First Amendment under attack

MS Now - When immigration agents arrested Tufts University graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk last year over an op-ed she wrote for the campus newspaper, they weren’t just targeting her; they were sending a signal to student journalists everywhere that their First Amendment rights are under attack, writes student journalist Eli Thompson. Öztürk’s lawyers say a judge ended her deportation proceedings this week, but the threat to student journalism remains, as the Trump administration has targeted campus magazines and other college-aged reporters. Read more.

NY Times - The Department of Homeland Security is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.

In recent months, Google, Reddit, Discord and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, have received hundreds of administrative subpoenas from the Department of Homeland Security, according to four government officials and tech employees privy to the requests. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests, the government officials said. In the subpoenas, the department asked the companies for identifying details of accounts that do not have a real person’s name attached and that have criticized ICE or pointed to the locations of ICE agents.