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Facebook began testing the idea in April and expanded the scope of application in August after noticing a positive effect. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Mark Zuckerberg Warns China and Tik Tok Are ‘Major Threats’ to Future Internet

Zuckerberg said Facebook couldn't operate in China because of ideological differences. But that didn't stop Facebook from plowing profits from China behind the scenes.
By Sissi Cao
President Donald Trump.

PEN America Sues Trump Just as He Renews Attacks on the Media

PEN's charge that Trump 'constrains' free speech coincides with the president downplaying Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
By John Bonazzo
President Donald Trump.

Democracy in Danger: Experts Warn Trump Poses ‘Most Serious Crisis in Decades’

Is Trump subverting American democracy into an authoritarian regime?
By Davis Richardson
Police barricades are stacked up in front of the White House fence after protestors removed them.

The Real Threat to Free Speech Isn’t Whiny College Kids—It’s Government

By Dan King
Judge Andrew Napolitano speaking at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

Napolitano’s Fox News Wiretapping Comment is Freedom of Speech

By Donald Scarinci
A member of the Fraternal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan participates in the 11th Annual Nathan Bedford Forrest Birthday march Pulaski, Tennessee.

The KKK Canary: How We’re Losing Our Freedom of Speech

By Selwyn Duke
Anthony Romero.

This Man Will Likely Sue Donald Trump the Most in the Next Four Years

By David Wallis
MICA exhibition.

Art’s Not Always Safe: The Fate of Arts Education in the Age of the Microaggression

By Daniel Grant
NEW YORK, NY - OCTOBER 26: Employees of the online review site Yelp watch as New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaks at the new East Coast headquarters of the tech company on October 26, 2011 in New York City. The Bloomberg administration has been heralding and working to facilitate the tech sector in New York City in hopes of making New York City a rival to Silicon Valley for start-up companies.

Is Yelp’s Cry for Help Worth the Hassle?

By Robert Garson
A person reads on November 1, 2011 in Paris an issue of Satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo to be published on November 2, 2011, whose cover features prophet Mohammed. "In order fittingly to celebrate the Islamist Ennahda's win in Tunisia and the NTC (National Transitional Council) president's promise that sharia would be the main source of law in Libya, Charlie Hebdo asked Mohammed to be guest editor," said a statement. AFP PHOTO MARTIN BUREAU (Photo credit should read MARTIN BUREAU/AFP/Getty Images)

Ill-Informed, Incurious, Intemperate, Ignoble and Ultimately Illiberal

By Dale Peck
(Photo via instagram.com/vogueparis)

Vogue Paris Pays Tribute to Victims of Attack on Charlie Hebdo

By Molly Mulshine

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By Jay Stowe
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