State of the First Amendment
2019 State of the First Amendment Survey Finds Broader Awareness of First Amendment Freedoms, But 29% Think It Goes Too Far
Knowledge of the First Amendment has increased, yet many misconceptions remain.
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Free Speech Makes Hypocrites of Us All
While everybody loves the First Amendment in theory, nobody’s all that fond of it in practice.
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The Freedom Forum Institute Launches New National Education Initiative on Free Speech and Civil Discourse
Support from the Charles Koch Foundation enables national K-12 NewseumED, free speech programming.
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We Hate “False News” Even More Than We Hate “Hate” On Social Media
The 2018 State of the First Amendment survey found that the more we know about our First Amendment freedoms, the less likely we are to agree with placing limits on those freedoms.
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2018 State of the First Amendment Survey Reveals Americans Consider Fake News More Objectionable Than Hate Speech On Social Media
83 percent of respondents agreed that social media companies should remove false information.
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Survey Shows that Americans are Becoming Savvier News Consumers
About 30% of Americans engage with the news every day of the week, and almost three out of four of all Americans do something to verify the news they receive, according to a new survey by the First Amendment Center of the Newseum Institute.
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Survey: More Americans see less media bias — but why?
Our annual survey found a significant rise in the number of Americans who believe the media tries to report without bias. What’s behind this sudden surge in trust?
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Celebrate America’s hands-on lessons in freedom
Collectively we may not know much about the First Amendment’s five freedoms, but we sure know how to use them.
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Still going strong after 225 years: Our love-hate relationship with the First Amendment
Survey results show that Americans are supportive of the First Amendment in general–but critical of specific applications.
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No ‘backflips’ in the newsrooms quite yet
While there’s been a decline in the number of Americans who think the news media is biased, the reason behind it remains unclear.