

Jacob Mchangama
Free speech scholar and founder/executive director of The Future of Free Speech, and a research professor at Vanderbilt University, author of The Future of Free Speech.
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May 11, 2026 • 1h 19min
The New War on Free Speech: Why Power Turns Everyone Into a Censor
Jacob Mchangama, a free speech scholar and founder of The Future of Free Speech, discusses why speech protections are eroding worldwide. He covers social media’s role, how power tempts censorship, legal limits like incitement, platform moderation and Section 230, hate-speech laws, regulating minors online, and the promise and peril of AI. Short, urgent, and wide-ranging.


