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Freedom of the Press

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Defending press freedom for the next generation

This is how newspapers should react when the government asks them to carry its water.

The ICE agents disappearing your neighbors would like a little privacy, please

After taking four people into custody at SF’s immigration court, ICE wanted The Standard to conceal agents’ faces.

🔔 Join us for a conversation about the Trump administration's attacks on broadcast licensees and nonprofits, featuring FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez, Elias Law Group political law Chair Ezra Reese, and FPF's Caitlin Vogus. 🗓️ June 9, 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT RSVP: freedom.press/hijacking-public-interest

Voice of America chronicled abuses against journalists. Then Trump signed an executive order gutting the news service. To learn about what’s at stake for press freedom and the VOA, which could go offline, we spoke to former VOA reporter Liam Scott and Archive Team Co-founder Jason Scott.

Freedom of the Press

Silencing Voice of America has global consequences

At the international news service, Liam Scott chronicled abuses against journalists at home and abroad. Then the experiences of those he wrote abou...

Signal is making it harder for your private messages to get pulled into Microsoft's new Recall AI feature, which records Windows users' activities and could be a gold mine to attackers. Learn more in our digital security newsletter (and subscribe):

Freedom of the Press

Signal blocks Microsoft Recall from recalling

Signal is making it harder for your private messages to get pulled into Microsoft’s new Recall AI feature

KOSA's impact "could be devastating not only to kids’ access to factual, accurate information but also on news outlets that depend on online audiences to survive," Caitlin Vogus writes in The Boston Globe. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/opinion/kids-online-safety-act-speech-police/

Virtually every time the government has cracked down on leaks claiming some kind of threat to the homeland, the real threat has been to its own reputation. But this time we know the truth almost immediately, thanks to leaks.

Freedom of the Press

Recent leaks reinforce why journalist-source confidentiality needs protecting

Virtually every time the government has cracked down on leaks claiming some kind of threat to the homeland, the real threat has been to its own rep...

We are urging leaders of civic and other major institutions to defend free speech amid the Trump administration's "multi-front assault on First Amendment freedoms." Read the rest of the open letter we signed alongside six other organizations:

Knight First Amendment Institute

An Open Letter to Leaders of American Institutions

Whether people can be jailed and deported for writing op-eds in the United States is not a "thorny legal issue," CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/us/judge-rules-to-release-badar-khan-suri

KOSA won’t keep kids safe. But it will keep kids from accessing information online and censor the internet for everyone.

Freedom of the Press

The Kids Online Safety Act will censor student journalists

Celebrate Student Press Freedom Day by telling Congress not to pass this self-defeating bill