Jacob Mchangama, Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech, delivered the keynote address at the Bavarian American Academy’s annual conference in Munich. While there, he sat down with Claudia Koestler, a senior editor at Germany’s largest paper of record, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, on the “Over Here, Over There” podcast to discuss:

  • Why free speech in Germany is fundamentally different from the US
  • How the Trump administration is challenging democratic norms
  • The “global free speech recession” — which countries are getting it right and which are not
  • Social media, algorithms, and disinformation — are platforms really radicalizing users?
  • Hate speech laws vs. free expression: where should the line be drawn?
  • What democracies must do to protect themselves — without becoming what they fear
  • AI, information access, and why you must never outsource your mind
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Jacob Mchangama is the Founder and Executive Director of The Future of Free Speech. He is also a research professor at Vanderbilt University and a Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE).