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.
President Donald Trump’s original plan for addressing the purported threat posed by the longstanding U.S. trade deficit, which the Supreme…
Based on an essay by Eric Kaufmann, presented by Zoe Booth.Australia has long been regarded as one of the most…
In brief Ripple plans to secure an Australian Financial Services License by acquiring BC Payments. APAC payments volume nearly doubled…
from the the-play-is-unreviewable dept I’ve spent a lot of digital ink detailing just how bad RFK Jr. has been in…
In brief BullshitBench tests whether AI can detect nonsensical questions. Most major models confidently answer unanswerable prompts. Anthropic’s Claude dominates…
In brief Brookings says China’s AI industry is advancing through efficiency, global adoption, and integration into physical machines. While U.S.…
In brief Basketball.fun is offering refunds to digital pack buyers who don’t want to wait for the platform’s marketplace to…
In brief IBM researchers are working with Signal and Threema to design messaging systems resistant to quantum attacks. Cryptographer Ethan…
from the the-death-of-informed-consensus dept Ideally, the U.S. public is supposed to be able to comment on government policy proceedings, and…
As established in Tinker, students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse…
In brief A Judge has blocked Perplexity’s AI shopping agent from Amazon. The case is testing whether AI agents inherit…
CNN was forced to retract an X post on Tuesday after publishing a tone-deaf and inadvertently hilarious statement—one in the…