Clay Calvert Comments on Colleges’ Rescinding Admissions Due to Racial Social Media Posts

Saturday July 4, 2020

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “College Rescinding Admissions Offers as Racial Social Media Posts Emerge” published in The New York Times on July 2.

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Clay Calvert Comments on Fact Versus Opinion in a Defamation Lawsuit

Friday June 26, 2020

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in media critic Erik Wemple’s column “The Recklessness of Tucker Carlson” published in The …

Clay Calvert Comments on the Ability of Public Universities to Rescind Admissions Offers

Wednesday June 24, 2020

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “Can’t Act on Posts, Says Chief at UAFS” published in the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette …

Clay Calvert Comments on Racist Online Posts and Real-World Consequences

Thursday June 18, 2020

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “Students, Others Forwarding Racists Online Posts for Public Shaming, Real-World Consequences” …

Clay Calvert Comments on Offensive Tweets and First Amendment Protection

Friday June 12, 2020

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “A North Carolina Professor Who Sparked Outrage with His Tweets Still Has His Job. Why? It’s …

Herbert Lowe and Clay Calvert Comment on Racist Social Media Posts

Friday June 5, 2020

Herbert Lowe, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Journalism lecturer, and Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project, were quoted in “UF Probes Social Media Posts Seen as Racist” published in The …

Clay Calvert and Jasmine McNealy Comment on Trump’s Executive Order Targeting Social Media

Wednesday June 3, 2020

Clay Calvert, University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project director, and Jasmine McNealy, Brechner associate director and CJC Telecommunication associate professor, were quoted in “Trump Wants to …

Clay Calvert Comments on Twitter’s New Fact-Check Policy

Friday May 29, 2020

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “Twitter Applies Trump Fact-Check Standard to Twitter Official Who Blamed Pandemic on U.S. …

Clay Calvert Comments on Fox News Lawsuit and Trump’s Threat to Regulate Social Media Platforms

Thursday May 28, 2020

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “Seattle Judge Throws Out COVID-19 ‘Hoax’ Suit Against Fox News” published in the Times of San …

Clay Calvert Comments on Consequences for Workers Who Resist Wearing Face Masks

Wednesday May 20, 2020

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “Refusing to Wear a Mask at Work Could Get You Fired” published in Bloomberg Law on May 20. The …

Clay Calvert Comments on Fox News Lawsuit and the First Amendment

Tuesday May 19, 2020

Clay Calvert, director of the Marion B. Brechner First Amendment Project at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, is quoted in “Powerful Cable-TV, Reporter Groups Side with Fox News in Lawsuit” published in the Times of San …