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Big Tech and Free Speech
Facebook’s Fact-Checkers Changed the Way I See Tech—and Speech—Forever
I thought I was sharing an important story on Covid’s origins. How naive I was.
Margi Conklin
The Debanking of America
What do Muslims, January 6 rioters, and Melania Trump all have in common? They were kicked off the financial grid.
Rupa Subramanya
Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors
To small thinkers, free speech is a wilderness of potential threats. Thankfully, America wasn’t founded by small thinkers.
Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi on the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex
In the past few weeks, there’s been an increasing number of threats to freedom of speech around the world.
Bari Weiss
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Abigail Shrier: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Our Government Censors
What are the chances that a President Kamala Harris would resist pressuring social media companies into censorship? Based on her record: Not great.
Abigail Shrier
New Hate Speech Laws Threaten Freedom Across the West
Those fighting censorship in Canada, or Britain, or Ireland, wish they had a First Amendment to fall back on.
Rupa Subramanya
The Government Censored Me and Other Scientists. We Fought Back—and Won.
Last week, a federal appeals court confirmed that science cannot function without free speech. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya reflects on a victory for…
Jay Bhattacharya
I Report for The Free Press. And I Can’t Post My Stories on Facebook.
Canada’s Online News Act was meant to force social media companies to pay for news content. What it’s actually done is hurt democracy.
Rupa Subramanya
Our Reporting at Twitter
If the story of Twitter's former overlords is about their prejudices and power trips, the question now is what Elon Musk will do with the powerful tools…
Bari Weiss
What the Hell Happened to PayPal?
In 1998, the payments app was created to empower individuals. Today, it’s a cornerstone of our emerging social-credit system.
Rupa Subramanya
Elon Conquers The Twitterverse
Our chattering class claims Musk is a supervillain. The truth is simpler: He wants free speech. They don't.
Mike Solana
How Big Tech Is Strangling Your Freedom
A conversation with entrepreneur and investor David Sacks on protecting civil liberties in the digital public square.
Bari Weiss
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