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· 2w ago

For years, Signal has required a phone number to register for an account. That’s all changing. You can now pay a small fee for an account with no phone number. Read about it in our digital security newsletter, and subscribe. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/signal-introduces-registration-without-a-phone-number/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Signal introduces registration without a phone number

One of Signal’s most sought-after features is now available to Android beta users

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· 1w ago

Dozens of former federal prosecutors filed a brief in support of our lawsuit to stop Trump's corrupt scheme to charge for expedited access to headlines he generates when he announces everything from military strikes to media bans on Truth Social. https://fortune.com/2026/09/24/over-50-federal-prosecutors-trump-100000-month-insider-trading/

Fortune

‘It’s so corrosive to democracy': Over 50 federal prosecutors speak out against Trump's $100,000 a month 'insider trading' scheme | Fortune

"We're in an environment where we all want to be looking to the founders, right?"

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· 3w ago

It seems naive to call on this administration in particular to stand up for a Palestinian-American journalist detained by Israel. But they should. It’s their job, and we can’t normalize inaction, no matter who is in office. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinian-american-journalist-naqaa-hamed-arrested

dropsitenews.com

Palestinian-American Journalist Naqaa Hamed Detained by Israeli Forces After Settlers Targeted Her

The freelance journalist and Drop Site contributor was arrested by Israeli authorities as she returned from covering Israeli settler attacks in Masafer Yatta.

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· 1w ago

Journalists have been asking our digital security training team: What the heck are passkeys, and do you recommend them? This new way to securely log in without a password does have its complications. Read our digital security advice column to learn more. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/ask-a-security-trainer-whats-this-passkey-thing/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Ask a security trainer: What’s this ‘passkey’ thing?

There’s a good chance you’ve been getting offers to save a passkey recently. Let’s talk about what that is

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· 1w ago

Court orders are just paper unless they’re enforced. Enough is enough. Government officials who continue to deny journalists’ access to the White House in defiance of Judge Kelly’s order should be held in contempt. Our statement: https://freedom.press/issues/white-house-defies-judge-who-smacked-down-media-ban/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

White House defies judge who smacked down media ban

The government officials still enforcing the president’s unconstitutional ban should be held in contempt

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· 2mo ago

It's past time for everyone to get over their fear of fighting back against Trump administration censorship. Take these bozos to court. They lose regularly. https://apnews.com/article/usmediatimesair-force-one-42429e4d4da8accc42b6c3ddf3f4fed5?user_email=04f821d8ddc19142c23d4ec1dd3c4ee6ae44e7ed7909966f0fb3c602e872a8bd&utm_medium=APNews_Alerts&utm_source=Sailthru_AP&utm_campaign=NewsAlert_Jul23_2026_03:35PM&utm_term=AP%20News%20Alerts

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· 3w ago

25 years after 9/11, New York is opening 170,000 pages of records on what officials knew about the toxic air at Ground Zero. Now the federal government should open the remaining 9/11 records still hidden from the public. FPF’s Lauren Harper explains: https://www.ms.now/opinion/9-11-victims-declassifying-records-intelligence-threats

Opinion | The case for declassifying Sept. 11 records

MS NOW

Opinion | The case for declassifying Sept. 11 records

Lauren Harper: The 9/11 Commission’s most critical finding was that a “failure of imagination” blinded officials to the gravity of the threat. As long as the complete intelligence picture remains shrouded, our ability to protect against future threats is inhibited.

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· 2mo ago

DOGE ended its mission with no public accounting of its actions. For a project touted as radical accountability, the hypocrisy is staggering. We have zero clear answers on what it broke, what it changed, or what it saved. Read The Classifieds for more. https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/doge-is-formally-done-where-are-its-records/

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· 2mo ago

The Pentagon wants to block FOIA access to all “controlled unclassified information.” If successful, hundreds of millions of documents could be hidden from journalists and the public — potentially forever. Read more in our secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds. https://freedom.press/the-classifieds/pentagon-tries-to-hide-unclassified-records-from-foia/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Pentagon tries to hide unclassified records from FOIA

Plus: FPF launches the Penlight Prize

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· 2mo ago

The business of producing real news and protecting the First Amendment go hand in hand. And Paramount clearly has no interest in either. That’s why we just sued Paramount owner David Ellison over his corrupt deal with Trump to acquire CNN:

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· 3w ago

The Trump administration's attacks on press freedom have 'have certainly risen to the level where they’re kind of off the charts,' FPF's Trevor Timm told The New York Times Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/us/politics/trump-free-speech.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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· 3mo ago

Boosted by @perlman@indieweb.social

Under the First Amendment, possessing literature cannot be criminal. If prosecutors are correct that Daniel Sanchez moved zines because he feared they’d try to use them against his wife, that’s a commentary on their lawlessness, not his. Our statement: https://freedom.press/issues/texas-man-sentenced-to-30-years-for-transporting-pamphlets/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Texas man sentenced to 30 years for transporting pamphlets

Draconian sentence threatens journalists and news consumers

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· 2mo ago

Your phone won’t run an app that’s been tampered with, but your browser will run anything a server sends it. WEBCAT is a tamper-evident seal for web applications, developed by Freedom of the Press Foundation. Find out more: https://freedom.press/tech/news/webcat-a-tamper-evident-seal-for-the-open-web/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

WEBCAT: A tamper-evident seal for the open web

Security and privacy online are critical to protect users from eavesdroppers and attackers. The biggest success story of the last decade is HTTPS, the protocol that ensures the connection between a reader and a website is encrypted. We’ve written about this, advocated for news organizations to adopt it, and …

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· 2mo ago

The Trump admin's embarrassment that it reportedly charged taxpayers millions "to retrofit a flying bribe that still isn't secure enough for hostile times does not supersede the need for a free and independent press," FPF's Seth Stern told Newsweek. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-subpoenas-journalists-over-air-force-one-security-fears-leak-report-12184823

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· 2mo ago

While the Trump admin publishes Fauci’s unredacted diaries, it is simultaneously proposing a government-wide NDA "to muzzle federal workers from sharing the very kinds of information" Rand Paul released, FPF's Lauren Harper writes in MS NOW. https://www.ms.now/opinion/rand-paul-fauci-hearing-trump-government-records

Opinion | The Fauci hearing takeaway that the Trump administration doesn’t want you to notice

MS NOW

Opinion | The Fauci hearing takeaway that the Trump administration doesn’t want you to notice

Lauren Harper: The Trump administration is actively shredding its own paper trail, preventing future accountability.

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· 2mo ago

"When the government claims it needs to investigate journalists to protect national security, it really means its own reputational security," FPF's Seth Stern told The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/11/justice-department-subpoenas-new-york-times-air-force-one

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· 2mo ago

The Pentagon doesn’t want whistleblowers to share information with reporters about its failures. This has nothing to do with national security. It’s about shielding officials from embarrassment and accountability. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/pete-hegseth-doj-taskforce-press-leaks

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· 3mo ago

Big win for privacy. Major setback for mass surveillance. For journalists, their sources, and everyone else, this Supreme Court decision is a powerful protection for location data, and potentially for other sensitive information stored on their phones. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/victory-supreme-court-says-constitution-protects-peoples-location-data

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Victory! Supreme Court Says Constitution Protects People’s Location Data

You have an expectation of privacy in location data that reveals your movements in the physical world, and even short-term surveillance of these movements is a search subject to the Fourth Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today in Chatrie v. United States. The case involved geofence warrants...

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· 2mo ago

Tell the Senate to reject Jay Clayton for director of national intelligence. Clayton just subpoenaed several New York Times journalists over their reporting on the Air Force One plane Qatar gifted to President Trump. Someone who targets reporters shouldn’t be DNI. https://freedom.press/action/write-a-letter-opposing-jay-claytons-confirmation-as-director-of-national-intelligence/

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· 2mo ago

If Jay Clayton is "willing to sign off on a violation of DOJ's policies at Donald Trump's request, what will he do now that he's in charge of the intelligence community's incredibly powerful surveillance apparatus?" FPF's Trevor Timm told Reason. https://reason.com/2026/07/30/trumps-new-director-of-national-intelligence-is-a-menace-to-liberty/

Trump's new director of national intelligence is a menace to liberty

Reason Magazine

Trump's new director of national intelligence is a menace to liberty

As U.S. attorney, Jay Clayton subpoenaed journalists for reporting embarrassing information about the president's new plane.

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· 2mo ago

Another of the administration’s favorite tricks, intimidating journalists’ sources, stops newsgathering before it starts. But when a story slips through the cracks, bullying those who share it offers a censorship backup plan. https://freedom.press/issues/the-government-wants-to-scare-americans-out-of-sharing-the-news/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

The government wants to scare Americans out of sharing the news

The Department of Homeland Security has a new tactic to suppress reporting: silence people who repost information from news stories

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· 2mo ago

Jay Clayton signed off on several abusive subpoenas to New York Times reporters in violation of the DOJ's own policies — now he's confirmed as director of national intelligence. With people like him in office, we need a federal shield law for journalists more than ever: https://freedom.press/issues/now-confirmed-as-dni-jay-clayton-is-threat-to-press-freedom/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Now confirmed as DNI, Jay Clayton is threat to press freedom

If Clayton is willing to break DOJ policy at Donald Trump’s request and then lie about it, what will he do now that he’s in charge of an incredibly powerful surveillance apparatus?

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· 2mo ago

First, a NJ court unconstitutionally gagged New Brunswick Today from publishing a video of a school security incident. Now, it’s trying to restrain the entire press and dictate what journalists can write. This order is an unconstitutional mess that should be overturned. https://freedom.press/issues/nj-court-doubles-down-on-one-of-the-worst-censorship-orders-weve-seen/

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· 3mo ago

You don't have to censor a newsroom to censor the news. You just have to penalize those who share it. Protecting press freedom must mean protecting everyone who reads, circulates, and discusses reporting. https://freedom.press/issues/the-government-wants-to-scare-americans-out-of-sharing-the-news/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

The government wants to scare Americans out of sharing the news

The Department of Homeland Security has a new tactic to suppress reporting: silence people who repost information from news stories

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· 4mo ago

Police want to decide which journalists can cover the Delaney Hall protests in Newark, New Jersey. But if an officer can point at someone and declare they are not press, the First Amendment ceases to have meaning. Read more from FPF's Adam Rose: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/03/delaney-hall-new-jersey-protests-police

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· 2mo ago

Large language models used in chatbots and elsewhere are vulnerable to malicious prompts. New research shows they may also be easily “confused” into taking user input as their own ideas. That’s right, they can be “incepted.” Read our newsletter for more. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/the-s-in-llm-stands-for-security/

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· 3mo ago

Tell New Jersey officials to drop criminal charges against journalists covering protests at Delaney Hall immigration detention center: https://freedom.press/action/drop-criminal-charges-against-journalists-in-newark/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

📣 Take Action: Drop criminal charges against journalists in Newark

Make an impact with guided actions from Freedom of The Press Foundation.

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· 2mo ago

The economic terms of this merger make no sense for Paramount shareholders. If Paramount’s news networks are watered down to appease the administration, the public stop tuning in and will be less informed. Read about the lawsuit FPF attorneys filed: https://freedom.press/issues/shareholder-lawsuit-seeks-to-halt-paramount-merger-fight-corruption/

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· 2mo ago

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might have once gotten away with severing a raccoon from its manhood, but he should not get away with severing journalists from reliable sources. https://freedom.press/issues/censorship-of-medical-journals-infects-journalism-too/

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· 2mo ago

We’ve seen the Trump administration’s subpoenas and investigations halted and struck down any number of times because they’re using the criminal justice system to pursue political vendettas and critics rather than to investigate crime in good faith, and this case is an example of that. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-11/us-subpoenas-new-york-times-journalists-over-air-force-one-story

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· 2mo ago

📢 Are you a journalist who uses FOIA or other public records laws in your reporting? You could win $25K with our new journalism award, the Penlight Prize. Read more and apply today: https://freedom.press/issues/new-25k-penlight-journalism-award-honors-paywall-free-foia-reporting/

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· 3mo ago

🔔 When Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, the DOJ blew its deadline to release the files. Join our webinar to learn about Katie Phang's lawsuit to force compliance, featuring Brendan Ballou and Lauren Harper. 🗓️ July 1, 3 p.m. ET RSVP: https://freedom.press/epstein-files

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· 2mo ago

Are you a journalist who uses the Freedom of Information Act in your reporting? Well, you can now win $25,000. FPF is proud to announce the launch of the Penlight Prize for excellence in paywall-free public records reporting. Watch our video to learn more, and apply today at https://penlightprize.org/ Deadline: Sept. 1

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· 3mo ago

Replying to

The New York Times Co. v. United States (1971) got its start from Daniel Ellsberg's (1931-2023) courageous decision that the public had a right to know about the government's lies about the Vietnam War. https://freedom.press/about/announcements/daniel-ellsberg-an-american-hero-for-the-ages-1931-2023/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Daniel Ellsberg, an American hero for the ages (1931-2023)

We are heartbroken to learn that our dear friend Daniel Ellsberg, world-renowned whistleblower and Freedom of the Press Foundation co-founder, has passed away at the age of 92.

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· 3mo ago

FCC censorship czar Brendan Carr wants control over daytime talk shows. Use our action center to file a public comment with the FCC telling him to follow the First Amendment and back off. https://freedom.press/fcc

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· 2mo ago

Federal prosecutors are going after an Atlanta-based protester, allegedly in connection with the use of a "duress" passcode that wiped his phone during a border search. Read our digital security newsletter to learn about border security risks, and what you can do about them. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/protester-targeted-by-doj-over-phone-wiping-duress-passcode/

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· 3mo ago

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In a 6-3 decision, SCOTUS rejected a prior restraint prohibiting the New York Times and the Washington Post from publishing excerpts of the Pentagon Papers, holding that the government had not met the exceptionally high bar needed to justify a prior restraint. https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/403/713/

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· 4mo ago

The DOJ has subpoenaed journalists and their email and phone providers as part of a leaks investigation.

If you're a journalist, don't wait to beef up your digital defenses. It could mean the difference between your confidential source material ending up in the government's hands or not.

Explore our resources, trainings, and other services and take steps protect your work and sources TODAY:

https://freedom.press/digisec/

Freedom of the Press Foundation

Digital Security Education

Defending press freedom for the next generation

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· 3mo ago

FCC censorship czar Brendan Carr wants control over daytime talk shows. Today's your last chance to use our action center to file a public comment with the FCC telling him to follow the First Amendment and back off. https://freedom.press/action/tell-the-fcc-to-stop-retaliating-against-abc/

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· 2mo ago

So, you’re about to publish something that you just know is going to be met with harassment, or worse. There’s a lot you can do to make an attacker’s job harder, and it all starts with understanding your online footprint. Read our advice column to learn more. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/ask-a-security-trainer-expecting-doxxing/

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· 2mo ago

Appeasing Trump is the Ellisons’ short term goal for Paramount-Warner. But once Trump’s gone, their control over culture can benefit their own business interests, like surveillance, "while leaving Paramount shareholders holding the bag," FPF's Seth Stern wrote in MS NOW. https://www.ms.now/opinion/david-ellison-warner-bros-acquisition-bid

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· 2mo ago

If the the Department of Government Efficiency is “stonewalling the inspector general’s office, it’s an extremely safe bet that they’re absolutely ignoring FOIA officers who are asking for information,” FPF's Lauren Harper told The 74. https://www.the74million.org/article/trumps-education-department-leaves-mountain-of-public-records-requests-unaddressed/

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· 3mo ago

Politicians shouldn’t be able to use the legal system to bully the press. We need strong anti-SLAPP laws in every state and at the federal level to help put a stop to this nonsense. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/14/business/media/kash-patel-defamation-lawsuits.html

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· 3mo ago

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From Justice Hugo Black's majority opinion in the case: "In the First Amendment, the Founding Fathers gave the free press the protection it must have to fulfill its essential role in our democracy. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors." https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/new-york-times-co-v-united-states/

New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

The Free Speech Center

New York Times Co. v. United States (1971)

New York Times Co. v. United States (1971): The Supreme Court upheld the right of the press to publish the Pentagon Papers without government restraint.

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· 2mo ago

What a great platform to publicly deny promising Trump a CNN overhaul or $20 million in free advertising in exchange for merger approvals. Or to speak out against his bullying of journalists you employ or want to employ. Weird that you didn’t do any of that. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/opinion/david-ellison-paramount-warner-deal.html

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· 2mo ago

📩 Read in our latest newsletter:

New prize rewards making public records truly public
DOJ’s losing streak continues in New York Times subpoena case
MSG revives legal theory that once haunted "60 Minutes"
Plus, what we're reading...

https://freedom.press/issues/new-prize-rewards-making-public-records-truly-public/

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· 1mo ago

🚨 DEADLINE EXTENDED! Are you a journalist who uses FOIA or other public records laws in your reporting? You could win $25,000 with our new journalism award, the Penlight Prize. Deadline extended to September 15. Apply at: https://penlightprize.org/

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· 1w ago

A toothless consent decree may enable the Ellisons' President Trump-facilitated takeover of Warner Bros. "If it goes through, it will give them unprecedented control over what the next generation watches and reads," FPF's Seth Stern writes in @theintercept@journa.host. https://theintercept.com/2026/09/23/paramount-warner-bros-merger-ellisons-surveillance/

The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger

The Intercept

The Ellisons Could Make a Killing in Big Surveillance With the Paramount Merger

With the Paramount–Warner Bros. merger set to proceed, the Ellisons can stoke Americans’ fears — and sell the government its solution.

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· 2mo ago

The House investigation of BreakThrough News is the latest example of financial probes being used as "pretexts to stifle journalism and dissent," FPF's Seth Stern writes in The Intercept. Read more: https://theintercept.com/2026/07/27/breakthrough-news-journalists-subpoena/

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