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 The crypto-powered gray-market peptide market has surpassed a $100 million annual run rate, according to Chainalysis. Demand surged…
Trillions of taxpayer dollars flow through the federal government every year, and a lot of them don’t end up where…
In brief Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said artificial general intelligence could arrive around 2030, “plus or minus a year.”…
from the get-rid-of-the-chokepoints-and… dept In January 2011, a man in Tahrir Square held up a handwritten sign that read “Facebook:…
The Debug Project at Google (parent company Alphabet) aims to drastically reduce the populations of mosquitoes in California and Florida.…
In brief Michael Saylor pointed to the unprecedented AI buildout as a reason for Bitcoin’s recent decline. The Strategy chairman…
from the ministry-of-truth-back-on-its-bullshit dept History is written by the winners, they say. But it can also be written by losers.…
In August 2025, President Donald Trump deployed 800 National Guardsmen to Washington, D.C., as part of his plan for “restoring…
In briefTether billionaire Christopher Harborne donated another £3 million to Reform UK in the first quarter of the year. BitMEX…
Some tweets live in infamy. Six years ago this week, NPR shared a link on X (Twitter at the time)…
In brief Private sector firms like Coinbase, Apple, and SpaceX collaborated with government agencies to help curb crypto fraud. The…
In the four-second video clip from last December, an unmarked law enforcement truck with tinted windows rolls down a residential…