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 that’s-a-lot-of-defamation-cases-kash dept To have one defamation case about public allegations of your drinking as FBI Director would be…
From the long opinion in Moore v. Cecil, decided today by Judge Elizabeth Branch, joined by Judges Jill Pryor and…
In brief DeepSeek released its new V4-Pro model with 1.6 trillion parameters. It costs $1.74/$3.48 per million input/output tokens, roughly…
from the but-who-will-remember-the-good-things-about-Harry-Byrd dept The state of Virginia is trying to break with its racist past. It’s not pretending it…
Fordham Law School professor Zephyr Teachout and the Manhattan Institute’s John Ketcham debate the resolution, “Mayor Zohran Mamdani is likely…
In brief Morgan Stanley is positioning itself as a firm that can help stablecoin issuers manage reserves with a money…
After seeing Michael, the new Michael Jackson biopic, I can only imagine what the pitch session must have been like:…
In brief The Ethereum Foundation said it agreed to sell over $23 million worth of ETH to BitMine Immersion Technologies.…
Stealing is bad, and you shouldn’t do it. It’s really as simple as that. Children understand this, even from a…
Shoot and Kill. The U.S.-Iran conflict is evolving from a hot war of dueling air strikes to a nautical stalemate…
In brief Meta signed an agreement with Amazon Web Services to deploy tens of millions of Graviton5 processors for AI…
from the symbolically-useful dept We’ve noted how Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav is poised to receive a $550 million golden…