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 brief Oil-linked perpetual futures on Hyperliquid recorded roughly $991 million in 24-hour trading volume, far exceeding activity for similar…
A man who was arrested and prosecuted for drug trafficking after unreliable field tests flagged his prescription pills as fentanyl…
In brief Global banking firm Wells Fargo applied for a trademark for the wordmark “WFUSD.” The goods and service categories…
Last week, the Supreme Court used its emergency docket to review to cases from two lower courts’ emergency docket. The…
In brief A study found that most AI chatbots will help teens plan violent attacks. Some bots provided detailed weapon…
from the good-deals-on-cool-stuff dept Learn key concepts, from data preprocessing to building and evaluating models, with hands-on projects to cement…
Virginia is poised to become the 11th state with a ban on “assault weapons,” an arbitrarily defined category of politically…
In brief Ripple is buying back up to $750 million in shares from investors and employees, Bloomberg reported. The buyback…
from the avoidable-tragedies dept This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. Images from the missile strike in southern…
“My child can’t read!” That’s become a common complaint from parents. Why? It might be because kids are distracted by…
In brief Grammarly has disabled its Expert Review AI feature after criticism from academics and writers. The tool generated writing…
from the I’m-sorry-I-can’t-do-that,-Dave dept Last month we reported on a strange story in two strange parts: first, a coder had…