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This article originally appeared in The Los Angeles Times on Aug. 1, 2026. According to Times editorial policy, the newspaper…

The city commission of Emporia, Kansas, has endured countless hours of public criticism. What it could not endure was a…

When Ben Mueller started searching for news in California’s Marin County, he immediately thought of Jeffrey Epstein. He figured America’s third-richest county…

PHILADELPHIA, July 30, 2026 — U.S. colleges are increasingly eliminating or narrowing restrictive speech codes, continuing an encouraging trend that…

This is part of a weekly series on AI and free speech.If you follow politics, you’ve probably seen an ad…

Michelle Liao is a rising senior at the University of Michigan studying psychology and political science.Last summer, a former student…

When former University of Pittsburgh student and freelance journalist Henry Bard tried to get records from his campus police department…

In 1999, a college dropout named Shawn Fanning and his friend Sean Parker released a piece of software called Napster…

A recent records request revealed that a Canadian government department is working up a potential new federal strategy on misinformation. But…

Chloe Ratner is a political science major at Yale University. Last summer, she worked at the Department of Justice Human…

FIRE’s Free Speech Dispatch covers new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers…

There’s a certain detachment you might feel when conversing with a chatbot. You type a question into a box and…