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View More NewsTron creator Justin Sun sued World Liberty Financial, the stablecoin and crypto firm backed by members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s family, on Tuesday, alleging that the project had unfairly locked up his $WLFI holdings, made fraudulent misrepresentations, and threatened and defamed Sun.The lawsuit filed Tuesday, which includes a line about Sun’s support for Trump himself, alleged that World Liberty’s leadership had engaged “in an illegal scheme to seize property” in the form of Sun’s tokens, which Sun alleged he had purchased after being solicited by the World Liberty team in 2024.”At that pivotal time for World Liberty, Mr. Sun…
“We should, as a society, seriously consider moving away from an all-volunteer force and only fight the next war if everyone shares in the risk and the cost,” says military contractor and all-around surveillance-enabler Palantir. The big data company—whose analysis tools help power everything from “predictive policing” in U.S. cities to military operations in Gaza—recently released a 22-point manifesto that’s perhaps best described as bootlicking, though icky, elitist, and ultranationalistic would also do. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. Palantir posted the document…
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This week, Andrew Heaton is joined by Grammy-nominated rapper Afroman, who recently turned a police raid on his home and the lawsuit that followed into an unlikely free speech victory and a new chapter in his career. Afroman explains how…
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This week on the Quillette podcast, I’ll be interviewing the director of Speechless, which is a great new two-part documentary film about free speech that just appeared on the CBC and BBC. Yes, you heard that right. The CBC and the BBC are now airing Quillette-approved liberal takes on free speech. Crazy times, right?Speechless | Shows | CBC GemA filmmaker’s decade-long investigation into the campus culture wars that have redefined free speech and civil discourse, in the very places that were meant to protect those ideals.To make sense of what you’re about to see and hear (depending on whether you’re…
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April appears to be a lost cause for the crypto Clarity Act, but a U.S. Senate committee hearing sometime in May could keep the…
Blockchain.com has rolled out perpetual futures trading in its non-custodial DeFi wallet, allowing users to open leveraged positions directly from self-custodied Bitcoin used as…
In brief Core Scientific, which mines Bitcoin, said it would offer $3.3 billion worth of speculative-grade debt to capitalize on the AI boom. The…
Imagine you’re a professor who disagrees with your university’s indigenous land acknowledgement, so you write your own as a joke — and then your…
People building the future of the social web — interoperable and decentralized — need to protect themselves against copyright liability. Like anyone who creates…
Istanbul, April 21, 2026—Turkish authorities must stop their improper and excessive use of the country’s disinformation law against journalists because of their work, the…
Carmine Agnello, the mob boss John Gotti’s grandson, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for defrauding the U.S. government’s Covid relief funding system…
Bitcoin (BTC) mid-size wallet inflows to Binance fell to 3,000–4,000 BTC, marking a multi-year low in sell-side activity from this cohort.This coincides with Coinbase…
In brief Growth in USDT’s market cap has outpaced USDC’s since Drift Protocol was exploited for $285 million this month. If USDC holders begin…
from the first-amendment-isn’t-subjective dept Last fall, an Alabama police officer decided he wasn’t going to allow a 62-year-old woman to exercise her First Amendment…
