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@SpeechFuture

Reaffirming freedom of expression as the bedrock of free and thriving societies through actionable research, empowering tools, and principled advocacy.

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🚨 NEW REPORT 🤖 We asked 8 major AI chatbots to generate content about lawful, but controversial issues. We then scored and ranked each chatbot, factoring in company policies, model behavior, transparency, and openness to debate.
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🚨 Our Response to the White House’s National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence We welcome policy initiatives that promote free speech and access to information in the context of artificial intelligence. At the same time, much will depend on how these principles are ultimately defined, implemented, and enforced in practice. In this regard, we commend the Policy Framework’s commitment to defend the First Amendment and its efforts to prevent government coercion and attempts to censor expression or compel speech. It is also encouraging that, unlike recent Executive Orders, the framework does not emphasize neutrality or “truth-seeking.” At the same time, previous statements and initiatives framed in culture-war terms counsel caution in assessing these positive developments. Importantly, we hope that the framework's emphasis on "preventing AI systems from being used to silence or censor lawful political expression or dissent" means that federal and state governments will be prevented from using AI platforms as a tool for censorship, and not that AI platforms will be compelled to generate content that violates their own policies. Additionally, the framework's age assurance recommendation gives us pause. While framed around parental attestation rather than hard ID verification, it still conditions access to lawful speech on identity disclosure, which Reno and Ashcroft strongly suggest will not survive strict scrutiny. Any scheme in which the government mandates a requirement for identification before accessing information chills the anonymous readership that the First Amendment has long protected.
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Imagine if the FCC threatened broadcasters’ licenses for questioning the Iraq War narrative in 2003—especially given what we now know. What would have been shocking then is happening now. And it's only one of many outrageous free speech threats we cover this week:
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When governments start talking about revoking broadcast licenses, it’s rarely just about “administrative rules.” That's what the Court of Justice of the European Union found in its recent ruling against Hungary, which rejected the renewal of an independent radio station's license on opaque grounds.
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Ashkhen Kazaryan
Ashkhen Kazaryan@Ashkhen·
After a freezing 70 min line to get in I am inside the Senate hearing “Liability or Deniability? Platform Power as Section 230 Turns 30” follow along for live tweeting as my fingers unfreeze #Section230
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Natalie Alkiviadou
Natalie Alkiviadou@NatalieAlk·
My new piece on @SpeechFuture's Bedrock Principle: Silencing a Frequency? The CJEU’s Ruling on Hungary, Klubrádió, and Media Freedom:
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The Kremlin’s tightening internet controls and draconian penalties for dissent have real consequences for ordinary people seeking to share their beliefs, follow their conscience, or speak their mind. Over at @speechfuture’s The Bedrock Principle, the Forum’s Beth Kerley examines Russia’s long-standing pattern of censorship, propaganda, and repression—even as state-supported outlets like RT brazenly claim the mantle of “freedom.” She argues that “The global contest between autocratic and democratic systems, governance models, and cyber norms is also a struggle for the future of free expression.” To unpack Russia’s investments in crushing free speech at home while faking it abroad—and to learn how civil society gives voice where the Kremlin seeks to silence—read the full analysis here: bedrockprinciple.com/p/faking-free-…
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The Kremlin has attempted to co-opt the language of "freedom" and "human rights" to justify its expansive censorship regime. In a new guest essay, Beth Kerley calls on democracies to offer an "unapologetic embrace and defense" of free expression to fight back.

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@Ashkhen Carr doesn't have to follow through with revoking broadcast licenses. His aim is to chill speech he doesn't like.
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This weekend, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr warned broadcasters that running what he calls “hoaxes and news distortions” about the Iran war could jeopardize their broadcast licenses. But the First Amendment doesn't have a "fake news" exemption, and it never has, @Ashkhen writes.
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Ashkhen Kazaryan
Ashkhen Kazaryan@Ashkhen·
Does the FCC Chairman have a license to chill? No broadcast license needs to be revoked for the damage for free speech to be done. One public warning and the editorial winds shift. Read my breakdown below
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We have to confront hate speech directly to heal divides. But banning speech only pushes harmful ideas underground, and could backfire against the very people it aims to protect. At Schweizer Monat, @NatalieAlk shares the best way to combat hate without resorting to censorship.
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Jacob Mchangama
Jacob Mchangama@JMchangama·
Pub date is still three weeks away, but apparently a few copies have escaped the lab for early human experimentation. 📚🧪
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I'm sure the expert class that has spent a decade warning about the existential threat of disinformation is thrilled to finally have found a public official willing to take action.......
Brendan Carr@BrendanCarrFCC

Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change!

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🚨 The First Amendment doesn't have a “fake news” exception. The FCC threatening broadcast licenses over “distorted” coverage is exactly why the news distortion rule is unconstitutional. The government doesn't get to be the arbiter of journalistic truth.
Brendan Carr@BrendanCarrFCC

Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions - also known as the fake news - have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if they do not. And frankly, changing course is in their own business interests since trust in legacy media has now fallen to an all time low of just 9% and are ratings disasters. The American people have subsidized broadcasters to the tune of billions of dollars by providing free access to the nation’s airwaves. It is very important to bring trust back into media, which has earned itself the label of fake news. When a political candidate is able to win a landslide election victory after in the face of hoaxes and distortions, there is something very wrong. It means the public has lost faith and confidence in the media. And we can’t allow that to happen. Time for change!

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Has Section 230 turned free speech advocates into advocates for tech companies instead of users? At the #FreeSpeechSummit2025, @CELEUP Director Agustina Del Campo argues that legal protections for online speech rely on advocates to ensure that platforms champion free expression.
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