host of National Book Awards; Spotify to publish audiobooks but apparently agents and authors were not notified; and Book business applauds government lawsuit against Amazon.
Published on October 6, 2023
author, book marketing, Censorship, legal
![Only 3,000 copies?! The NYT Bestseller List is a JOKE! – In The News – 10/06/2023 Only 3,000 copies?! The NYT Bestseller List is a JOKE! – In The News – 10/06/2023](https://writersweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/tingey-injury-law-firm-yCdPU73kGSc-unsplash-e1696538629528.jpg)
MORE: Supreme Court to decide if states can stop social media companies from censoring users; Professor who threatened journalist with machete pleads guilty; Drew Barrymore’s writers refused to go back to work after strike; Swiss writer gets 60 days prison for insulting someone; and Biden agency ‘likely’ violated free speech by working with Big Tech to censor election content