Finchem, who wants to oversee voting in Arizona, has a penchant for conspiracy theories.

Some of the “classical liberals” who founded an ersatz college for “free speech” sure seem more at home in Viktor Orbán’s repressive regime.

Bari Weiss and other self-anointed defenders of free speech used the author’s stabbing to accuse the left of rhetorical excess—and ignored the very relevant scourge of book-banning by the American right.

Salman Rushdie has spent decades campaigning for free speech. The attempt on his life came amid a crack down on freedom of expression around the world.

The billionaire and self-declared “free speech absolutist” now owns 9.2 percent of the social network.

Should academic freedom really protect those who make false and morally repellent claims? It’s time for a rethink.

The new University of Austin seeks to be higher education’s premier institution of monetizing moral panics.

The high court will decide whether the First Amendment prevents elected bodies from disciplining their own members.

Can the ideals of free speech and social justice be reconciled?

Companies like Israel’s NSO Group have revolutionized how governments spy on their citizens. Can they be tamed?

“It’s about intimidation—and not of me,” says the University of Virginia’s Larry Sabato

The former president’s class-action suit against Twitter and Facebook is a typically ham-fisted grab for power and money. It can die in the courts and still serve him well.

Michael Powell frames policing and racial justice as issues moving the ACLU away from its core mission around speech. It’s a false antagonism—and a trap.

The social media giant claims it will no longer have separate rules for politicians, but that only solves part of what might be an existential problem.

Facebook is driving content moderators toward despair through mismanagement, vague policies, and overwork. I’d had enough.

The popular chat app is exploding in popularity in some Middle Eastern countries. Can it keep its users safe?

The Facebook Oversight Board upheld Trump’s ban, but ridiculed the company in the process: “In applying a vague, standardless penalty ... Facebook seeks to avoid its responsibilities.”

The senator’s new book is a case study in why conservatives struggle to be populists.

Does the First Amendment confer a right never to face public criticism? No, but the high court may be forced to settle the matter anew.

The jailing of a dissident and two lawsuits reveal Twitter’s complicity with MBS’s dictatorship.