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

In Sparta, Tennessee, handing out flyers in support of the First Amendment could put you on the wrong side of…

Brendan Carr’s authoritarian warning — that networks risk their broadcasting licenses for Iran war reporting that the government doesn’t like…

Gail Nazarene, an elected school board member in New Jersey, thought she was performing her duties as a public servant…

Raeba Pradhan is a FIRE program associate for legislative and policy.On Feb. 12, a group of Maryland legislators introduced HB 1322,…

This essay was originally published in The Dispatch on Feb. 26, 2026.“The FTC is not the speech police,” FTC Chairman…

Google a campus newsroom, click the first result, and you expect to land on a student newspaper’s website. In early…

Texas Tech leaders have somehow convinced themselves that race and gender are not legitimate topics to discuss in a psychology…

On Monday, Late Show host Stephen Colbert said CBS refused to allow him to air his interview with Texas Democratic…

Filming student protesters. Emailing administrators about a newspaper launch. Asking a commentator for additional information to back up their claims.…

Last Monday, FBI Director Kash Patel announced an investigation into Signal group chats that Minnesotans are using to track ICE activity.…

Last night, federal agents arrested journalist Don Lemon in connection with an anti-ICE protest inside a Minnesota church earlier this month.…