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Results
28 articles mention free speech in the last 7 days (Oct 20 to Oct 26).
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| PBS NewsHour | 6 citizens sue Trump over media ban, saying it deprives them of news as audience stakeholdersPBS NewsHour In the increasingly bitter legal standoff between President Donald Trump and media outlets whose reporting he dislikes, a new and crucial third party has emerged: citizens who watch and read the news and need it to do their jobs. | 0.30 | |
| Fox News | Colorado pro-life sidewalk counselor battles state 'bubble law' she says curtails First AmendmentFox News Pro-life sidewalk counselor Wendy Faustin tells Fox News Digital that Colorado's "bubble law" could land her in jail for offering abortion alternatives. | 0.60 | |
| Breitbart | Lula's First Move After Dubious Brazil Election Win: Threatening to Censor Conservatives OnlineBreitbart Marxist Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva used his victory speech on Sunday – following a hard-fought election in which a last-minute decision to keep some polling stations open past official time marred trust in the results – to warn that his government will use its power to attempt to censor objectionable political voices online. The post Lula’s First Move After Dubious Brazil Election Win: Threatening to Censor Conservatives Online appeared first on Breitbart . | 0.50 | |
| Reason | Harassment Restraining Order Based Largely on Speech Critical of Zoo Veterinarian,Reason vacated on First Amendment grounds by a Massachusetts appellate court. | 0.70● | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27Hacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4558/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50233929 Points: 97 # Comments: 20 | 0.60 | |
| Hacker News: Front Page | Online censorship is crushing indie webcomicsHacker News: Front Page Article URL: https://xtramagazine.com/culture/online-censorship-indie-webcomics-284463 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50229599 Points: 91 # Comments: 64 | 0.50 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | Opinion | Michigan’s Proposal 2 Aims at Politicians, Hits JournalistsThe Wall Street Journal The measure would strictly limit ‘electioneering’—which it defines to include independent reporting. | 0.60 | |
| Reason | Worst Nathan for You–Style Scheme Ever? A Polling Company Claimed Its Fake Polls Were a Social Experiment.Reason Information regulation is not the way to stop online hoaxes. But that doesn’t mean we should stop searching for the truth. | 0.20 | |
| Washington Examiner | RFK Jr. is making free speech healthy againWashington Examiner Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delivered the warning at the first Turning Point USA conference following the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Kennedy knows about government censorship firsthand. During the Biden years, he became one of the most prominent Americans targeted by the federal government’s campaign to pressure technology companies over disfavored […] | 0.80● | |
| The Wall Street Journal | Opinion | New Mexico Tries to Censor MetaThe Wall Street Journal A judge and the state AG say Facebook didn’t block enough political speech. | 0.70 | |
| Reason | No First Amendment Right Not to Sell Bridal Outfit for Same-Sex WeddingReason From N.Y. State Div. of Hum. Rts. V. D. Auxilly NYC LLC, decided today by New York appellate judges Sallie… The post No First Amendment Right Not to Sell Bridal Outfit for Same-Sex Wedding appeared first on Reason Magazine. | 0.80● | |
| Fox News | Singham-linked nonprofits defy House ultimatum, blast 'MAGA-led witch hunt'Fox News The People's Forum and BreakThrough News reject House Ways and Means Committee demands, accusing Jason Smith's probe of violating First Amendment rights. | 0.40 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | A Student Article About the ‘Cornell 7’ Case Is Prompting a Campus Outcry at ColumbiaThe Wall Street Journal The piece, questioning the “collective frenzy,” has stirred up a free-speech debate on the Ivy League campus. | 0.70 | |
| The Daily Caller | The Next ‘Major Threat’ To Free Speech Online Could Come From This Court CaseThe Daily Caller ‘hope Meta sticks to its guns’ | 0.80● | |
| The Daily Caller | Inside Europe’s Gambit To Control American SpeechThe Daily Caller ‘And so we sued them’ | 0.80● | |
| Reason | FCC Chair Brendan Carr Echoes Trump, Threatens Broadcasters Over 'Fake Polls'Reason Once again, Carr is playing defense for his boss in a way that would clearly run afoul of the First Amendment. | 0.60 | |
| TIME | The Price of Faustian Bargains with TrumpTIME American businesses must be free to challenge a president without fearing retaliation and their owners must remain accountable for their conduct. | 0.30 | |
| Reason | Anti-Transgenderism/Anti-Homosexuality Activist Ordered to Stop Talking About Local Therapist/Pride ActivistReason The Minnesota Court of Appeals just upheld the order. | 0.50 | |
| Reason | A Free Speech Group at Columbia Canceled an Event About Free Speech Over 'Cornell 7' Article ControversyReason A Columbia publication expressed a dissenting view about the alleged gang rape at Cornell. A free speech group condemned the article. | 0.50● | |
| The Daily Caller | The Daily Caller Was Discreetly Censored, Now Companies Are Playing The Blame GameThe Daily Caller The Daily Caller Was Discreetly Censored, Now Companies Are Playing The Blame Game | 0.50 | |
| Semafor | What the GOP activist who confronted El-Sayed really got wrongSemafor If Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan’s Senate race next month, the Saturday clip of him admonishing a GOP activist about freedom of religion will achieve legendary status in his party. | 0.30 | |
| The Guardian | ‘A vehicle to expose prejudice, bias, and stupidity’: Sacha Baron Cohen defends Ali G as satireThe Guardian The actor defended his new film, Ali G: Who Iz I?, saying his aim is to bring people ‘face-to-face with the danger of fanaticism and conspiracy theories’ Sacha Baron Cohen has launched an impassioned defence of satire, the right to offend, and his Ali G character on in a lengthy article for Time magazine . On the eve of the release of his new film, Ali G: Who Iz I?, Baron Cohen described satire as “more important than ever”, adding that “along the way, some people, instead of laughing, wince or worse, take offence.” Continue reading... | 0.30 | |
| Washington Examiner | Europe’s free speech problem is becoming a transatlantic security problemWashington Examiner When British Defence Secretary Wes Streeting traveled to Washington last week to meet Pete Hegseth, he warned that the threats facing Britain and America were growing. He raised alarm about Russia waging war in Europe, and about rapid advances in machinery technology in the hands of adversaries. Appealing to their historic trans-Atlantic friendship — at […] | 0.80● | |
| New York Post | Washington Post columnist reinstated after being canned for Charlie Kirk posts brags her victoryNew York Post An arbitrator ordered The Washington Post to reinstate columnist Karen Attiah and grant her a year of back pay following her firing. | 0.50 | |
| The Wall Street Journal | Opinion | $50,000 Says Corn Pop Was Not a Bad DudeThe Wall Street Journal Free speech keeps winning in Maine. | 0.50 |
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Coverage by source
The share of each source's stories in the last 7 days that match the query, from left to right. Sort the table to reorder the bars.
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Source leans by Media Bias/Fact Check.
| TIME | 1.5% | 1 | 67 |
| The Guardian | 0.1% | 1 | 703 |
| The Atlantic | 1.5% | 1 | 69 |
| PBS NewsHour | 0.6% | 1 | 159 |
| Hacker News: Front Page | 1.3% | 2 | 159 |
| Semafor | 0.6% | 1 | 166 |
| Washington Examiner | 0.6% | 2 | 324 |
| Reason | 6.2% | 7 | 113 |
| The Wall Street Journal | 5.6% | 4 | 71 |
| New York Post | 0.1% | 1 | 883 |
| The Daily Caller | 1.8% | 3 | 170 |
| Fox News | 0.4% | 3 | 732 |
| Breitbart | 0.3% | 1 | 404 |
Coverage by lean
The share of stories that match the query, in the last 7 days, 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-leaning4 of 15 sources
- 0.3%
- Least biased2 of 8 sources
- 0.2%
- Right-leaning7 of 15 sources
- 1.0%
Lean index +2.6: 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 match the query. 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.
2 sources have no MBFC bias score and are not shown.
Source leans based on ratings by Media Bias/Fact Check.