Welcome to Washington’s new normal. President Trump promised shock and awe when he was elected, and his Inauguration Day at times felt like an effort to overwhelm his critics, his opponents and ...

JD Vance's sudden turn of the head told it all as an Episcopalian Bishop sermonized about having mercy on gay and transgender children while the nation's leaders listened. The new vice president ...

“Yeah, my dad went viral for these cutaway shots during yesterday’s broadcast. The internet’s obsessed with this little smile and goofy expression.” The next four years will change America forever.

But a window has been opened for acknowledging that, as a matter of law, protecting human expression is qualitatively different from enabling algorithmic manipulation of human attention.

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THE MEMO HAS CLEARLY GONE OUT: The phrase the incoming Trump administration is using to describe its opening days is “shock and awe.” Tom Homan, the incoming designated border czar, when asked during ...

Canadian groups who study and advocate for free expression have mixed feelings on Meta's changes to what is automatically considered "hateful" conduct on social media platforms like Facebook and ...