freedom of speech

This board, for content moderation, may be part of the answer to problems of online speech and censorship. But U.N. Special Rapporteur David Kaye explains that it is only one part.

It's not a "Supreme Court," as Mark Zuckerberg suggested, but it might be the most interesting development in social media self-regulation in a decade.

Last week, a district court in Maryland dismissed a constitutional challenge to the system of prior restraints that prohibits millions of former intelligence agency employees from…

How might we move toward accountability in the face of irreconcilable clashes between Rights-era and Public Health-era values, particularly given the serious practical and civil…

"If he wanted to, Bolton could this afternoon ..."

An explainer of the key features of the prepublication review process and the significant discretion it gives the government to suppress protected speech—potentially including…

On the morning of Aug. 29, I finished up my lecture notes for my first day teaching a class called “Law of Secrecy.” I would touch on classification, leaking, prepublication…

For more than three years, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University have been litigating a series of Freedom of Information…

In First Amendment lawsuit, groups obtain thousands of documents (through Freedom of Information Act litigation) that raise concerns about how the government censors the writings…

Millions of former public servants who once had access to classified information—and many who didn’t—are subject to a requirement of prepublication review. They are generally…

Tomorrow, Flatiron Books will publish former FBI Director Jim Comey’s book, a much-anticipated memoir in which Comey will reportedly share striking new details from his two decades…

Last week, when I challenged an argument for US liability for war crimes in Yemen, I didn’t anticipate ending up on the other side of a (somewhat heated) Twitter debate with…