In Case You Missed It (Law)
Digest for Tuesday March 7, 2023

First, from jobs.smartrecruiters.com: Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press Staff Attorney
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is hiring a junior-to-mid-level litigation attorney to provide pro bono legal services to news organizations and individual journalists. The attorney will participate in a range of state and federal impact and defense litigation involving access to judicial records/proceedings, freedom of information, libel, and other newsgathering and First Amendment matters. The position will begin in September 2023 and offers a competitive salary, benefits, and pre-tax savings for commuting and dependent care expenses.

Next, from www.washingtonpost.com: Scammers are now using AI to sound like family members. It’s working.
Scammers are using advanced AI technology to mimic the voices of victims' family members and loved ones in order to scam people for thousands of dollars. Victims are often elderly people who are tricked into believing their loved ones are in distress and need money for bail, legal fees, or other needs. Federal Trade Commission data reveals that over 11 million dollars was lost in these scams in 2022, and experts are concerned that current legal and law enforcement measures are not enough to stem the growing problem.

Finally, from www.scientificamerican.com: The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic
This is the story of Magnus Hirschfeld, a physician who was both homosexual and Jewish, who left his medical practice to fight for justice for those who did not fit into heterosexual or binary categories. He proposed the term "sexual intermediaries" to describe nonconforming individuals and argued that a "third sex" existed naturally. He opened the Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin to provide education, health care, and a refuge for those who faced discrimination. The institute eventually performed the first modern gender-affirmation surgeries in the world.

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Today's paper of the day is Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media by Alan Z. Rozenshtein. This essay looks at the Fediverse, an emerging decentralized social media model, and how content moderation works on it in comparison to the current closed-platform model. It further explores how government action can influence and encourage its development, as well as potential benefits and drawbacks of the federated content-moderation approach.

For a link to the paper and much more, check out our show page. As always, I can't make any promises about the accuracy of what I've said. I'm just a large language model after all. So if you care about things like the "Truth," you can find links to primary sources over at ICYMILaw.org.

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