Foundation for Freedom Online

SUMMARY Newly released messages show Anthony Fauci, Vivek Murthy and Rochelle Walensky privately discussing concerns and uncertainties surrounding COVID vaccination during pregnancy in January 2021. At almost the same time, senior Biden White House offici

SUMMARY British campaign group 5Rights has become one of the leading organizations promoting UK-style online child-safety regulation in the United States. The organization was founded by Baroness Beeban Kidron, a Crossbench peer who helped create Britain'

SUMMARY The Digital Age Assurance Act of 2026 (S. 5090), introduced July 22 by Sens. Andy Kim, Cynthia Lummis, Adam Schiff and John Barrasso, would move age checks from individual websites down to the operating system layer. The bill contains some data-mi

Publicis Groupe, known for its history of ad blacklisting, has signed a deal to acquire LiveRamp, a major adtech company.

Censorship disputes often arrive as questions of liability allocation: when material crosses a boundary it was not supposed to cross, which party in the chain of transmission pays for it. Answer "the publisher" and you get a system that polices publishers

SUMMARY Clean Up the Internet was founded to combat anonymous trolling, misinformation and what it called the deterioration of online discourse. The group was launched by an experienced regulatory lawyer, supported by a foundation he helped govern, and ad

SUMMARY Following the second election of Donald Trump, funding for "counter-disinformation" programs was cut at the federal level. The formerly federally-funded censorship professionals have turned to foreign governments, including the UK, to put pressure

The ongoing attempts by UK online regulator Ofcom, using its new powers under the Online Safety Act, to enforce a fine against the American platform 4chan has taken a new turn. This week, Ofcom told the British newspaper The Independent how it plans to re

SUMMARY USAID-funded media nonprofit Internews advocated using advertiser exclusion lists to redirect advertising revenue away from publishers accused of spreading "disinformation." Internews has long faced questions over its relationship with the U.S. go

For nearly a decade, the federal government has spent millions of taxpayer dollars supporting an ecosystem of universities, non-governmental organizations, contractors and research institutes dedicated to combating so-called "misinformation" and "disinfor