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Big Tech and Free Speech
What Happened to Silicon Valley’s Most Infamous Thought Criminal?
James Damore, the author of the ‘misogynist’ Google memo, was banished from the tech world and became a digital hermit. Now, his ideas have been…
Johanna Berkman
The Whistleblower Meta Is Trying to Silence
An arbitrator has barred Sarah Wynn-Williams from promoting her explosive new book. We got one of the only interviews.
Bari Weiss
Both Left and Right Are Wrong About Mahmoud Khalil
Anyone who says the law is obvious here is not telling the truth.
Jed Rubenfeld
The ICE Detention of a Columbia Student Is Just the Beginning
A White House official says that Mahmoud Khalil posed a ‘threat to the foreign policy and national security interests of the United States.’ And that…
Gabe Kaminsky, Madeleine Rowley, and Maya Sulkin
WATCH: The Free Press Returns to Congress
‘The Orwellian Big Brother punishing you for expressing an impolitic thought is now the law of the land in the land of Orwell.’
The Editors
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DOGE and the Backlash to the Backlash
We’ll have to reckon with revealing, if regrettable, public proclamations if we want to survive as a society.
Kat Rosenfield
Martin Gurri: The Great American Debate Begins Again
Trump’s policies matter. But it is the restoration of speech—unencumbered and unafraid—that is most important of all.
Martin Gurri
‘We the People Are for TikTok’
TikTok is arguably illegal. But influencers at a D.C. inauguration bash raised a glass to Trump as he promised to bring the app back to life.
Olivia Reingold
Facebook’s Fact-Checkers Changed the Way I See Tech—and Speech—Forever
I thought I was sharing an important story on Covid’s origins. How naive I was.
Margi Conklin
The Debanking of America
What do Muslims, January 6 rioters, and Melania Trump all have in common? They were kicked off the financial grid.
Rupa Subramanya
Matt Taibbi: How to Fight Back Against the Censors
To small thinkers, free speech is a wilderness of potential threats. Thankfully, America wasn’t founded by small thinkers.
Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi on the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex
Bari Weiss
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