--- title: Jacob Mchangama | TIME description: Mchangama is the CEO of the Future of Free Speech Project at Vanderbilt University, a Senior Fellow at FIRE and author of Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social Media canonical: https://time.com/author/jacob-mchangama/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/jacob-mchangama/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Jacob Mchangama ## Jacob Mchangama Mchangama is the CEO of the [Future of Free Speech Project](https://futurefreespeech.com/) at Vanderbilt University, a Senior Fellow at FIRE and author of [Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social Media](https://www.amazon.com/Free-Speech-History-Socrates-Social/dp/1541600495/ref=tmm%5Fhrd%5Fswatch%5F0?%5Fencoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=) ## Jacob Mchangama *  Feb 26, 2024 ### [The Future of Censorship Is AI-Generated](https://time.com/6835213/the-future-of-censorship-is-ai-generated/) Artificial intelligence could supercharge the ability of governments and Big Tech to determine what ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 9, 2023 ### [Denmark and Sweden Give Up on Free Speech](https://time.com/6302649/denmark-swedens-quran-burnings-commitment-to-free-speech/) After a spate of Quran burnings, the Danish and Swedish governments are buckling to pressure and giv... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  May 30, 2023 ### [How to Kill Online Free Speech](https://time.com/6283395/online-free-speech/) The E.U. is encroaching on online free speech, the U.S. must not give in to further restrictions [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Dec 5, 2022 ### [What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Free Speech](https://time.com/6238614/elon-musk-wrong-about-free-speech/) Musk's erratic behavior does not bode well for the future of free speech on social media [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Aug 12, 2022 ### [In A War of Ideas, Censorship Is A Lousy One](https://time.com/6205645/russian-propaganda-censorship-history/) The EU's ban on Russian propaganda doesn't serve democracy. [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/jacob-mchangama/","name":"Jacob Mchangama"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/jacob-mchangama/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/jacob-mchangama/"},"name":"Jacob Mchangama","jobTitle":null,"description":"Mchangama is the CEO of the Future of Free Speech Project at Vanderbilt University, a Senior Fellow at FIRE and author of Free Speech: A History From Socrates to Social Media","url":"https://time.com/author/jacob-mchangama/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```