Just came across her case now, when trying to find the article by the guy I mentioned (unable to, and had major difficulty a while ago, so suspect it has been scrubbed).
They like to suppress the existence of these laws too, and to shift them around - easing, tightening, easing, tightening, and changing, so neither activists nor whistleblowers nor journalists nor randomers who stumble across horrors can know how to keep themselves safe, or to have any ability to weigh up the level of risk they are taking on with any action, and so it is considerably harder to challenge the law let alone any conviction.
That journalist wasn't an activist at all at the time or connected to activist circles. He'd been investigating reports about a worsening legislative climate, and had taken care to keep well within the confines of the (publicly known) law.
Most will get back in line in the end, meantime it gives some permission from their own egos to get out.
Have to assume that part of his inability to put this back in the box is because Musk is pouring money into keeping it in front of MAGA's eyes.
A removal of Trump in favour of some other hyper-authoritarian hazard is not good, but one hopes the replacement fails to capture the ardour of enough of Trump's base.