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.
from the buh-bye dept Senator Bill Cassidy just lost his campaign for reelection to his Senate seat in Louisiana. With…
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In brief Companies running bug bounty programs report a sharp increase in low-quality AI-generated submissions. HackerOne and Nextcloud both suspended…
Jane Doe has sued Amazon.com Services LLC for employment discrimination and seeks to proceed under a pseudonym in all public…
In brief Google unveiled Gemini Spark at I/O 2026. Spark is a cloud-based personal AI agent powered by Gemini 3.5…
Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.), the libertarian-adjacent lawmaker who clashed with President Donald Trump over spending, tariffs, wars, and the Epstein…
In Goethe’s poem Der Zauberlehrling, an apprentice, left alone in his master’s workshop, decides to try his hand at the…
In brief Google introduced Gemini Omni at I/O 2026 as a multimodal AI model designed to generate video and other…
from the more-bullshit-than-the-bullshit-artists-can-handle dept As convenient as it is for cops to play along with hysterical claims made by politicians,…
In every state and in the federal criminal justice system, when a crime victim is killed, the law allows a…
In brief Nearly a decade after its founding and raising $100 million, Prometheum has officially executed its first crypto trades.…
From yesterday’s decision by Judge Hector Gonzalez (E.D.N.Y.) in Harr v. City of N.Y.: In 2003, in connection with the…