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Jacob Mchangama

Jacob Mchangama is the executive director of The Future of Free Speech and a research professor at Vanderbilt University. He is also a senior fellow at FIRE and the author with Jeff Kosseff of The Future of Free Speech: Reversing the Global Decline of Democracy’s Most Essential Freedom(forthcoming April 2026).

The American People Fact-Checked Their Government

In Minneapolis, video evidence traveled faster than the official storyline, making it harder for powerful figures to rewrite reality without pushback.

January 30, 2026

Jacob Mchangama

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