{"id":225735,"date":"2025-05-01T14:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?post_type=newsletterglue&#038;p=225735"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:59:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:59:13","slug":"the-briefing-2025-05-01","status":"publish","type":"newsletterglue","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/newsletter\/the-briefing\/the-briefing-2025-05-01\/","title":{"rendered":"Americans say AI will have negative effect on news"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-b1baf52390344ef4 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p><strong>\u2600\ufe0f Happy Thursday!<\/strong>&nbsp;<em>The Briefing is your guide to the world of news and information<\/em>.<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/sign-up-for-the-briefing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/sign-up-for-the-briefing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Sign up here!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-130957623118dd32 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p><strong>In today<em>\u2019<\/em>s email:<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-d228947ab7856e53 wp-block-newsletterglue-list ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:15px;padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:40px;padding-right:20px;color:#2a2a2a\"><ul class=\"wp-block-newsletterglue-list\"><li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Featured story:<\/strong> Turkish court gives Swedish journalist suspended sentence for \u201cinsulting Erdo\u011fan\u201d<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>New from Pew Research Center<\/strong>: Americans largely foresee AI having negative effects on news and journalists<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>In other news:<\/strong> White House launches website to promote pro-Trump news stories<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Looking ahead:<\/strong> CPB sues Trump over firings<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Chart of the week:<\/strong> Views about the state of press freedom in 35 countries<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-8771bf11b927d783 wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"25\" style=\"height: 25px !important\" data-height=\"25px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-a575f83c021d8c65 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udd25&nbsp;<strong>Featured story<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-f1125545240e445b wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>Swedish journalist Joakim Medin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/apr\/30\/swedish-journalist-joakim-medin-sentenced-turkey-erdogan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received an 11-month suspended sentence in Turkey<\/a> for <strong>insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan.<\/strong> Medin, affiliated with the Swedish newspaper Dagens ETC, was arrested at Istanbul airport on March 27 after arriving to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/30\/turkey-says-swedish-journalist-detained-on-terror-charges-and-for-insulting-the-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cover mass protests in Turkey<\/a>. Though the court ordered the journalist\u2019s release after sentencing, he remains in prison awaiting trial for a second charge: belonging to a terror organization.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-b3ec965f60b00366 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>People in Turkey are <strong>split over whether the media are free to report the news in their country,<\/strong> according to a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2025\/04\/24\/free-expression-seen-as-important-globally-but-not-everyone-thinks-their-country-has-press-speech-and-internet-freedoms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pew Research Center study<\/a> on global views of press, speech and internet freedom. About half of Turks (49%) say media in the country are not free to report the news in their country, including a quarter who say the media are <em>not at all free<\/em>. Another 49% say the media are completely or somewhat free.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-5dbb5c7579949100 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>Those who support Erdo\u011fan\u2019s government are much more likely than those who don\u2019t to say the media in Turkey are completely free to report the news (40% vs. 7%).&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-55831856b0cb4177 wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"25\" style=\"height: 25px !important\" data-height=\"25px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-e1f34bde1114a118 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udea8 <strong>New from Pew Research Center<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-d7f93c3ddf10f6aa wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>Roughly half of U.S. adults say that AI will have a very (24%) or somewhat (26%) negative impact on the news people get in the U.S. over the next 20 years, while just 10% say the effect will be positive, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/04\/28\/americans-largely-foresee-ai-having-negative-effects-on-news-journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Center survey<\/a> conducted last year. Meanwhile, a majority (59%) say AI will lead to fewer jobs for journalists in the next two decades, compared with only 5% who say AI will produce more journalism jobs.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-025b26340b3cca1c wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/04\/28\/americans-largely-foresee-ai-having-negative-effects-on-news-journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">full analysis<\/a> also looks at concerns about inaccurate information from AI, and views about how AI does at writing a news story today compared with human professionals.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-ae402dece658bd69 wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"25\" style=\"height: 25px !important\" data-height=\"25px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-dfbf7e0a144c024d wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udccc&nbsp;<strong>In other news<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-b5d3243134e2b974 wp-block-newsletterglue-list ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:15px;padding-bottom:15px;padding-left:40px;padding-right:20px;color:#2a2a2a\"><ul class=\"wp-block-newsletterglue-list\"><li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>White House<\/strong> launches <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2025\/04\/30\/trump-white-house-drudge-style-website-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House Wire<\/a>, a website to promote <strong>pro-Trump news stories<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\">A look at the <strong>new media, Trump-aligned outlets <\/strong>in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/04\/22\/trump-white-house-briefing-correspondents-natalie-winters-00290063\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House briefing room<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Paramount <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/business\/media\/paramount-cbs-60-minutes-trump-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DU8.-uCs.ERZfzBBrU5h0&amp;smid=nytcore-android-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">looks toward possible settlement<\/a><strong> <\/strong>in <strong>Trump\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes\u201d lawsuit<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\">Judge orders <strong>Trump administration<\/strong> to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/radio-free-europe-5e0b2355ad9cee4ad09a3e03b53df8fa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">restore $12 million in funding<\/a> to<strong> Radio Free Europe<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Spotify<\/strong> has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/28\/business\/dealbook\/spotify-100-million-paid-creators-podcast-video.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">paid more than $100 million to podcasters<\/a> since January in an attempt to draw creators and audiences back from <strong>video podcasting<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>LA Times <\/strong>said to have<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/media\/los-angeles-times-50m-subscriber-advertiser-losses\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lost $50 million in 2024<\/a> amid declining subscribers, advertisers&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/media\/2025\/04\/28\/substack-hamish-mckenzie-washington\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><strong>Substack\u2019s<\/strong> aspirations<\/a> with co-founder <strong>Hamish McKenzie<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n<li class=\"ng-block\" style=\"padding-bottom:0px\"><strong>Romanians <\/strong>continue to turn to <strong>TikTok <\/strong>for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/europe\/romanian-voters-again-turn-tiktok-guidance-rerun-annulled-election-2025-05-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">guidance in rerun of presidential election<\/a>; original results were annulled over <strong>Russian interference<\/strong> on the app&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-ba8c2893e0c18d79 wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"20\" style=\"height: 20px !important\" data-height=\"20px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-f6c3424368fc0986 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udcc5&nbsp;<strong>Looking ahead<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-1091e9e7ee12fb7d wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>The <strong>Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/29\/business\/media\/corporation-public-broadcasting-firings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued the Trump administration<\/a> this week for removing three of its board members. The lawsuit alleges that although the board members are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, the CPB is a private corporation and therefore not under the authority of the president. These moves are happening amid a push from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/04\/14\/business\/media\/trump-npr-pbs-funding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">White House<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/media\/5273951-gop-npr-pbs-cuts-trump-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">members of Congress<\/a> to scale back federal government funding for the CPB, which supports NPR and PBS (including local member stations).&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-bde638cd75411f25 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2025\/03\/26\/americans-more-likely-to-support-than-oppose-continuing-federal-funding-for-npr-and-pbs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recent Center survey<\/a> found that 20% of U.S. adults say they regularly get news from NPR, and 21% say the same about PBS. Additionally, <strong>Americans are more supportive of the federal government continuing to fund NPR and PBS <\/strong>(43% favor this) than they are of the federal government removing funding (24%), although a third are unsure.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-26b80e8dc9073eaa wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>Republicans are much more likely than Democrats to support ending federal funding for public media, and also less likely to get news from NPR and PBS or to trust these outlets as sources of news.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-0fe609a2b6b6a2ad wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"25\" style=\"height: 25px !important\" data-height=\"25px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-ca4fb59204fc5588 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:18px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>\ud83d\udcca&nbsp;<strong>Chart of the week<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-af2d8a6ed61b21f7 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>Our chart this week comes from <a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2025\/04\/24\/free-expression-seen-as-important-globally-but-not-everyone-thinks-their-country-has-press-speech-and-internet-freedoms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our recent report<\/a> on freedom of speech, internet and the press around the world. A median of 28% across 35 countries say the media are completely free to report the news in their country. Another 38% think the media are somewhat free.&nbsp;<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-04e52fabb74fe5c6 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>Negative perceptions of press freedom are common in most of the Latin American countries surveyed, especially Chile. Roughly seven-in-ten Chileans (69%) say the media are not very or not at all free to report the news. And opinions are divided in Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-1f63efa4cc1ba735 wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"20\" style=\"height: 20px !important\" data-height=\"20px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-9cb6d4235492fa02 wp-block-newsletterglue-image ng-block aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"center\" style=\"padding-top:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;padding-right:0px\"><img data-dominant-color=\"daded8\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_3_02.webp\" alt=\"A bar chart showing the percentage of adults in 35 countries who say the media are completely free, somewhat free, not very free or not at all free to report the news in their country.\" class=\"wp-image-225739 ng-image not-transparent\" style=\"--dominant-color: #daded8; border-style:none;border-color:transparent\" width=\"420\" height=\"834\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_3_02.webp 420w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_3_02.webp?resize=151,300 151w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_3_02.webp?resize=204,405 204w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_3_02.webp?resize=200,397 200w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_3_02.webp?resize=260,516 260w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_3_02.webp?resize=310,616 310w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_3_02.webp?resize=160,318 160w, https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2025\/05\/pg_2025.04.24_free-speech_3_02.webp?resize=320,635 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-c6ebbfaf0795b385 wp-block-newsletterglue-spacer ng-block\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" height=\"25\" style=\"height: 25px !important\" data-height=\"25px\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-4044786658370595 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p><em>\ud83d\udc4b That&#8217;s all for this week.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<div width=\"100%\" class=\"ng-block-962f4eff19485433 wp-block-newsletterglue-text ng-block\" style=\"color:#2a2a2a\"><div><div><div class=\"ng-block-td\" align=\"none\" style=\"font-size:16px;font-family:Georgia;line-height:1.6;font-weight:normal;padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:10px;padding-left:20px;padding-right:20px;text-align:none;color:#2a2a2a\"><p>The Briefing is compiled by Pew Research Center staff, including Naomi Forman-Katz, Jacob Liedke, Christopher St. Aubin, Luxuan Wang and Emily Tomasik. 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