Eleventh Circuit judges ruled Florida's HB3 minor-account limits likely pass First Amendment review under intermediate scrutiny. The panel found a burden on speech yet called the law content neutral, because it sorts platforms by their features.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 16%
- Operator
- Operator 63%
- Investor
- Investor 21%
Reality
- Evidence80
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives40
- Confidence78
Disney, ABC and eight owned stations sued the FCC and Brendan Carr in Washington, asking a judge to stop an early license review before it becomes a hearing.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 7%
- Operator
- Operator 59%
- Investor
- Investor 34%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence68
Trump posted the ban on Friday, and by Saturday morning CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters were being turned away from the White House grounds. Politico says the Secret Service kept its reporter's pass.
Reality
- Evidence78
- Adoption80
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives70
- Confidence76
White House confiscates hard passes from three newsrooms in one morning
CNN, MS NOW and Politico say their credentials were taken at the gate the day after Trump said he would remove them. The two comparable cases in his first term ended with federal judges ordering the passes back.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives70
- Confidence55
Fewer Americans named free speech as a First Amendment right in Annenberg's 2026 survey
The share naming all three branches of government held at 65%, the same figure as 2024, and the one item that moved significantly in the 1,034-person sample was freedom of speech, cited by 73% after 79% a year earlier.
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives60
- Confidence62