WIH+: TikTok’s Long Odds, Coppola vs. Variety, & Murdochology

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Hello and welcome back to What I’m Hearing+, your Diddy-free legal supplement to What I’m Hearing. Over to Eriq, who was in court yesterday to hear TikTok’s big free speech argument, and no, it did not go well.

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Keep your friends close…: Francis Ford Coppola has already thrown $120 million of his own fortune into Megalopolis, his four-decades-in-the-making sci-fi vanity project, so why not toss a few million more onto the bonfire? Last week, the 85-year-old filmmaker brought a libel lawsuit against...

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TikTok’s Rough Day in Court

Up close and in-person at the blockbuster trial—the First Amendment angle, the NatSec concerns, the creators’ pleas, the lawyers’ moxie, and Hollywood’s reticence to get involved.

ERIQ GARDNER

On Monday, at long last, TikTok’s lawyers marched into the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to challenge the much-debated law, signed by Joe Biden in April, forcing its Chinese parent company, ByteDance, to either divest or face a ban in the U.S. Before slipping in the back door to watch the proceedings, I would have said it was anyone’s guess how the chips might fall in this legal blockbuster. The judges, after all, are weighing classic freedom of expression against national security concerns, at least as whispered by the government in partly sealed briefs that demonstrate a rare example of...

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