Over the past year, curbing online free speech on American tech platforms has emerged as a major priority for governments around the world. The European Union (EU), the United Kingdom (UK), Brazil, Canada, Australia, Spain, Germany — all are simultaneously escalating pressure against American social media companies to censor speech and change their algorithms, in…
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In a report released on February 3, 2026, the House Judiciary Committee has exposed the European Union’s decade-long campaign to impose its censorship regime on the global internet, directly infringing on the free speech rights of Americans. Drawing from thousands of internal documents subpoenaed from Big Tech giants like TikTok, Meta, Google, and X, the…
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The European Union has opened yet another investigation into X, this time targeting the platform’s Grok artificial intelligence system—marking the latest escalation in what is increasingly shaping up to be a coordinated, multinational pressure campaign against Elon Musk’s social media company. EU regulators are demanding information about how Grok is trained, how it generates responses,…
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SUMMARY Dean Jackson worked as a program officer at the National Endowment for Democracy from 2013 to 2021, a period encompassing Donald Trump’s first term in office. While at NED, Jackson focused on the “challenges that disinformation, media manipulation, and emerging technologies pose to democratic norms and institutions worldwide.” Jackson has admitted on the record…
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SUMMARY 81 Republican members of the House of Representatives voted with 210 Democrats to re-fund the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) NED is a nonprofit created by Congress in the 1980s, which has been a major source of U.S. soft power abroad. Originally tasked with supporting anti-Soviet movements during the Cold War, NED repurposed itself…
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The government of the UK is rallying international support to ban X over a controversy over an ongoing controversy regarding the use of AI to replace women’s clothing with bikinis. “If X cannot control Grok, we will,” UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told MPs this week, saying the platform may “lose the right to self…
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SUMMARY Nina Jankowicz was executive director of the short-lived DHS Disinformation Governance Board under the Biden administration, which sought to coordinate “counter-disinformation” efforts across the US federal government. Over the past two years, Jankowicz has testified before the parliaments of the EU, Canada, and most recently the UK, urging foreign lawmakers to resist the Trump…
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Measures to bar children under the age of 16 from accessing social media platforms came into effect at the end of the year in Australia, a move framed by officials as a child-safety measure but one that has quickly sparked broader concerns about speech, access to information, and democratic participation. The measures require tech companies…
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In 2025, free speech advocates can point to a genuine turning point—one that would have been difficult to imagine just three years earlier. A series of developments marked meaningful resistance to government censorship, coordinated content moderation, and foreign pressure on American speech norms. This moment represents a sharp break from the early 2020s, when virtually…
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SUMMARY Media and digital literacy lessons in schools emerged as one of the top priorities of the censorship industry under the previous administration, promoted by the US federal government as a means to combat disinformation both domestically and around the world. A labyrinth of nonprofits and private ed-tech companies continue to push media and digital…
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