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.
A month ago, I offered some predictions about how Canadian journalists would cover the five-year anniversary of the country’s infamous…
Amid a lot of patriotic rah-rah, predictable writing, and subpar acting, the Netflix movie War Machine manages to convey at least one…
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from the government-by-ostrich dept The fuckery that is going on across HHS and vaccine programs is just plain incredible. As…
As Republicans and Democrats continue their mid-decade redistricting grudge match that could determine which party controls Congress after November, Americans…
In brief House Republicans opened an insider trading probe into Kalshi and Polymarket over insider trading. Rep. James Comer requested…
On Thursday, an effort to eliminate gun-free zones on New Hampshire college campuses fizzled out in the state Legislature, when…
In brief Chun Wang, co-founder of F2Pool, one of the first Bitcoin mining pools, will command SpaceX’s first private crewed…
From today’s D.C. Circuit decision in Butters v. Nat’l Acad. of Sciences, by Judge Douglas Ginsburg, joined by Judges Karen…
In brief Arturo Hernandez and Cornelius Shannon were charged in federal court in Brooklyn under the Take It Down Act.…
from the hypocrisy-is-bigger-in-texas-too dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In October, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton…
From Judge David Alan Ezra (W.D. Tex.) today in Wilkins v. Seraphin: This case arises from allegedly defamatory statements made…