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In baffling decision, Harvard excuses violence against student briefly disrupting Chinese diplomat’s speech

Harvard student Cosette Wu disrupts a speech by Chinese Ambassador Xie Feng at the Harvard Kennedy School, holding a sign that reads "China Lies" on April 20, 2024. Wu then has her arm pulled down and...

2024-10-24

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Civil liberties orgs line up to support professor’s appeal in land acknowledgment lawsuit

University of Washington Professor Stuart Reges When the University of Washington encouraged faculty to include a statement in each course syllabus acknowledging that the school sits on land once held...

2024-10-23

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Penn State stifles student newspaper, prohibits voter registration in brazen display of rights abuses before general election

Shutterstock.com Dark clouds are settling over Happy Valley. This election season, Pennsylvania State University appears to be unleashing its own October Surprise — against its students. In a brazen d...

2024-10-23

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Ilhan Omar’s Daughter Has Received Reparations Payments From Her White Friends

“has taken radical positions, most recently becoming heavily involved in the anti-Israel movement” This is positively baffling. The young woman is the daughter of a member of Congress and she attends ...

2024-10-25

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A year in campus speech controversies — What does the data reveal?

Ringo Chiu / Shutterstock.com Pro-Palestinian protesters gather at an encampment at the University of California, Los Angeles on Monday, April 29, 2024. What topics do you think are difficult to discu...

2024-10-15

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BREAKING: Supreme Court revives lawsuit of citizen journalist arrested for asking a question

Saenz Photography Citizen Journalist and FIRE plaintiff Priscilla Villarreal. LAREDO, Texas, Oct. 15, 2024 — Texas police threw a journalist in jail for doing her job. Today, the highest court in the ...

2024-10-15

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The AAUP continues to back away from academic freedom

Shutterstock.com This week, the American Association of University Professors gave its blessing to mandatory “diversity statements” in hiring — as long as the faculty votes for them first. FIRE has lo...

2024-10-11

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Liberals Melt Down and Throw Everything at Trump as His Momentum Grows — Episode 13: Legal Insurrection Podcast

Trump is dominating the headlines as the election race tightens. We dive into the media’s last-ditch efforts to take down Trump as his momentum continues to build. We’ll also cover Doug Emhoff’s growi...

2024-10-24

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Free Speech and Social Media

As we confront the problems of the digital speech age, we must look for solutions that preserve expressive freedom for all. We won’t do that by weakening the First Amendment. It took centuries for ind...

2024-10-11

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Misinformation versus disinformation, explained

If you’ve paid even a little attention to the national discourse over the last few years, you’ve probably heard the words “misinformation” and “disinformation” thrown around a lot. Although the terms ...

2024-10-11

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A tale of two universities: Why South Carolina soared, and Harvard didn’t, in FIRE’s free speech rankings

Shutterstock.com “With great power comes great responsibility,” Uncle Ben famously tells Peter Parker. When it comes to colleges and universities, it’s great prestige that brings great responsibility....

2024-10-10

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IDF Uncovers Documents Showing Six Al Jazeera Journalists Are Hamas, Islamic Jihad Terrorists

Some of the exposed Al Jazeera staffers are senior operatives in Hamas’s terrorist Nukhba Force and Nuseirat Battalion which spearheaded the October 7 massacre, media reports confirm. The Israel Defen...

2024-10-23

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Florida health department defies First Amendment, threatens to prosecute TV stations for airing abortion rights ad

Floridians Protecting Freedom In the ad, a woman named Caroline from Tampa talks about needing an abortion after she developed a brain tumor and claims Florida law now bans abortions in cases like her...

2024-10-10

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Police killings worsen crisis of mob violence against Pakistan’s blasphemers

This year, FIRE launched the Free Speech Dispatch , a regular series covering new and continuing censorship trends and challenges around the world. Our goal is to help readers better understand the gl...

2024-10-07

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Recording police in public: What you need to know

The First Amendment protects your right to take photos or videos of government agents in public spaces. The ever-expanding ability to instantly and accurately document everything, from the mundane to ...

2024-10-04

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E. coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders in Multiple States

Some are suspicious of the timing, though reports indicate 49 people in 10 states have been sickened. McDonald’s has been the center of media attention this week after President Donald Trump did a bri...

2024-10-23

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College Protests and the First Amendment

What are your rights when it comes to protesting on a college campus? What forms of protest are protected? What is not? FIRE answers those questions and many more in our extensive library of legal exp...

2024-10-04

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Free speech and football: FIRE's college football matchup of the week is Mizzou v. Texas A&M

Kevin Jairaj / Imagn Images Texas A&M defensive linemen celebrate during the first half against the Arkansas Razorbacks. It’s another all SEC matchup this week. No. 9 Missouri versus No. 25 Texas A&M,...

2024-10-04

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Trump Has the Momentum, Kamala Has the Cringe

Two weeks from the election, Trump has the momentum, Trump has the polling, Harris has the cringe and people seem to be running for the exits on her and that’s probably the worst sign that she could p...

2024-10-23

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Trump GA Case: Nathan Wade Met With WH Counsel, Fani Willis Started Investigation Before She took Office

Wade also admitted he had to attend “RICO school” because he never handled a RICO case before. The House Judiciary Committee released the transcript of Nathan Wade, the former special prosecutor in fo...

2024-10-21