Thanks to those who joined our conversation about Section 702 of FISA, and a special thanks to our panelists: @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas. Did you miss it? Watch it here:

If the Trump administration succeeds in chipping away at constitutional protections for basic journalistic practices, "reporters who wish to do anything more than regime stenography may risk imprisonment." Read more from FPF's Seth Stern in @theintercept.com:

Section 702 lets the government spy on Americans’ communications without a warrant. Now Congress is debating renewing it for several years. We must not let that happen without major reforms. Watch @trevortimm.bsky.social explain and learn how you can help: freedom.press/reform-section-702

🔴 LIVE NOW: Join our conversation about Section 702 of FISA and surveillance and the press, featuring @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, John Dickas, and @trevortimm.bsky.social. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMP8...

🔴 LIVE NOW: Join our conversation about Section 702 of FISA and surveillance and the press, featuring @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, John Dickas, and @trevortimm.bsky.social. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMP8...

🔔 Section 702 of FISA, which enables spying on Americans while harming press freedom and source protection, is up for renewal in Congress. Join our conversation today with @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas for more. 🕜 1:30 p.m. ET RSVP: freedom.press/section-702

If the Trump administration succeeds in chipping away at constitutional protections for basic journalistic practices, "reporters who wish to do anything more than regime stenography may risk imprisonment." Read more from FPF's Seth Stern in @theintercept.com:

🔔 Section 702 of FISA, which enables spying on Americans while harming press freedom and source protection, is up for renewal in Congress. Join our conversation today with @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas for more. 🕜 1:30 p.m. ET RSVP: freedom.press/section-702

"Steal This Story, Please!" opens April 10 at @ifccenter.bsky.social with opening remarks from FPF's Trevor Timm. The award-winning film about @democracynow.org host Amy Goodman is directed by Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin. 🎟️ Get tickets: tickets.ifccenter.com/websales/pag...

LIVE NOW: Join us for a conversation about the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on the First Amendment, featuring @freepress.bsky.social’s @attorneynora.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org’s @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, and @aclu.org’s Ben Wizner, moderated by FPF’s @laurenleharper.bsky.social.

LIVE NOW: Join us for a conversation about the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on the First Amendment, featuring @freepress.bsky.social’s @attorneynora.bsky.social, @knightcolumbia.org’s @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, and @aclu.org’s Ben Wizner, moderated by FPF’s @laurenleharper.bsky.social.

🔔 At the top of the hour: Join EIPAD for a conversation about the Trump admin's escalating attacks on the First Amendment, featuring @attorneynora.bsky.social, @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, and Ben Wizner, moderated by @laurenleharper.bsky.social. RSVP: umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

I'll be discussing warrantless wiretapping tomorrow w/ @freedom.press. RSVP below!

"They have no interest in journalism," @karaswisher.bsky.social said, "I'm not working for you hacks." Paramount will tank CNN to appease Trump just like it did CBS. Its shareholders should be objecting loudly to further public humiliation and devaluation.

🔔 Section 702 of FISA, which enables spying on Americans while harming press freedom and source protection, is up for renewal in Congress. Join our conversation with @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas for more. 🗓️ March 26, 1:30 p.m. ET RSVP: freedom.press/section-702

"The press doesn’t work for the government and any policy that purports to require the press to help the government keep secrets from the American public is unconstitutional," @freedom.press's Seth Stern said. Read more from @thatchriswalker.bsky.social:

RSVP for our event tonight on free speech & the Trump admin. Experts from ACLU, Knight Institute, Free Press, Freedom of the Press Fdn. @laurenleharper.bsky.social @jameeljaffer.bsky.social @knightcolumbia.org @aclu.org @freepress.bsky.social @freedom.press umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Blaming the public for asking how their government works is a bad move. The DOJ’s tone-deaf take ignores the real problem: we have the most secretive government in a generation, and FOIA is the best tool we have to fix it.

FOIA offices are being decimated across federal agencies, leaving the government unable to fulfill public records requests. Don’t let this blatant attack on transparency fly under the radar. Tell your representatives to safeguard FOIA.

Trump wants YOU in a massive, secret government database, fully searchable by AI. So at @freedom.press, we are suing the administration for documents behind it. Watch our @trevortimm.bsky.social explain, and show your support: freedom.press/donate

Rising gov’t hostility towards speech & dissent is urgent. Media access to the Pentagon & White House, ICE violence towards & killing of protesters, Donald Trump’s encouragement for agencies & corporations to do his censorial bidding. Learn what we’re doing & tune in: www.youtube.com/live/H_RblV2...

📣 Journalism professors! Want to bring digital security into your classroom? FPF is offering a free virtual training program this summer to help you teach our J-school Digital Security Curriculum — no prior experience needed! Sign up by April 8, and check out this link for more info 👇

📣 Journalism professors! Want to bring digital security into your classroom? FPF is offering a free virtual training program this summer to help you teach our J-school Digital Security Curriculum — no prior experience needed! Sign up by April 8, and check out this link for more info 👉

🔔 Section 702 of FISA, which enables spying on Americans while harming press freedom and source protection, is up for renewal in Congress. Join our conversation with @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas for more. 🗓️ March 26, 1:30 p.m. ET RSVP: freedom.press/section-702

Trump wants YOU in a massive, secret government database, fully searchable by AI. So at @freedom.press, we are suing the administration for documents behind it. Watch our @trevortimm.bsky.social explain, and show your support: freedom.press/donate

Use our action center to tell Congress to drop the deportation case against Nashville journalist Estefany Rodríguez.

🔔 TODAY: Join EIPAD for a conversation about the Trump admin's escalating attacks on the First Amendment, featuring @attorneynora.bsky.social, @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, and Ben Wizner, moderated by @laurenleharper.bsky.social. 🕖 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT RSVP: umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Big new: A judge has ruled that ICE can’t ignore FOIA because of a lapse in funding and must produce records in response to a @freedom.press FOIA lawsuit. That’s great news, in no small part because the records will shed light on obfuscation of congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities.

The government says journalists and sources who are living in the United States illegally don’t have First Amendment rights. But the First Amendment was written to limit government power, not let officials decide whose voices are worth hearing.

The Pentagon's revised policy adds "mostly meaningless window dressing while retaining the core constitutional violation – subjecting journalists to punishment for doing their jobs," FPF's Seth Stern said. Read more from @jeremymbarr.bsky.social:

It’s unconstitutional for the government to arbitrarily bar employees from talking to the press, so it goes without saying that it’s unconstitutional to retaliate against outlets that report on those unconstitutional restrictions. The National Park Service and Interior officials should do better.

DHS says filming ICE is illegal and amounts to doxxing. They’re absolutely wrong. Recording law enforcement in public spaces is protected by the First Amendment — and courts have affirmed that right time and again. Watch @freedom.press's @trevortimm.bsky.social explain:

When ICE or other federal agencies ignore press rights, editors, unions, and lawyers must be willing to step up to support journalists, FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told @quincetessence.bsky.social. “If you’re prevented from telling the story, then you are the story,” he said.

The Pentagon's revised policy adds mostly meaningless window dressing while retaining the core constitutional violation — subjecting journalists to punishment for doing their jobs. It's not a good faith effort to comply with the judge's order. Read our statement: freedom.press/issues/meet-...

The Pentagon's revised policy adds mostly meaningless window dressing while retaining the core constitutional violation — subjecting journalists to punishment for doing their jobs. It is not a good faith effort to comply with the judge's order. Read our statement:

The government says journalists and sources who are living in the United States illegally don’t have First Amendment rights. But the First Amendment was written to limit government power, not let officials decide whose voices are worth hearing.

The Pentagon's revised policy adds mostly meaningless window dressing while retaining the core constitutional violation — subjecting journalists to punishment for doing their jobs. It is not a good faith effort to comply with the judge's order. Read our statement:

“I don't think the problem today is left versus right. It's truth versus lies. And we cannot give in to these lies.” Watch @jimacosta.bsky.social warn against Trump’s march toward a state-dominated media at a Friday hearing on the proposed WBD-Paramount deal, led by Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.

🔔 Section 702 of FISA, which enables spying on Americans while harming press freedom and source protection, is up for renewal in Congress. Join our conversation with @seanvitka.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, and John Dickas for more. 🗓️ March 26, 1:30 p.m. ET RSVP: freedom.press/section-702

The Espionage Act has been used for decades to target journalists and whistleblowers who expose wrongdoing. Use our action center tool to tell lawmakers to pass the Daniel Ellsberg Press Freedom and Whistleblower Protection Act and reform the archaic law.

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"Thanks to opposition from inside his own party, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., was forced to delay a vote on President Donald Trump’s request to extend a major domestic spying law — but Democrats could ride to the rescue." Matt Sledge writes in @theintercept.com:

🔔 Join EIPAD for a conversation about the Trump admin's escalating attacks on the First Amendment, featuring @attorneynora.bsky.social, @jameeljaffer.bsky.social, and Ben Wizner, moderated by @laurenleharper.bsky.social. 🗓️ March 25, 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT RSVP: umass-amherst.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

FCC Chair Brendan Carr is again abusing his power, this time to threaten outlets reporting on the war in Iran. Newsrooms and lawmakers must push back. The U.S. doesn’t have state-run media, even if Carr and Trump wish it did. FPF's Caitlin Vogus writes:

The government could build a centralized database of your most intimate details, fully searchable by AI. FPF is suing to see what’s happening to your data before it’s too late. Read the full update in our latest secrecy newsletter, The Classifieds.

It’s up to news networks to stand up to the bullshit threats from the FCC and its commissioner. Bring a lawsuit, it's an easy win. “The giant corporations should make it their business to defend the First Amendment, or stay the heck out of the news business altogether.”

The Supreme Court's refusal to intervene here is an absolute travesty for press freedom rights.

📚 “Transaction Denied,” a newly published book by our board President @reitman.bsky.social, includes her firsthand account of co-founding @freedom.press. Pick up a copy to learn how we got started ⬇️

The U.S. Virgin Islands always deserve transparency but especially when they're at the center of national news like the Epstein case. We spoke to journalist Shirley Smith about her efforts to fix the territory's archaic public records laws.

The Supreme Court's refusal to intervene here is an absolute travesty for press freedom rights.