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Tennessee man jailed over Charlie Kirk post wins $835,000 settlement
Larry Bushart was jailed for 37 days over a Facebook post after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk Tennessee officials will pay $835,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a man who was jailed for more than a month over a Facebook post he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk . While many people across the US lost their jobs over social media comments about Kirk’s death, Larry Bushart’s case stood out as a rare instance in which such online speech led…
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