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.
In a scene that perfectly captures the strangeness of American politics today, President Donald Trump, a billionaire and self-styled champion…
In brief Developers are adopting stablecoins for payouts and in-game transactions as speculative models lose steam. Stablecoins processed $27.6 trillion…
In its latest splurge, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will spend nearly $140 million on six Boeing 737 planes…
In brief OpenAI has introduced new internal tests for project-level performance. Scientific and mathematical benchmarks showed higher scores than prior…
During oral argument in Trump v. Slaughter, Justice Barrett asked Solicitor General Sauer a series of questions about the relationship between…
In brief Save the Children launched a Bitcoin fund that holds donations for up to four years. The organization said…
from the ctrl-alt-speech dept Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and…
A new report out of Columbia University documents abuses of faculty prerogatives and general outrageous misbehavior on the part of…
In brief Do Kwon was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He pleaded guilty to a series of fraud charges…
The growth of the U.S. economy is being fueled by the hectic quest to build out massive data centers to…
In brief Disco’s GenTabs feature turns clusters of websites into AI-generated dashboards and tools. Google hasn’t detailed how the browser…
from the selective-recall dept We’ve already written several times about the danger posed by adding AI to law enforcement incident/arrest…