Free speech in Trump's America: Drawing up the battlelines

Rebecca GNIGNATI | Elisa AMIRI | Annette YOUNG | Alessandro XENOS | Jérôme VIALA-GAUDEFROY | Marcelle LALIBERTÉ | Jodie GINSBERG | Gérald OLIVIER

Edité par France 24 - 2025

Produced by Rebecca Gnignati, Elisa Amiri, Ilayda Habip, Juliette Laffont.

Note
  • 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?

Langue
anglais
Date de publication
17/03/2025
Collection
The Debate
Contributeurs
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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