Freedom Forum

It's a kind of just a loose affiliation collection of a bunch of builders, um, all working on different projects.

And, you know, that basically, we got together and we were like, "We should try to build something together." And it was when the models first started to get good enough with AI that we were like, "Can we vibe an app, you know, without reading the code? Can we do it in a week before the Freedom Forum next week?" You know, this is last year.

Um, and so we put together the whole app in five days, and then Alex Gladstein presented it on the stage at, at Off last year.

And it immediately was DDoSed and, like, fell over.

That's just the incentive structure working out loud.

And there's the line from the Freedom Forum.

They compete with each other for views and money, which further incentivizes them to engage in highly confrontational behavior.

That's a press freedom organization saying the competition itself turns the dial.

Graham had to tell their six-year-old son, Cathal, that his mother was gone forever.

Veronica was killed just two days before she was scheduled to speak at a Freedom Forum conference in London.

The title of her planned talk was Dying to Tell the Story: Journalists at Risk.

The subject matter and timing were chilling.

LET'S DISCUSS ALL THIS WITH FORMER FEDERAL PROSECUTOR ELISE ADAMSON AND KEVIN GOLDBERG.

HE'S THE VICE PRESIDENT OF FREEDOM FORUM, WHERE HE WORKS TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT AND ITS PROTECTIONS FOR RELIGION, SPEECH, PRESS, ASSEMBLY, AND THE RIGHT TO PETITION.

ELISE, THE ATTORNEY FOR THE BANNED MEDIA OUTLETS, INCLUDING US AT CNN, NOTES THAT THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT'S NATIONAL SECURITY ARGUMENT CAME the initial ban.

How much do you think that will play a role in Judge Kelly's decision?

I think people need to understand the importance of the solidarity in this moment.

I think people do understand the importance of solidarity in this moment.

We at Freedom Forum talk to Americans all the time about these issues where they are and try to get their sense of things.

And one thing we do is actually we've surveyed the public.

Whether it survives or doesn't, I mean, depends on the judge you get, to be honest with you.

In the meantime, Kevin Goldberg, vice president of the First Amendment advocacy group Freedom Forum, says the order is a loss for everyone.

And we all lose some measure of our ability in the end as, as individuals to participate in our own governance, to be informed enough to do that.

In President Trump's first term, the administration lost a legal battle after revoking the press pass for then CNN reporter Jim Acosta.

PEN America, a nonprofit organization, mixes literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States.

First Amendment Center, a nonprofit organization that wants to protect to First Amendment through information and education, is an operating program of the Freedom Forum.

national correlation against censorship, works to protect free expression and access to information by providing educational resources, documenting and reporting on current censorship issues, and working to influence judicial opinions about free expression and access to information by submitting amnesty briefs.

Office for Intellectual Freedom, which we talked about before, an international literacy association, membership organization, Advocators for Children's Rights to Read, and to Excellent Literacy Instruction.