Reuters Sustainable Finance Newsletter: A call for US companies to follow the First Amendment

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Calls on companies to discipline their employees over their personal social media posts got me thinking about exactly where U.S. executives will draw the line on protecting freedom ​of speech, and where they should draw it.
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You can read up on what I found in my column this ‌week, linked below. I also flagged a story about a new Delta Air Lines policy that might hasten the end of the partial U.S. government shutdown, and a big jury verdict against Meta Platforms.
FIRE.org wants US companies to follow the First Amendment
We Americans pride ourselves on respecting freedom ​of speech, enshrined by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits government meddling in our expressions, worship, assembly ​and writing.
But legally the framework does not apply to private companies. The growth of social media has created ⁠a host of cases in which employees find themselves disciplined or fired for comments they considered routine, however sharp. Sometimes the consequences ​came in the wake of popular backlash against their employers, a dynamic known as