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Is there a First Amendment right to follow President Trump's Twitter account?

  • Written by Clay Calvert, Brechner Eminent Scholar in Mass Communication, University of Florida
imageCan the president block people from seeing his tweets?AP Photo/J. David Ake

President Donald Trump’s fondness for criticizing news organizations, “heckling journalists” and spouting points of public policy via his Twitter account is clear.

News of his nomination of Christopher Wray to be the next FBI director, for example, came...

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