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  • WATCH: Biden condemns 'replacement theory' in speech during an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month event

    WATCH: Biden condemns 'replacement theory' in speech during an Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage Month event

    May 17, 2022 06:35 PM EDT

    Fresh from a visit to Buffalo, New York to mourn with grieving families on Tuesday, President Joe Biden exhorted the nation to reject what he angrily labeled the poison of white supremacy.

  • Unanimous Supreme Court rules Boston violated free speech rights in Christian flag case

    Unanimous Supreme Court rules Boston violated free speech rights in Christian flag case

    May 02, 2022 04:15 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Monday that Boston violated the free speech rights of a conservative activist when it refused his request to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole outside City Hall. Justice Stephen Breyer wrote for the court that the city discriminated against the activist, Harold ...

  • Why a vocal Turkish activist's prison sentence is a 'nail in the coffin' for free speech

    Why a vocal Turkish activist's prison sentence is a 'nail in the coffin' for free speech

    May 01, 2022 09:35 PM EDT

    ... don't care about the reaction coming from the west anymore. Geoff Bennett: So what then does this incident say about the state of free speech in Turkey? Ece Temelkuran: Well, this is the last nail in the coffin of freedom of speech and also democracy. Because at least since ...

  • Turning Twitter into a 'free speech' haven might not be as easy as Elon Musk thinks

    Turning Twitter into a 'free speech' haven might not be as easy as Elon Musk thinks

    Apr 26, 2022 02:31 PM EDT

    ... experience in moderating an influential social media platform will be a problem if he successfully takes over the company."If we want to protect free speech online, then we can't live in a world where the richest person on Earth can just purchase a platform that millions of people ...

  • What Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter may mean for the company and free speech

    What Elon Musk's $44 billion purchase of Twitter may mean for the company and free speech

    Apr 25, 2022 10:53 PM EDT

    Elon Musk and Twitter announced a $44 billion deal Monday for Musk to buy the company and take it over. The deal would be the largest to take a public company private in decades. It's also led to major concerns about how Musk, who is one of the world's richest men, will approach questions of...

  • EU deal will push Google, Facebook, others to police platforms against hate speech, disinformation

    EU deal will push Google, Facebook, others to police platforms against hate speech, disinformation

    Apr 23, 2022 02:13 PM EDT

    European Union officials clinched the agreement in principle on the Digital Services Act after lengthy final negotiations that began Friday. The law will also force tech companies to make it easier for users to flag problems, ban online ads aimed at kids and empower regulators to punish noncompliance with billions in fines.

  • Supreme Court reject Texas college official's claim that censure violates free speech rights

    Supreme Court reject Texas college official's claim that censure violates free speech rights

    Mar 24, 2022 05:57 PM EDT

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court ruled Thursday against an elected public college official in Texas who complained that his colleagues' censure of his actions violated his free speech rights. The justices had stepped into a yearslong dispute between the Houston Community College board of trustees and one of its ...

  • WATCH: Sen. Ben Sasse questions Jackson about Supreme Court cameras, free speech on campus

    WATCH: Sen. Ben Sasse questions Jackson about Supreme Court cameras, free speech on campus

    Mar 23, 2022 09:27 PM EDT

    Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., questioned Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on March 23 as the Judiciary Committee continued its Supreme Court confirmation hearings. Sasse questioned her about how her views as a judge have evolved, public trust in the high court, how she sees the issue of free speech on ...

  • WATCH: Ukrainian President Zelensky pleads for help from Canada in speech to parliament

    WATCH: Ukrainian President Zelensky pleads for help from Canada in speech to parliament

    Mar 15, 2022 05:47 PM EDT

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has asked Canadians to imagine bombs landing in their communities as urged the nation to apply great economic and military pressure on Russia — including a no-fly zone over his country.

  • Nationwide effort to ban books challenges freedom of speech

    Nationwide effort to ban books challenges freedom of speech

    Mar 10, 2022 11:30 PM EDT

    ... left. Is our country now politicized in this way, in the way we look at books? Suzanne Nossel: Yes, I worry that sort of free speech is losing its grounding on both the right and the left. On the left, we see a lot of people, and particularly in a ...

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