Knight First Amendment Institute

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The Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University defends the freedoms of speech & the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, policy advocacy, and public education.

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FOIA is plagued by, in simple terms, bullshit, writes @kevinhbell.bsky.social.

Drawing on his experience as an agency FOIA processor and litigator, Bell traces its collapse to disinvestment, judicial backsliding, and public complacency, and calls for new congressional committees to revive it.

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This September’s Forever War symposium examined how post-9/11 surveillance has evolved. #TBT to 2019, when Edward Snowden explained how it took hold: technology made collecting everyone's communications cheaper than targeting suspects.

Watch the full interview: youtu.be/OSOlbUdMP-g

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A 1969 Supreme Court ruling still gives the FCC power over what airs on broadcast TV and radio.

Lisa Zycherman of @rcfp.org says it's time to overturn Red Lion, a precedent born of a White House-backed campaign to harass stations, and a tool any president can use. 👇

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“When you get tortured, you become another person.”

Mohamedou Ould Slahi spent 14 years detained at Guantánamo Bay without ever being charged with a crime. At “The Forever War and the First Amendment,” he reflected on the impact of torture.

Watch the full interview: youtu.be/XmEgCwsct_U

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Mora, who opposed the cruel interrogation of detainees as Navy General Counsel after 9/11, also warned that the rule of law has been damaged in U.S. military operations, abroad and here at home. From "The Forever War and the First Amendment.”

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Under Bush, Pentagon lawyers who opposed his policies "did not face reprisals." Today, says former Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora, "the function of the lawyer in the Pentagon has been severely constrained and ridiculed, in part, by Secretary Hegseth." 🧵

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FOIA backlogs keep growing, and government transparency is paying the price. Fixing it means more funding, a closer look at agencies' internal operations, and rethinking how they use technology, writes Michele Kimball for our Reconstructing Free Expression project.

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“There is a duty that I’m after, and it’s in the principle of telling the truth.”

At “The Forever War and the First Amendment,” @mohamhawish.bsky.social spoke about his time reporting in Gaza and how, for him, journalism is beyond a job. It’s a “responsibility.”

Full panel: youtu.be/JuEWOn43gvM

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