US President Donald Trump likes to say he's the protector of free speech. Yet, his administration has already threatened Democratic Congress members with investigation for criticising conservatives while withdrawing federal grants that include language it opposes. This as it sanctioned law firms that represent Trump's political opponents and arrested the Palestinian organiser of student protests that Trump criticised as "anti-Semitic, anti-American". The US president is stripping back the government-funded news organisation Voice of America as he accuses it of being "anti-Trump" and "radical". So will free speech survive in America? And are we merely witnessing the opening salvos of a war on so-called wokeism?
Jérôme VIALA-GAUDEFROY Lecturer on American Civilization, Author of "Les mots de Trump" Marcelle LALIBERTÉ Chief Diversity Officer at HEC Jodie GINSBERG Chief Executive Officer of the Committee to Protect Journalists Gérald OLIVIER Franco-American journalist; Research fellow at IPSE
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