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FIRE to Supreme Court: Stop government bullies from intimidating social media platforms

Fred Schilling / Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States The Supreme Court as composed June 30, 2022 to present. Clockwise from top left: Amy Coney Barrett, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh,...

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FIRE’s annual Spotlight on Speech Codes report reveals 85% of colleges restrict protected speech

Shutterstock.com FIRE’s annual Spotlight on Speech Codes report , released earlier this month, paints a dire picture of free speech on college campuses. In the 2024 report, FIRE rated the policies tha...

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Spotlight on Speech Codes

FIRE publishes an annual speech code report that condenses the considerable research in our Spotlight database into an accessible picture of the state of free expression on our nation’s campuses, prov...

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The Soviet Pathos of Antizionism

“Soviet propaganda painted Zionism as a racist, fascist, Nazi, settler-colonial, imperialist ideology that opposed everything that socialism and communism stood for.” The government of South Africa re...

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Murthy v. Missouri (also known as Missouri v. Biden)

Search all Cases From behind the scenes, various government officials from the Biden administration pressured, cajoled, and intimidated social media platforms into censoring speech and particular spea...

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D.C. high school bans student club from screening documentary critical of Israel

Shutterstock.com Over the past few months, FIRE has battled a surge in censorship of speech about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . The speech controversies often play out on college campuses. But as...

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New York University: University Suspends Faculty Member for Denial of Hamas War Crimes

New York University Search all Cases On January, 25, 2024, New York University announced it had suspended and was investigating adjunct professor Amin Husain for comments he made at a December 7, 2023...

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Mollie Hemingway of ‘The Federalist’ Testifies Before Congress About the Issues Facing American Elections

“The American system of self-governance is under attack.” Mollie Hemingway, the conservative writer who helped to create The Federalist , testified before Congress this week, outlining the concerns sh...

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New FIRE report finds 85% of top colleges have restrictive speech codes

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 31, 2024 — After over a decade of progress, the number of colleges and universities with the harshest student speech codes increased for the second year in a row. “This is not an an...

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The University of Chicago Kalven Report

This report is the product of a 1967 faculty committee formed at the University of Chicago. The committee’s purpose was to create a report regarding the school’s “role in political and social action.”...

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Fast Facts: Adopting Institutional Neutrality

When colleges and universities take positions on social or political issues, they weaken the conditions for open debate and chill the speech of would-be dissenters on campus. “The instrument of dissen...

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Florida Grand Jury’s COVID Policy Report: Interventions “Not Administered Based on the Best Available Scientific Data”

The Grand Jury followed the science behind COVID policies…and found little trace of it to follow. Back in 2022, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asked the state Supreme Court to impanel a statewide grand jur...

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Institutional Neutrality and the Kalven Report

The Kalven Report concisely expresses the core principles of institutional neutrality and explains why they matter. It also offers much-needed guidance on gray areas, such as how college leaders can n...

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Fursona non grata: Oklahoma lawmaker moves to ban ‘furryism’ in public schools

Kevin Jairaj / USA TODAY Sports University of Oklahoma Sooners mascot during the game at Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Such a mascot may be prohibited at K-12 public schools if an Oklahoma...

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‘Good day for free expression’ after Fifth Circuit blocks Texas’ controversial book rating law

Rex Wholster / Shutterstock.com The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana. In a victory for school libraries and the vendors who sell them books, a Texas law t...

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Trump Georgia Case: DA Fani Willis Confirms Relationship With Special Prosecutor

Willis said she would not recuse herself from the case. Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis admitted she had a relationship with special prosecutor Nathan Wade, one of the prosecutors she appo...

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VICTORY: Michigan city recognizes First Amendment right to ‘demean’ government officials

Jake M. Media / Shutterstock.com Citizens of Bay City are now able to speak freely at city commission meetings — even when they talk about city officials or employees in ways the commission might not ...

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FIRE sides with NRA, ACLU in First Amendment Supreme Court case

Shutterstock.com The First Amendment does not let officials punish people merely because they maintain or espouse certain views. Yet government censors are not so easily dissuaded. Officials often try...

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Court upholds First Amendment rights of Notre Dame student newspaper

Postmodern Studio / Shutterstock.com A judge ruled last week in favor of The Irish Rover, an independent student publication at Notre Dame, in a defamation suit. FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiativ...

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U.S. Syphilis Cases Surge to Highest Level in 70 Years

CDC reports 445 out of every 100,000 tested immigrants come up positive for syphilis. Meanwhile, the FDA is now allowing import of drugs for syphilis treatment…because American supplies are running lo...

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