Opinion | How Big Oil is using friendly judges to muzzle free speech

Frida Ghitis: Free speech is under attack in the U.S. but it’s not the “woke left” nor disinformation researchers leading the charge, Ghitis says.

She says the real threat is spreading through the threat of spreading misinformation through the power of corporations to lie.

Ghitis asks: What is the First Amendment meant to protect? Or the rights of citizens to speak truth to power?.

60 activists were indicted for peacefully occupying a forest near Atlanta to protest a proposed police training facility known as Cop City .

Julian Zelizer : Civil anti-racketeering laws have been weaponized against environmental and social justice activists, and various nonprofit organizations that support protests.

Zelizer says repression has taken many forms, all supported by corporate interests, particularly extractive industries.