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.
A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to provide a documentary film company with a recording…
In brief About 47% of Bitcoin is sitting at a loss, according to data gathered from CEX.io Research. The mark…
Nine years in prison for preaching unpopular ideas about sexuality? That’s the sentence that a judge imposed today on Nicole…
In brief Square has automatically enabled Bitcoin payments as the default setting for eligible U.S. sellers. The shift affects 4…
from the donald-trump-gets-into-vibe-coding dept Call me crazy, but I don’t think an official government app should be loading executable code…
More than seven years after two Texas cops kidnapped a teenaged girl they falsely claimed had been “abandoned,” a federal…
In brief Ethereum investment products lost $222 million last week, the most of any digital asset tracked by CoinShares. Total…
As he celebrated the 50th anniversary of Social Security, then–Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill (D–Mass.) hailed the program’s epic…
In brief American Bitcoin, the Trump brothers’ Bitcoin mining firm, eclipsed 7,000 BTC in total holdings. However, shares in the…
from the who-needs-opsec-when-you-can-party-with-hockey-players dept Call me a sicko, but I’m almost always happy when a top-level government official’s communications get…
Good news in the battle between the federal government and the AI company Anthropic: A federal judge has temporarily blocked…
Trump Is Getting His Way in Latin America. But Bully Tactics Have a Cost—and the Bill Is Coming Due.
Dressed in a navy-blue suit and a light blue tie, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio flanking him on one…