Why Romania’s election was annulled – and what happens next?: Romanian courts rule that their presidential election was too contaminated with social media manipulation, Russian interference, cyber attacks and illegal funding to stand.

Artificial Irony: Misinformation Expert’s Testimony Has Fake Citations: Via unchecked ChatGPT usage.

Rape trials collapse as victims abandon cases amid long court delays: Some of the measures designed to improve the experience for complainants may have backfired.

Elon Musk’s basic misunderstandings of free speech are a problem for all of us: Firstly that the First Amendment applies to private businesses, and secondly that even if it did that it would prevent social networks taking down sexually explicit pictures that were released without the subject’s consent.

Federal Court Blocks Louisiana Law Mandating Posting Of Ten Commandments In School Classrooms: Turns out not everyone believes that the US separation between church and state should be destroyed quite so blatantly.

Texas AG Declares War On Advertisers Who Snub Musk’s ExTwitter: Ken Paxton seems to want to make it illegal to not give Elon Musk money.

What are the key issues in the assisted dying bill debate?: Things to think about as the UK vote on legalising assisted dying draws closer.

Fears grow over UK children at risk placed in illegal care homes: Many children subject to Deprivation of Liberty orders are being locked up in wholly unsuitable places.

Congress About to Gift Trump Sweeping Powers to Crush Political Enemies: A bill which enables the treasury secretary to unilaterally declare that any non-profit supports terrorism.

The AI-Generated Product Reviews Choking the Internet Are Now Illegal: The FTC makes certain types of fake reviews illegal, whether human or robots wrote them, in the US.

The United States of Abortion Mazes: Access to abortion in each US state visualised as an interactive maze.

Abortion rights: Amnesty International on access to abortion being a human right.

10 Things to Know About Abortion Access Since the Dobbs Decision: Some of the impacts of the overturning of Roe vs Wade in the US.

The ‘Internet of Things’ helping to provide key evidence in criminal trials: The Crown Prosecution Service’s take on the utility of our data-gathering gadgets.

Ban smacking in England now, says children’s commissioner: Proposal to ban smacking one’s child in England, similarly to existing Scottish and Welsh legislation.

When therapy goes wrong: the problem of underqualified practitioners: Far more people should see therapists, but it is wild that there’s technically nothing to stop anyone claiming to be one.

Undercover police officer admits spying on Keir Starmer when he was a barrister: I’d maybe have been more actively excited about Starmer in his ‘radical barrister’ phase of life.

Representation of the People Act 1948: The act that abolished the right of some people to vote twice in UK general elections amongst other things.

Cannabis legalisation could be worth £9.5 billion per year to the UK: It’s astonishing and absurd to me that you can still go to jail for cannabis possession here in the UK.