CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the move is an attempt to restore free expression on Meta’s platforms. The pivot comes as Zuckerberg looks to build ties with the incoming Trump administration. Photo: Brendan ...

What are the politics of free speech? A new history explores the political limits as well as possibilities of freedom of speech. Angelo Herndon, whose conviction for a crime related to free speech was ...

And how we get it back. Jeff Bezos, Alphabet’s CEO Sundar Pichai, and Elon Musk attend the inauguration ceremony of President-elect Donald Trump in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January ...

Free speech is a bulwark of open societies, because it allows ideas and information to be shared, authority to be questioned, and abuses of power exposed. In "On Liberty" (1859), John Stuart Mill gave ...

The United States is in a speech war. Normally, human beings fight over money or land or love, but that is not what is happening today. Today, people are fighting over words. People’s lives are being ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. “If we don’t have FREE SPEECH, then we just don’t have a FREE COUNTRY,” ...

American officials are waging a multifront attack on Europe’s approach to free speech. This month, a congressional delegation traveled to Dublin, Brussels, and London to probe and decry European ...

I created a Facebook account recently. No one was more surprised than myself. From my book, "The Indispensable Right," to my past columns, I have been one of the most vocal critics of Facebook and ...

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the free speech debate is back in the national spotlight as Republicans and Democrats trade insults. It seems that everybody is missing that there has been ...

When America’s vice-president accuses Europe of failing to protect free speech, the obvious retort is that he is a hypocrite. The White House in which J.D. Vance serves is an energetic foe of speech ...