In 1892, a mob destroyed a Memphis newspaper after it published an anti lynching editorial. Through death threats and violence, they tried to erase journalist Ida B. Wells’s message. Instead, they made her fight impossible to ignore.
Best-selling author Jeffrey Rosen, one of America’s foremost historians and legal analysts, has joined FIRE as a senior fellow and launched a new podcast.
When the government treats “find the leak” as a license to raid reporters, the law meant to protect watchdogs starts looking more like a speed bump than a guardrail.
Kash Patel’s $250M lawsuit raises First Amendment concerns as a potential SLAPP, threatening robust, open debate on government accountability and press freedom.
