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.
Fifty years ago this summer, The Bad News Bears was released. Despite its PG rating, goofily disarming poster, and use…
In brief JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon went on the offensive against Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on Friday. The banking…
Some people really like the presidency and, more specifically, the politicians who seek to inhabit it. It has “transcended the…
In brief Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Friday that the U.S. has seized roughly $1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies…
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and…
Earlier this week, the Energy Department announced that it would give its surplus plutonium from dismantled warheads to five energy…
In brief The CFTC will allow Coinbase to offer U.S. customers access to offshore crypto perpetual futures through the exchange’s…
Two months after the Trump administration fired Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem under a cloud of controversy,…
In brief An anonymous Bitcoin user inscribed the text of the American Constitution on the Bitcoin blockchain. The act was…
from the weaponize-this dept It’s been less than two weeks since the Justice Department created the obviously illegal and unconstitutional…
From Judge Annemarie Carney Axon (N.D. Ala.) in yesterday’s Spears v. N.Y. Times Co.: Plaintiff Kai Spears was a walk-on…
In brief Five frontier AI models disagreed on 67% of 1,000 real-world fact-check claims. Unanimous agreement happened on only 328…