Freedom IndexMedia & Culture
Media & Culture explores how journalism, entertainment, and creative industries influence—and are influenced by—free speech. From press freedom to artistic expression, this category highlights the cultural impact of censorship and the ongoing struggle for open dialogue.
“I’m proud of the fact,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller told Fox News in December, that “President Trump has…
Senior officials in the United Kingdom Cabinet Office’s Propriety and Ethics team broke into a locked safe to retrieve and…
A widely used method that crypto exchanges rely on to generate deposit addresses while keeping private keys offline could break…
In brief Aave’s monthly active users hit an all-time high of ~155,000 in February, up roughly 100% in six months.…
In brief The Treasury has recommended a “hold law” allowing platforms to pause suspicious crypto transfers during investigations. The proposal…
In brief Bitcoin is hovering around $66,150, down about 1.7% over the past 24 hours, as volatility spreads across global…
I.Dismal reviews notwithstanding, I hoped that “Wuthering Heights”—writer-director Emerald Fennell’s cinematic adaptation of Emily Brontë’s 1847 gothic novel—would at least…
from the working-for-the-weekend dept For many years now we’ve had two regular posts that come out on the weekends: our…
In brief AlphaTON Capital and the Midnight Foundation introduced Vera Report, an anonymous reporting app integrated with Telegram’s ecosystem. The…
From Upsolve, Inc. v. James, decided Friday by Judge Lewis Kaplan (S.D.N.Y.) (for the earlier decision reaching the opposite result,…
In brief OpenAI and xAI released their best models to date in recent weeks. They have different users in mind,…
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