Freedom Forum Institute > State of the First Amendment
Knowledge of the First Amendment has increased, yet many misconceptions remain.
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While everybody loves the First Amendment in theory, nobody’s all that fond of it in practice.
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Support from the Charles Koch Foundation enables national K-12 NewseumED, free speech programming.
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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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83 percent of respondents agreed that social media companies should remove false information.
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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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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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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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Survey results show that Americans are supportive of the First Amendment in general–but critical of specific applications.
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While there’s been a decline in the number of Americans who think the news media is biased, the reason behind it remains unclear.