Keyword topic
75 articles from 23 news outlets, Sep 27 to Oct 26
Share of stories per day
The share of each source's stories that mention free speech, averaged over sources with at least 3 stories that day.
Coverage by source over time
One ridge per source that mentioned free speech, from the most left-leaning on top: how high it rises each day is the share of that source's stories that mention it.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Who picked it up when
Fox News mentioned it first (Sep 29, 2026, 7:18 PM EDT). Left-leaning outlets followed 21 hours later, least biased outlets 6 days later.
One row per source that mentioned free speech, from the most left-leaning on top: a dot for each article, on a bar for each stretch of its coverage (a pause of more than 24 hours starts a new one). Hover or tap a dot for the headline, click it to read the article.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories that mention free speech, Sep 27 to Oct 26, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
Source lean:leftcenterright
Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| Vox | 0.8% | 1 | 125 |
| The New York Times | 0.1% | 1 | 1183 |
| TIME | 0.4% | 1 | 271 |
| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 941 |
| The Atlantic | 1.1% | 3 | 274 |
| NPR | 0.3% | 1 | 393 |
| PBS NewsHour | 0.4% | 2 | 559 |
| Hacker News: Front Page | 1.1% | 2 | 189 |
| Semafor | 0.2% | 1 | 452 |
| The Hill | 0.4% | 5 | 1119 |
| CBS News | 0.1% | 1 | 1511 |
| Washington Examiner | 0.5% | 2 | 409 |
| Reason | 6.3% | 19 | 302 |
| Fox Business | 0.4% | 1 | 230 |
| The Free Press | 1.5% | 1 | 67 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 3.2% | 4 | 125 |
| New York Post | 0.3% | 6 | 2319 |
| The Daily Caller | 1.0% | 5 | 496 |
| National Review | 0.5% | 1 | 195 |
| The Daily Wire | 0.4% | 3 | 842 |
| Newsmax | 0.3% | 1 | 391 |
| Fox News | 0.4% | 10 | 2406 |
| Breitbart | 0.2% | 3 | 1819 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that mention free speech, Sep 27 to Oct 26, averaged over the outlets of each political lean with at least 3 stories. The groups differ in size, so a single outlet weighs more in the smaller ones.
- Left-leaning7 of 15 sources
- 0.2%
- Least biased3 of 8 sources
- 0.2%
- Right-leaning13 of 15 sources
- 1.0%
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.
Lean index +2.8: covered more by right-leaning outlets
Each outlet at its MBFC bias score, from −10 (far left) to +10 (far right), as high as the share of its stories that mention free speech. The lean index is the average score of the outlets covering it, weighted by that share.
lean indexour sources' average (+0.4)leftcenterright
Bias scores by Media Bias/Fact Check.
3 sources have no MBFC bias score and are not shown.
Lean index per day
Related keywords
Keywords that appear in the same articles as free speech, Sep 27 to Oct 26: the share of its articles that also mention them, with the number of shared articles.
The search icon lists the articles that mention both.
Example articles
The article that features free speech most, per source.
- VoxThe “grim” state of free speech in the US
- The New York TimesBruno Kramm, German Goth Musician Who Moonlighted in Politics, Dies at 58
- TIMEThe Price of Faustian Bargains with Trump
- The Guardian‘A vehicle to expose prejudice, bias, and stupidity’: Sacha Baron Cohen defends Ali G as satire
- The AtlanticAll the Things You’re Not Allowed to Say In Texas
- NPRDisney, ABC battle Trump's FCC in court over free speech protections
- PBS NewsHourABC and Trump's FCC battle in federal court over free speech and jurisdiction issues
- Hacker News: Front PageI refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27
- SemaforWhat the GOP activist who confronted El-Sayed really got wrong
- The HillMahmoud Khalil takes legal fight to Supreme Court
- CBS NewsJudge extends temporary block on Trump's media ban of CNN, MS NOW, Politico
- Washington ExaminerRFK Jr. is making free speech healthy again
- ReasonNo First Amendment Right Not to Sell Bridal Outfit for Same-Sex Wedding
- Fox BusinessMark Ruffalo blasts Paramount-Warner Bros. merger after judge clears $110B Hollywood deal
- The Free PressSally Rooney Is No Free Speech Hero
- The Wall Street JournalOpinion | New Mexico Tries to Censor Meta
- New York PostWashington Post columnist reinstated after being canned for Charlie Kirk posts brags her victory
- The Daily CallerThe Next ‘Major Threat’ To Free Speech Online Could Come From This Court Case
- National ReviewCensorship Prevails Among Those Who Decry Censorship
- The Daily WireAmerican Ally Sentences Man To Death For Insulting Mohammed On Facebook
- NewsmaxPoll: 4 in 10 Students Back Prosecuting Speech
- Fox NewsJONATHAN TURLEY: France's free speech crackdown shows what happens when politicians define truth
- BreitbartLula's First Move After Dubious Brazil Election Win: Threatening to Censor Conservatives Online
All articles
Every article that mentions free speech, Sep 27 to Oct 26. Relevance says how central it is to the article; ● marks a mention in the title. Combine with another keyword, text or sources.