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As the battle against the coronavirus outbreak was emerging as a defining issue in President Joe Bidens young administration, the pandemic and its effects on society became a pervasive part of the media narrative about his first 60 days in office.

Indeed, nearly three-quarters of all news stories about the Biden administrations early days in office (72%) mentioned COVID-19 in some way, according to a recent Pew Research Center report. It was a major part of the reporting meaning at least half the story focused on it in 42% of all stories about the administration and a minor part of the reporting in another 30%.

The presence of COVID-19 in these stories cut across a wide range of distinct topic areas. Not surprisingly, virtually every health care story analyzed included the coronavirus in some way, with 97% featuring it as a major element of the reporting. The vast majority of stories about the economy (96%) also mentioned the virus, with 79% focusing on it in a major way.

This analysis of news coverage of COVID-19 in the early days of Joe Bidens presidency builds on an April 2021 Pew Research Center report, which examined the medias broader coverage of the new administration, as well as Americans perceptions of that coverage.

The analysis of media content in this study is based on a selection of weekday media coverage collected from Jan. 21 to March 21, 2021. Stories were collected from television, radio, digital and print outlets and coded by a team of nine coders trained specifically for this project.

Part of this analysis examines the extent to which COVID-19 was mentioned in each news story evaluated. This captures whether COVID-19 was a major part of the story (focused on in at least 50% of the story), a minor part of the story (at least one mention, but not focused on in at least 50% of the story) or not a part of the story.

For the survey component of this analysis, we surveyed 12,045 U.S. adults from March 8 to 14, 2021. Everyone who completed the survey is a member of the Centers American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. This way nearly all U.S. adults have a chance of selection. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATPs methodology here.

Here are the questions used for this report, along with responses, and its methodology.

This is the latest post in Pew Research Centers ongoing investigation of the state of news, information and journalism in the digital age, a research program funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, with generous support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

COVID-19 was an element in 80% of stories about Bidens political skills and management and 64% of immigration stories, although on those two topics, it most often appeared in a minor way.

Despite the overall magnitude of COVID-19 coverage, there were some differences depending on the type of audience each outlet has. Outlets with right-leaning audiences were less likely to mention COVID-19 in a major way (29%) than outlets with left-leaning (45%) or mixed audiences (44%). Still, a majority of stories from all three outlet groups had at least some reference to the coronavirus. (Learn more about how Pew Research Center classified news outletaudiences by visiting Appendix A of the methodology of our recent study.)

Stories that had a major focus on COVID-19 were about as likely to carry positive as negative assessments of the Biden administration (26% vs. 25%), while nearly half (49%) had neither positive nor negative assessments. Stories that focused on COVID-19 in a minor way were more likely to put forth negative than positive assessments of the administration (36% vs. 22%), with 42% having neither a positive nor a negative assessment.

Among the stories that focused primarily on COVID-19, Biden or a member of his administration appeared as sources far more frequently than any other source type included in the study. Roughly eight-in-ten stories (83%) that mentioned COVID-19 in a major way cited the Biden administration (including statements and data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). Statements from experts and interest groups, such as medical professionals and health organizations, were the second most prominent source types, cited in about a third of the COVID-19 stories (32%). Political figures, including Democrats and Republicans in Congress, appeared as sources in roughly a quarter of stories that focused on COVID-19 in a major way (27% and 23%, respectively).

Another sign of the pervasiveness of COVID-19 in news coverage of the first 60 days of the Biden presidency is the publics awareness of the administrations efforts and initiatives related to the pandemic. In a survey administered from March 8 to 14, about three-quarters of U.S. adults (77%) said they had heard a lot about the administrations $1.9 trillion stimulus package. Almost the same percentage of adults (74%) said they had heard a lot about the administrations efforts to distribute COVID-19 vaccines.

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I remember when the worst thing you had to worry about at work was a misdirected reply-to-all on an email.

Joann Lytle, a partner with the law firm McCarter & English in Philadelphia, knows things have changed and there are many ways for employees and businesses to get caught up in legal trouble these days using electronic communications and social media from Facebook to Twitter to YouTube to LinkedIn and more.

Jennifer Reno, risk manager at the shopping network QVC, notes that businesses use social media to market, provide customer service, conduct research and even hire employees. It is popular because it can be low cost compared to other forms of marketing.

But both experts warn that if its not properly managed or insured, low-cost social media can lead to unexpected high costs. The potential for abuse by employees, as well as employers, is considerable.

Employees using their personal email or other accounts for business purposes with their employers permission raises issues.

Reno and Lytle discussed some of the risks, management strategies and insurance issues during the 2021 RIMS virtual annual conference in a session entitled, Social Media in the Workplace: Litigation Risks and Insurance Coverage.

Basically, the speed and ease of communication is going to lead people to make impulsive ill-considered comments. Theres a lack of privacy, lack of filter. This is a permanent record and obviously regulations and case law are still at the formative stage and are evolving every day, Reno said.

Employees can be especially prone to misuse social media. They can engage in discrimination, harassment, talking about their employer, disclosing proprietary information, security breaches, union organizing, Reno added, noting that youthful indiscretions have a way of following people throughout their careers.

Privacy rights violations are among the most common risks.

A Minnesota woman sued a health clinic after a clinic employee posted a photo of her and the fact she had tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease. The employer was off the hook because the webpage where the photo and comment were posted was a personal page of the employee, and not one controlled by the employer.

You can imagine there would be a different result if the employee had done it on company property from her own mobile device, Lytle commented. She said employers who allow employees to use their own devices at work without any restrictions might want to think about the risks of such situations.

Reno cited a case where a hospital employee was fired for posting her boyfriends ex-girlfriends medical history on Twitter. Another involved a nurse posting on a Facebook anti-vaccine group about a child who was admitted to the hospital with measles. The nurses name and place of employment were on her Facebook profile. Parents whose child was a patient of the hospital shared the post to the hospitals Facebook page and the nurse was fired for violating the health privacy law (HIPPA).

An employer may violate privacy rights by viewing an employees restricted site and providing information from that site to others. Reno said that 26 states have enacted laws to prevent employers from requesting or requiring passwords to any employees personal internet accounts

Employees using their personal email or other accounts for business purposes with their employers permission raises issues.

Lytle referred to a 2019 case in which an employer authorized an employees use of a private Dropbox account for work-related matters. That password-protected Dropbox account contained both work-related and personal folders. Some of the personal photos were of parties and the employees boyfriend that one might consider to be borderline explicit, Lytle said. The employers IT administrator accessed the username and password of the Dropbox account, found the photographs, and forwarded them to executives in the company. The employee was forced to resign and later sued. While the employer argued that the Dropbox folder with the personal photos was a work account, the court said the employers actions clearly intruded on the employees private affairs.

The result might have been different if there were any claims that the employee had stored the photographs or even viewed the photographs from Dropbox on a work computer, which could change the expectation of privacy. So these are ways and employer can really get into trouble depending on what their employees are doing and what conduct the employer takes in response, Lytle said.

Lytle offered one other case from California where a school principal came across derogatory comments about the school posted on MySpace by a former student and shared them with the local newspaper. The former student and her family were forced to move after they received death threats. They sued the newspaper, the principal and school district. But the court dismissed the suit saying that, No reasonable person would have any expectation of privacy after posting something like that on MySpace.

Managing the Risk

Reno stressed the importance of employers establishing a framework to manage social media risk, even before worrying about insurance. She advises employers to draft a social media use policy and distribute it to employees.

You really do need to know what your company, your employees, your management, are they doing on social media, she said. Also, what is the purpose of your social media marketing platform?

Reading the entire insurance policy is necessary to understand how any exclusions might apply.

She suggests at least an annual training program on the authorized use of social media, posting, disclosure and other issues.

Its also important to have a monitoring program. You want to trust everybody, but you cant trust every single person. You also want to know how your employees are using [social media] and how theyre putting forth your brands into social media, she explained.

The framework should also include a complaint resolution process.

We monitor our social media on a minute-by-minute basis and we use it to make sure that if customers do actually complain even in the smallest bit about the format of a broadcast, something that someone is wearing, or about a reporter, that information is actually transmitted to a myriad of departments, she explained. If it is something that needs to be addressed, theyll respond to the poster and then make sure that the poster receives some type of resolution.

In managing situations where a companys reputation might be damaged by derogatory comments, Reno suggests it is best to act as quickly as possible. The most important thing is to take full responsibility. Make no excuses, have an immediate response. There should not be a days delay; it should really be within hours, minutes if possible. But also I think its important to not get into an ongoing conversation with other posters. You really need to shut it down.

Reno said the risk management piece should be done before even considering insurance because then an insured can present the best face forward to underwriters. So youre not just presenting garbage to them, but youre really presenting a thoughtful approach to social media, she said.

Beware Exclusions

Lytle stressed the necessity of reading the entire policy such as a standard ISO commercial general liability policy, with coverage for personal and advertising injury liability, in order to understand how any exclusions might apply. One exclusion is for injury caused by or at the direction of the insured, with knowledge that the act would violate the rights of another and would inflict personal and advertising injury. The CGL policy also has an exclusion for injury arising out of electronic chatrooms or bulletin boards over which the insured has control.

Its also important to check whether the the organization or the individual is actually an insured under the policy, Lytle added.

Faced with CGL exclusions, insureds may turn to other coverages such as employment practices liability insurance. This might come into play where an employer fires an employee after checking out his or her pages, or decides between two applicants after scanning their social media and learning one is pregnant, or an employee alleging a hostile work environment after some employees engaged in text harassment or cyber bullying.

Each of these examples could lead to a lawsuit for wrongful termination, discrimination or creating a hostile work environment, Reno said.

Specialized media liability insurance, which is important to QVC because it is a broadcaster, covers for defamation, libel, slander, infringement, plagiarism, piracy, misappropriation, or invasion or interference with an individuals right to privacy, she added.

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In an elegant apartment building in central Warsaw flying a red and white flag from its first floor balcony, a symbol of the Belarusian opposition, remnants of the anti-government media in Belarus are shrugging off a new wave of death threats.

Less than a year ago, Roman Protasevich, a 26-year-old blogger and opponent of veteran President Alexander Lukashenko, was sitting in the same office helping live stream anti-government protests around 300 miles (480 km) to the east which he hoped would topple Lukashenko.

His former colleagues recall how they all worked 24/7, slept on mattresses, and believed that Lukashenko's days were numbered.

On Sunday, a plane carrying Protasevich flying over Belarus en route to nearby Lithuania was forced to land in Minsk, the Belarusian capital, with the help of a false bomb threat and a MiG-29 fighter jet. Protasevich was arrested and is in a Minsk jail.

Protasevich's former colleagues at Warsaw-based Nexta, an anti-Lukashenko news outlet which reaches its more than 1 million subscribers on the Telegram messaging app, are anxious.

Outside their office perched on collapsible chairs, two Polish policemen keep watch.

"...After the incident with Roman's plane, we began to receive hundreds, already more than a thousand different threats," Stsiapan Putsila, Nexta's founder, told Reuters in an interview.

"(Threats) that they will shoot us, that our office will be blown up. Of course, this is worrying," he said, sitting in a large gaming chair that he said was used by Protasevich.

Putsila said the threats came in the form of anonymous emails and private social media messages.

"We're used to it because they have been trying to strangle us. For some years we've been one of the Telegram channel/news outlets which is inconvenient for the regime which cannot be blocked," he said.

Putsila said he and his team took security measures which they could not discuss publicly. His staff had been followed, he said, and people had tried to break into the office.

Police in Warsaw did not reply to a written request about the threats Putsila said Nexta staff had received. Lukashenko's press service could not be reached for comment and a spokesman for the Belarusian Investigative Committee, which investigates major crimes, did not respond to written questions from Reuters.

Inside Belarus, what is left of the opposition-minded media says it is being squeezed too.

Earlier on Tuesday, the popular news website TUT.BY reported that four of its employees had gone missing.

The last message from one of its reporters, Alya Burkovskaya, said a man was trying to get into her apartment in the guise of an electrician. Another, Anastasia Prudnikova, was arrested shortly after returning from maternity leave. They were all later freed.

TUT.BY said security forces detained 14 other members of its staff, including Marina Zolotova, its editor-in-chief, last week and blocked access to its website, in a tax evasion case that TUT.BY says is fabricated.

The State Control Committee, to which the financial investigation department reports, said a criminal case against unnamed staff had been opened over suspected tax evasion.

TUT.BY has sought to sidestep the crackdown by continuing to post news on its Telegram messenger feed.

Branding them a menace to society, Lukashenko's government has stripped many news organisations of their accreditation. Opposition-leaning journalists say they have faced raids, arrest, imprisonment or been forced to relocate abroad.

The Belarusian Association of Journalists says 477 journalists were detained in 2020.

Lukashenko had tolerated some opposition-minded and foreign media until mass protests erupted following a presidential election last August that his opponents say was rigged to keep him in power.

Lukashenko denies electoral fraud. He has accused the media of doing everything to "destroy people's trust in the state" and the government has accused some journalists of helping to orchestrate protests.

The state news agency BelTA has published comments on its website in support of the government's measures against journalists. On May 18, it quoted political scientist Alexander Shpakovsky's comments accusing TUT.BY of spreading falsehoods.

Television footage has shown journalists covering protests being hauled into a police van. Police have at times accused journalists of coordinating protests and of inciting what they call mass riots.

Those who still dare to do such work wear an extra pair of underwear or socks in case they are detained, say some Belarusian journalists still working there.

The authorities say they are battling foreign-backed terrorists and plotters intent on revolution and regime change.

"There has never been such a peak in repressions against journalists ... and freedom of speech in general in the entire history of Belarus," said Barys Haretski, deputy head of the Belarusian Association of Journalists.

"Over the past year, we have recorded 62 acts of violence against journalists - these are beatings by security officials during detentions and in isolation wards, and three cases when security officials fired at journalists with rubber bullets," Haretski said.

A day after Protasevich's arrest, the government introduced new measures to regulate media activities, including a blanket ban on covering protests or publishing opinion polls without prior authorisation from the government.

"Lukashenko destroys the press because it is a mirror in which the monstrous essence of the regime is reflected," exiled opposition politician Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica on Tuesday.

Kirill Voloshin, the TUT.BY co-founder, said none of its 250 employees had quit since the crackdown and advertisers had stayed loyal.

"Even if one person remains, he will work. Even if everyone is taken away, we are sure that others will come to the place of those who are taken away," he said.

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An ambassador and trained facilitator under Eco Femme (a social enterprise working towards menstrual health in south India), Sanjina is also an active member of the MHM Collective- India and Menstrual Health Alliance- India. She has conducted Menstrual Health sessions in multiple government schools adopted by Rotary District 3240 as part of their WinS project in rural Bengal. She has also delivered training of trainers on SRHR, gender, sexuality and Menstruation for Tomorrows Foundation, Vikramshila Education Resource Society, Nirdhan trust and Micro Finance, Tollygunj Women In Need, Paint It Red in Kolkata.

Now as an MH Fellow with YKA, shes expanding her impressive scope of work further by launching a campaign to facilitate the process of ensuring better menstrual health and SRH services for women residing in correctional homes in West Bengal. The campaign will entail an independent study to take stalk of the present conditions of MHM in correctional homes across the state and use its findings to build public support and political will to take the necessary action.

Saurabh has been associated with YKA as a user and has consistently been writing on the issue MHM and its intersectionality with other issues in the society. Now as an MHM Fellow with YKA, hes launched the Right to Period campaign, which aims to ensure proper execution of MHM guidelines in Delhis schools.

The long-term aim of the campaign is to develop an open culture where menstruation is not treated as a taboo. The campaign also seeks to hold the schools accountable for their responsibilities as an important component in the implementation of MHM policies by making adequate sanitation infrastructure and knowledge of MHM available in school premises.

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Harshita is a psychologist and works to support people with mental health issues, particularly adolescents who are survivors of violence. Associated with the Azadi Foundation in UP, Harshita became an MHM Fellow with YKA, with the aim of promoting better menstrual health.

Her campaign #MeriMarzi aims to promote menstrual health and wellness, hygiene and facilities for female sex workers in UP. She says, Knowledge about natural body processes is a very basic human right. And for individuals whose occupation is providing sexual services, it becomes even more important.

Meri Marzi aims to ensure sensitised, non-discriminatory health workers for the needs of female sex workers in the Suraksha Clinics under the UPSACS (Uttar Pradesh State AIDS Control Society) program by creating more dialogues and garnering public support for the cause of sex workers menstrual rights. The campaign will also ensure interventions with sex workers to clear misconceptions around overall hygiene management to ensure that results flow both ways.

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MH Fellow Sabna comes with significant experience working with a range of development issues. A co-founder of Project Sakhi Saheli, which aims to combat period poverty and break menstrual taboos, Sabna has, in the past, worked on the issue of menstruation in urban slums of Delhi with women and adolescent girls. She and her team also released MenstraBook, with menstrastories and organised Menstra Tlk in the Delhi School of Social Work to create more conversations on menstruation.

With YKA MHM Fellow Vineet, Sabna launched Menstratalk, a campaign that aims to put an end to period poverty and smash menstrual taboos in society. As a start, the campaign aims to begin conversations on menstrual health with five hundred adolescents and youth in Delhi through offline platforms, and through this community mobilise support to create Period Friendly Institutions out of educational institutes in the city.

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A student from Delhi School of Social work, Vineet is a part of Project Sakhi Saheli, an initiative by the students of Delhi school of Social Work to create awareness on Menstrual Health and combat Period Poverty. Along with MHM Action Fellow Sabna, Vineet launched Menstratalk, a campaign that aims to put an end to period poverty and smash menstrual taboos in society.

As a start, the campaign aims to begin conversations on menstrual health with five hundred adolescents and youth in Delhi through offline platforms, and through this community mobilise support to create Period Friendly Institutions out of educational institutes in the city.

Find out more about the campaign here.

A native of Bhagalpur district Bihar, Shalini Jha believes in equal rights for all genders and wants to work for a gender-equal and just society. In the past shes had a year-long association as a community leader with Haiyya: Organise for Actions Health Over Stigma campaign. Shes pursuing a Masters in Literature with Ambedkar University, Delhi and as an MHM Fellow with YKA, recently launched Project (Alharh).

She says, Bihar is ranked the lowest in Indias SDG Index 2019 for India. Hygienic and comfortable menstruation is a basic human right and sustainable development cannot be ensured if menstruators are deprived of their basic rights. Project (Alharh) aims to create a robust sensitised community in Bhagalpur to collectively spread awareness, break the taboo, debunk myths and initiate fearless conversations around menstruation. The campaign aims to reach at least 6000 adolescent girls from government and private schools in Baghalpur district in 2020.

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A psychologist and co-founder of a mental health NGO called Customize Cognition, Ritika forayed into the space of menstrual health and hygiene, sexual and reproductive healthcare and rights and gender equality as an MHM Fellow with YKA. She says, The experience of working on MHM/SRHR and gender equality has been an enriching and eye-opening experience. I have learned whats beneath the surface of the issue, be it awareness, lack of resources or disregard for trans men, who also menstruate.

The Transmen-ses campaign aims to tackle the issue of silence and disregard for trans mens menstruation needs, by mobilising gender sensitive health professionals and gender neutral restrooms in Lucknow.

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A Computer Science engineer by education, Nitisha started her career in the corporate sector, before realising she wanted to work in the development and social justice space. Since then, she has worked with Teach For India and Care India and is from the founding batch of Indian School of Development Management (ISDM), a one of its kind organisation creating leaders for the development sector through its experiential learning post graduate program.

As a Youth Ki Awaaz Menstrual Health Fellow, Nitisha has started Lets Talk Period, a campaign to mobilise young people to switch to sustainable period products. She says, 80 lakh women in Delhi use non-biodegradable sanitary products, generate 3000 tonnes of menstrual waste, that takes 500-800 years to decompose; which in turn contributes to the health issues of all menstruators, increased burden of waste management on the city and harmful living environment for all citizens.

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A former Assistant Secretary with the Ministry of Women and Child Development in West Bengal for three months, Lakshmi Bhavya has been championing the cause of menstrual hygiene in her district. By associating herself with the Lalana Campaign, a holistic menstrual hygiene awareness campaign which is conducted by the Anahat NGO, Lakshmi has been slowly breaking taboos when it comes to periods and menstrual hygiene.

A Gender Rights Activist working with the tribal and marginalized communities in india, Srilekha is a PhD scholar working on understanding body and sexuality among tribal girls, to fill the gaps in research around indigenous women and their stories. Srilekha has worked extensively at the grassroots level with community based organisations, through several advocacy initiatives around Gender, Mental Health, Menstrual Hygiene and Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) for the indigenous in Jharkhand, over the last 6 years.

Srilekha has also contributed to sustainable livelihood projects and legal aid programs for survivors of sex trafficking. She has been conducting research based programs on maternal health, mental health, gender based violence, sex and sexuality. Her interest lies in conducting workshops for young people on life skills, feminism, gender and sexuality, trauma, resilience and interpersonal relationships.

A Guwahati-based college student pursuing her Masters in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Bidisha started the #BleedwithDignity campaign on the technology platform Change.org, demanding that the Government of Assam installbiodegradable sanitary pad vending machines in all government schools across the state. Her petition on Change.org has already gathered support from over 90000 people and continues to grow.

Bidisha was selected in Change.orgs flagship program She Creates Change having run successful online advocacycampaigns, which were widely recognised. Through the #BleedwithDignity campaign; she organised and celebrated World Menstrual Hygiene Day, 2019 in Guwahati, Assam by hosting a wall mural by collaborating with local organisations. The initiative was widely covered by national and local media, and the mural was later inaugurated by the events chief guest Commissioner of Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) Debeswar Malakar, IAS.

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A coalition of news organizations and press freedom groups, including the Canadian Association of Journalists, announced Wednesday that they plan to challenge the RCMPs restrictions on media access at Fairy Creek watershed in court.

The coalition includes the Canadian Association of Journalists (CAJ), Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), National Observer, The Narwhal, Capital Daily, Ricochet Media, The Discourse, and IndigiNews.

Over the past week, weve repeatedly seen the RCMP shift the goal posts on how it plans to allow journalists access in order to cover this important public interest story, said Brent Jolly, CAJ president, in a statement.

The B.C. Supreme Court on April 1 granted an injunction to Teal-Jones Group following weeks of blockades by protesters and activists seeking to prevent the company from conducting old-growth logging in the Fairy Creek watershed.

However, the BC RCMP only started enforcing the injunction on May 17 and has set up a number of checkpoints leading to the Fairy Creek watershed in an effort to control and restrict access.

Media are allowed to observe enforcement of the injunction and subsequent protests although access is tightly controlled and journalists are required to register with the RCMP.

Since enforcement began, over 112 individuals have been arrested the majority of whom were arrested for breaching the injunction including a journalist who was not on the RCMPs list of accredited media.

According to the CAJ, the RCMP has denied journalists entry into the area of enforcement through a broad use of exclusion zones and whenever access is granted, journalists are restricted in ways that prevent them from doing their job.

Every day is a new day with new excuses from the RCMP about why access is limited. Enough is enough, said Jolly.

The announcement comes less than a week after the CAJ called on the court system to limit the RCMPs power when granting injunctions and less than 24 hours after they sent a letter to the RCMP requesting that media be provided fair access to the Fairy Creek watershed.

Journalists are not participants in the protests, or advocates for the protesters against whom the injunction is being enforced. It is not our intention to interfere with police operations in lawful execution of a court order. Our role is to serve democracy by documenting activities and conveying that information to the public, the letter reads.

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