In Elonis v. United States, the Supreme Court addressed the issue of free speech in the social media era. The case dealt with a Pennsylvania man, Anthony Elonis, who posted a number of Facebook rants threatening his wife, his coworkers, a kindergarten class, and law enforcement officers. Upon seeing some of Mr. Elonis’ posts, his boss fired him and contacted the FBI. When the posts continued, Mr. Elonis was charged federally with several counts of transmitting threats to injure other persons. At trial, Mr. Elonis requested a jury instruction that the Government was required to show his threats were … Continue reading Free Speech And Social Media