To publish or not to publish? The media’s free-speech dilemmas in a world of division, violence and extremism
Denis Muller, in this crossposting from The Conversation, explores the complex issues of journalism, free speech, and censorship, anchored to the examples of recent events and Trump.
Terrorism, political extremism, Donald Trump, social media and the phenomenon of “cancel culture” are confronting journalists with a range of agonising free-speech dilemmas to which there are no easy answers.
Do they allow a president of the United States to use their platforms to falsely and provocatively claim the election he has just lost was stolen from him?
How do they cover the activities and rhetoric of political extremists without giving oxygen to race hate and civil insurrection?
