Celebrate the truth. Don’t weaken Texas anti-SLAPP law
Speaking the truth shouldn’t subject you to drummed-up lawsuits, endless legal proceedings, and potentially bankrupting legal fees, journalist Charles Ornstein told us
‘Fox & Friends’ no friends to free press
Recent comments by ‘Fox & Friends’ co-hosts that police should ‘go after’ a journalist for reporting the news are as shortsighted as they are wrong
Hands off Texas anti-SLAPP law
We asked a SLAPP defendant and her lawyer to explain how proposed changes to Texas law could harm consumers and free speech
Secret U.K. spy order imperils press freedom
By demanding a back door into end-to-end encrypted iCloud data, the U.K. undermines journalist-source confidentiality
Trump attacks oversight, Dems attack whistleblowers
If Snowden is a traitor, what should we call all the intelligence officials who broke the law to spy on Americans and lied about it?
Tech companies platform the First Amendment
Substack and Amazon Web Services’ First Amendment defense of journalist Jack Poulson should be a model for other platforms
Privacy protection shouldn’t come at free speech’s expense
A troubling federal court decision that upholds New Jersey’s Daniel’s Law lowers the First Amendment bar for privacy laws
‘Who are we to judge,’ ask … judges, upholding TikTok ban
We warned that the TikTok ban forgets the lessons of the Pentagon Papers case. Last week’s court decision upholding the law proved our point
X goes ‘thermonuclear’ against media donors
Social platform’s unconstitutional demand for Media Matters’ donor information imperils nonprofit news, argues legal brief by FPF
Anatomy of a censorship campaign: A tech exec’s crusade to stifle journalism
Tactics used by businessman against reporting he dislikes are increasingly common. Here’s how reporters can be prepared and fight back
