An excerpt from the >16,000-word opinion written by Commissioner Paul Stein in Abasciano v. Boston Police Dep’t, decided last month by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Civil Service Commission, though just posted on Westlaw: The substantive issue presented in this appeal is whether certain tweets sent by the Appellant on January 6, 2021, while attending the so-called “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington, D.C., constituted substantial misconduct that warranted his termination as a Police Officer in the Boston Police […]

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A late mea culpa: “After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote nonstop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy,” Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said yesterday in a video posted to Facebook and a message posted to Threads. Referring to Meta’s trust and safety team tasked with content moderation, he said: “We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth, but the fact-checkers have just been […]

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