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 man or woman scorned may understandably want revenge. And in some states, aggrieved exes can take alleged spouse-stealers to…
In brief Brazil blocked access to prediction market platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket, citing investor protection concerns. Finance Minister Dario…
It has been six days since President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at facilitating regulatory review of psychedelics…
In brief Tennessee has become the second U.S. state to impose a sweeping ban on Bitcoin ATMs, which is set…
from the playing-favorites-with-religions dept In June 2025, the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court upheld what would seem to have been an…
Defending his supposed authority to punish a member of Congress for criticizing him, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth argues that retired…
In brief South Korean police arrested a 40-year-old man for distributing an AI-generated photo of escaped wolf Neukgu. Daejeon city…
Is the Trump administration trying to unmask anonymous online critics in violation of the First Amendment? Two lawsuits have been…
In brief Anthropic’s latest Claude models achieved 95-96% on political neutrality tests and 99.8-100% on election policy compliance. The company…
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…