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.
After the Secret Service stopped a would-be assassin at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night, President Donald Trump and his…
In brief PocketOS founder Jeremy Crane claims a Cursor agent running Anthropic’s Claude Opus deleted his company’s production database and…
Now-deleted Comey post, copied from a CNN article on the indictment. From today’s indictment: On or about May 15, 2025, in…
In brief Sze Man Yu Inos, 30, received a 71-month federal prison sentence for wire fraud targeting elderly women. The…
from the fix-your-own-shit dept There’s still a meaningful effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it…
Bradley Greeff | Dreamstime.com As a recent Boston Globe article explains, the Trump Administration is trying to deport Russian dissenters…
In brief The CFTC sued Wisconsin after the state moved against prediction market platforms. Wisconsin targeted Polymarket, Kalshi, Coinbase, Robinhood,…
When he returned to the White House in January 2025, one of the first things President Donald Trump did was…
In brief By mid-2025, 35% of newly published websites were AI-generated or AI-assisted, up from zero before ChatGPT’s November 2022…
from the no-laughing-matter dept Apparently we’ve reached the stage of the second Trump presidency when we’re doing reruns of the…
On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Monsanto Company v. Durnell, a case that will determine the balance…
In brief U.S. Army Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of using classified information…