European Center for Populism Studies: Liberal Institutions Are Becoming Increasingly Illiberal in Their Attempts to Fight Populism

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in AI, Digital Regulation, Disinformation, Global Free Speech, Multimedia, Online Content Moderation

Interview by Selcuk Gultasli In an in-depth interview with the European Center for Populism Studies (ECPS), Professor Jacob Mchangama warns that liberal institutions are becoming “increasingly illiberal” in their efforts to combat populism and disinformation. Examining electoral censorship in Brazil, Germany’s militant democracy, and the EU’s Digital Services Act, he argues that restrictive speech policies […]

Business Untitled: Who Controls Free Speech in the AI Era?

Posted on by Ashkhen Kazaryan in AI, Digital Regulation, Featured Multimedia, Global Free Speech, Multimedia, Online Content Moderation

 In this episode of Business Untitled, the crew is joined by Ashkhen Kazaryan, a First Amendment lawyer and former Meta content regulation lead, for a wide-ranging conversation about AI, free speech, social media, Section 230, TikTok, copyright, data privacy, deepfakes, and who should be responsible when platforms or AI systems shape what people see […]

The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie: The Global War on Free Speech

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff in Digital Regulation, Disinformation, Featured Multimedia, First Amendment, Free Speech History, Global Free Speech, Hate Speech, Multimedia, Online Content Moderation

Jacob Mchangama and Jeff Kosseff are co-authors of The Future of Free Speech, a new book examining what they describe as a global “free speech recession.” In this episode, Mchangama and Kosseff talk with Nick Gillespie about why democracies are increasingly embracing speech restrictions once associated with authoritarian regimes, how fears about misinformation and child […]

Skeptic: The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into A Censor

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Digital Regulation, First Amendment, Free Speech History, Global Free Speech, Hate Speech, Multimedia

About this episode: Free speech was supposed to be the great settled achievement of liberal democracy. Then came social media, cancel culture, campus speech battles, hate-speech laws, authoritarian tech control, and a new era of governments pressuring platforms from every direction. Michael Shermer speaks with free speech scholar Jacob Mchangama about why speech protections are […]

The Good Fight: Jacob Mchangama on the Global Free Speech Recession

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Culture, Digital Regulation, Disinformation, First Amendment, Free Speech History, Global Free Speech, Hate Speech, Multimedia

Jacob Mchangama on the Global Free Speech Recession by Yascha Mounk Yascha Mounk and Jacob Mchangama discuss how democracies and dictatorships alike have turned against online speech freedom. Read on Substack Jacob Mchangama is the Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech and a research professor at Vanderbilt University, as well as a Senior […]

Keen on America: Can I Say It?

Posted on by Jacob Mchangama in Digital Regulation, First Amendment, Free Speech History, Global Free Speech, Multimedia, Online Content Moderation

“Once you start clamping down on speech, it will have serious collateral damage. And we’re starting to see that now.” — Jacob Mchangama The Jyllands-Posten editor who published those Mohammed cartoons in 2005 spent a decade under round-the-clock protection from Danish intelligence services. He’d commissioned artists to say it with their pens, but the mob […]

So To Speak: Anonymity from The Founding to The Digital Age

Posted on by Jeff Kosseff in Digital Regulation, Disinformation, First Amendment, Free Speech History, Multimedia, Online Content Moderation

In the years leading up to the American Revolution, newspapers and pamphlets overflowed with essays signed “Publius,” “Brutus,” and “A Farmer.” Those arguments helped shape a nation, but the authors’ real names were nowhere to be found. Americans have long relied on anonymous speech to challenge the powerful, protect dissenters, and keep the focus on […]