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.
So argues Prof. Jack Goldsmith (Harvard) in his Executive Functions post. An excerpt: The United States in the MOU pledges…
In brief A Michigan federal judge ruled sports prediction markets are not CFTC-regulated swaps, siding with state regulators over Polymarket.…
From In re Gregorwicz v. Villa-Kennedy, decided today by Arizona Court of Appeals Judge Veronika Fabian, joined by Presiding Judge…
In brief Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal approved an Eesti.ai advisory council proposal on June 17 to create an “AI…
Six years ago, Richard Hershey was distributing religious leaflets on a public sidewalk in a public park surrounding a public…
from the speak-up-now dept You have less than a week to weigh in on Brendan Carr’s obviously bullshit retaliatory censorial…
In brief Nvidia, Carnegie Mellon, and UC Berkeley have released ENPIRE, a framework that lets AI coding agents run the…
From yesterday’s decision in Commonwealth v. Brown, written by Justice Kevin Dougherty, joined by Justices Sallie Updyke Mundy, Kevin Brobson,…
In brief Trace Finance raised a $32 million Series A round led by CoinFund, with backing from Coinbase Ventures, Haun…
from the have-we-tried-being-less-evil? dept The US military has engaged in extrajudicial killings via drone strikes since it was first shown…
Russian propagandists asserted in March 2022 that the U.S. was funding bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine as a justification for their…
In brief GLAAD says AI systems are already causing disproportionate harm to LGBTQ people through bias, misinformation, and discrimination. The…