Omnicom Group and the Interpublic Group of Companies accepted the Federal Trade Commission's anti-boycott proviso to complete their merger. Instead of capitulating to the commission, Media Matters is suing.
The FTC’s investigation into advocacy groups like Media Matters and advertisers is an indefensible assault on the First Amendment.
Karoline Leavitt's threat against ABC News is an attack on free speech.
In the name of "restoring freedom of speech," FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson wants to override the editorial judgments of social media platforms.
Live by your own rule, Ruhle!
A new meta-analysis finds “no significant effects of social media abstinence interventions on positive affect, negative affect, or life satisfaction.”
The award-winning journalist discusses the collapse of a post–World War II consensus, online speech police, and the legacy media on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Elon Musk sues seven more companies for pulling advertising from his platform.
It’s the latest company to step back from dangerous alliances with political factions.
Journalists increasingly see their job as protecting their preferred candidates, not asking tough questions.
Plus: Kamala Harris' closing argument, the FTC's harassment of Musk-owned Twitter, and more
A new study finds that conservatives are especially likely to share information from sources that a "politically balanced" sample of Republicans and Democrats deemed untrustworthy.
Plus: Long live Eric Adams, Electoral College bias, and more...
The worldwide erosion of support for free speech continues.
What if there was a social media platform owned not by Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, but by everybody and nobody all at once?
Glenn Greenwald discusses Brazil's ban of X, the arrest of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, and the global crackdown on speech on Just Asking Questions.
The Democratic nominee has favored policing online speech. Would a future Harris administration defend free expression?
Officials pursue an anti-liberty agenda through unofficial pressure and foreign regulators.
Seven congressional Democrats called on the FEC to stop deepfakes. But is there really much to worry about?
The European Union is an engine of global control-freakery.
Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network.
Plus: RFK Jr. thrown off the N.Y. ballot, Ukraine advances into Russia, and more...
After announcing he would vote for Ron Paul, an onslaught of criticism ensued. Those critiques missed the mark, even though the gun rights advocate ultimately caved.
We're entering peak stupidity with "election interference" claims.
Those three presidential candidates are making promises that would have bewildered and horrified the Founding Fathers.
X's child porn detection system doesn’t violate an Illinois biometric privacy law, the judge ruled.
Officials suspend efforts to force X to suppress the world’s access to video of a crime.
Corey Harris' case should never have been a national news story to begin with.
Local hostility to free speech may become a global problem.
Argentine President Javier Milei and Tesla CEO Elon Musk met for the first time in Austin, Texas, where they "agreed on the need for free markets."
Fight back through better information and discourse, not by empowering the government.
If adopted by the Supreme Court, Prof. Candeub's approach would be a grave menace to freedom of speech.
The justices established guidelines for determining whether that is true in any particular case.
Even as they attack the Biden administration's crusade against "misinformation," Missouri and Louisiana defend legal restrictions on content moderation.
The First Amendment restricts governments, not private platforms, and respects editorial rights.
Supreme Court arguments about two social media laws highlight a dangerous conflation of state and private action.
"None of these laws prevent kids from viewing anything. They just prevent kids from posting," argues Shoshana Weissmann.
Plus: A listener asks if it should become the norm for all news outlets to require journalists to disclose their voting records.
Republicans and Democrats are using emotional manipulation to push an agenda of censorship.
Where are the misinformation czars and the mainstream media fact-checkers now?
In an era when X (formerly Twitter) is blamed for all the ills of the world, here's a case where it did good.
The former journalist defends misinformation in the Trump era and explains why so many journalists are against free speech.
Your support makes some of the "riskiest" journalism on the internet possible.
"Being a true free speech champion does require that you defend speech that even you disagree with," says libertarian Rikki Schlott.
The Supreme Court considers whether and when banishing irksome constituents violates the First Amendment.
Democrats and Republicans are united in thinking their political agendas trump the First Amendment.
The justices agreed to consider whether the Biden administration's efforts to suppress online "misinformation" were unconstitutional.
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