Sarah Gotfredsen

2 weeks ago | cjr.org | Sarah Gotfredsen

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A growing number of news reports indicate that travelers heading to the US are facing scrutiny at the border, with some subjected to electronic-device searches. US Customs and Border Protection that such searches aim to identify violations—say, drug trafficking or terrorist activities—and that just 0.01 percent of international travelers will be subjected to them.

4 weeks ago | cjr.org | Sarah Gotfredsen

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Once again, lawmakers are threatening to strip tech companies of their legislative sword and shield. Section 230, also known as the twenty-six words that made the internet, is a small section of the Communications Decency Act that protects social media platforms from legal liability when making decisions around users’ posts.

1 month ago | cjr.org | Sarah Gotfredsen

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR‚Äôs daily newsletter. Elon Musk‚Äôs Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has taken unprecedented steps to slash the federal bureaucracy, all but dismantling entire agencies and firing thousands of workers while claiming to have saved the federal government over a hundred billion dollars‚ÄĒ even if, critics say, that calculation doesn‚Äôt remotely hold up.

1 month ago | cjr.org | Sarah Gotfredsen

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Aisvarya Chandrasekar contributed research assistance. When Elon Musk acquired Twitter, now known as X, he made deep cuts into the platform’s moderation efforts. Gone was the election integrity team and about a third of its trust and safety staff. But one effort was allowed to stay: Community Notes, the platform’s crowdsourced fact-checking system, which now bears the full responsibility of correcting misleading information on X.

2 months ago | cjr.org | Sarah Gotfredsen

Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. Two weeks ago, when the new administration instructed agencies to scrub content related to “gender ideology” from government websites, federal workers scrambled to comply, temporarily, and in some cases permanently, taking pages offline so that they might be monitored for language related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.