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Free Speech Win Down Under as Misinformation Bill Is Officially Binned

Free Speech Win Down Under as Misinformation Bill Is Officially Binned

In a win for free speech advocates, the Australian Government formally abandoned its misinformation bill. The proposed laws would have forced social media companies to show that they were preventing the spread of misinformation and disinformation on their platforms.

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Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience

Nosferatu in the Wake of the Covid Experience

Bram Stoker’s classic Dracula (1892) was written as a Victorian-style moralizing tale of sin and its consequences. The novel would become a bestseller largely due to its lascivious imagery and terrifying plotline that fed into every anxiety over morality, science, and public health, much less kick off a century and a quarter of vampire films.

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