free speech, at least as an ideal. whereas this is not the case in the european union at all. there are many types of speech that are utterly prohibited. you have all kinds of restrictions on what you can say and who you can say to. and so the us remains the last bastion of hope for free speech, although i don't think x is really delivering it as promised. and i could talk about that but excess uh, holding out hope for the american public as a space for free speech that is not encumbered by the restrictions that the e u. intends to implement on the also for media regardless of where they originate . greg, the, even the free speech term seems to trigger officials right now, given the recent scandals between at europe and eat on loss. before that i'll fall on facebook. taylor brown in the cross hers as well. cut and brussels. actually just go and start finding, finding them all as some of threatened in brussels or, oh, is there a, is there a, a replacement with some kind of alternative? is it possible there is no replacement, like a bug, just desperate the trying to test out any

free speech. it fosters exchange of ideas and unions, especially those with which you might disagree.h learning would occur if we only preconceived notions. a few might disagree with senator rubio or our moderator, yet we expect everyone will respect the rights of our guests in moderator to exchanging and challenging of ideas. at the end there will be student question and answer during which you may ask questions. we can learn from one another. please be sure to phrase your statement in the form of a question. we ask each person ask only one question. tonight's special for me, our moderator will be speaking with my former boss, both of whom i respect a great deal. could not be prouder of our student who happens to be a constituent of senator rubio and in turn and my daughter. ladies and gentlemen, le sweet. >> welcome. i'm a freshman here at georgetown university. i have seen a large range of politics. speakers like rubio visiting our campus, almost three years ago i started knocking on doors for marco rubio. never the less i persisted to help senator rubio. as a senate page in high s

speech act, passed in 2023, gave universities a duty to promote free speech and allow the regulator to fine institutions or student unionshat failed to comply. critics, though, including education secretary bridget phillipson, paused that law last summer, warning it could expose universities to costly legal action. now, a government source says the act will be adjusted to balance academic freedom with a proper complaints process. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in an hour. now, though, it's over to matt for the very latest. >> gb news direct to your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. now, after 15 months of war since the 7th of october attacks, a ceasefire deal between israel and hamas has been reached. the deal is expected to include the return of all of the israeli hostages held by hamas, with israel offering palestinian detainees in exchange. israeli soldiers will also be phased out of gaza. donald trump wrote on truth social we ha

union. trust by verify. great he is a free speech champion.hen musk took over twitter he released the twitter files with all internal communications and names of who was doing what. he needs to release the facebook files. he says that they pressured him. who is they? i would like to know the names of the biden administrations officials, which u.s. government officials were pressuring facebook to censor speech on his platform? they resisted and said no way, we're not doing that. prove us, show us the time. the internal memos, the emails, communication showing that they pressured you and you resisted. i would like to know the evidence. >> dana: the biden administration and biden himself not happy with some of these changes. one of them being that zuckerberg said they will end the fact checking an go to more of a community notes format. here is what biden said about that. >> president biden: want to tell the truth. the idea that, you know, a billionaire can buy something and say by the way from this point on we're not going to fact check anything

speech act, passed in 2023, gave universities a duty to promote free speech and allowed the regulator to fine institutions or student unions that failed to comply. critics, including the education secretary, though, paused that law last summer, warning it could expose universities to costly legal action. now, a government source says the act will be adjusted to balance academic freedom with a proper complaints process. and police are investigating after a woman reported her drink was spiked in a bar at the houses of parliament. the parliamentary researcher made the complaint to staff and security on the 7th of january, just days after mps returned from their christmas break. the met police says they are supporting the victim and have confirmed an investigation is now underway, though no arrests have been made so far. home secretary yvette cooper has condemned the act, calling it disturbing and serious. that's the news on gb news. plenty more still to come. now, though, it's time for headliners for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >

you don't want to miss that, and we'll be joined by the founder of the free speech union, toby young,s telling us about the free speech union's latest battles with the department for education and wikipedia bias. and of course, myself. and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from our wonderful studio audience. my comedian guest this evening are jonathan kogan and steve and alan. welcome. hello, josh. how are you doing? >> touching. see you. love to see you guys. how you doing? thank you. >> and our audience here. thank you. yes. so a big, big week. obviously we just saw in the news that the three of the hostages are alive and have been returned to their families. i don't know, the vibe i get from the jewish community is just around the world is just immense relief. right? it's just everybody's. the last few days, we've just been waiting with bated breath. yes. >> yeah, absolutely. and, you know, hopefully we'll see many more returned alive and well. hopefully. >> exactly. now, steve, obviously you're not jewish. you don't care about this. you're going to be open with tiktok

i'll be joined by the director of the free speech union, toby, soon to be lord young, in just a momentstate of the nation starts now. i'll also be joined by my most pugnacious panel, former editor of the sun, kelvin mackenzie, and the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop. as even broadcaster tessa dunlop. as ever, let me know your views. it's a crucial part of the programme mailmogg@gbnews.com. but now it's your favourite time of the day. the news bulletin with tatiana sanchez. >> jacob. thank you. the top stories this hour. jess phillips says she has more important things to be thinking about than elon musk, after he accused her of being a rape genocide apologist, the safeguarding minister has hit back at the billionaire's criticism of her for the first time. >> being in the spotlight like this , and the intimation of what this, and the intimation of what elon musk is. the disinformation, as i believe the prime minister referred to it as has put out about me, is endangering. >> it's endangering you. i just want to be absolutely clear. are you saying that as a result of some of musk'

it's a bit like joining the free speech union for louis.n, there comes a critical point where you just. it's not worth it. can you imagine what they'd charge you? >> well, i think that, yes, it would be. it would be a problem. i know and you know, to cressida, you know, people react really negatively to me. >> they do, don't they. >> they do, don't they. >> they do, don't they. >> they don't know. they don't know, they don't like me. so at what point is that like something you can go to court and say, cressida doesn't like me. how come she doesn't like me? i want some money because she doesn't. >> i don't think it's just getting cancelled by cressida. >> i'm just using her as an example. steve doesn't like me. what about josh? doesn't like me? >> how do they prove what you would have earned? this is what i want to know. the article doesn't tell us. it just says that you can get a crisis helpline. you'd love that. someone to talk to 24 hours a day. but how do we assess what louis schaefer would have earned had he known how to behave properly

free speech, you know, like we have in free societies. of course, the guardian want all our speech to be policed like they have in the soviet union, which apparently is a model society. if you're a guardian journalist. but yeah, this is great. >> basically, mark zuckerberg is going to replace. >> by the way, fact checking, like the fact checking on comments isn't going away. they're going to let community notes replace it, which is a much better system. it's free. it's democratic. it's literally free. you don't have to pay anything for it, which might be part of the appeal. and the move is being seen as a pivot towards donald trump. so, you know, the community is going to police itself. we're going to let people say, you know, if a post is wrong, they can they can call it. >> so what that means then is that the fact checking community notes, people say, no, that's notes, people say, no, that's not right. leo's talking rubbish. this is what really happened. and if i'm right, then lots of people give me a thumbs up.and lots of people give me a thumbs up. and if i'm the one talking rubbish. >> yeah. i mean, it's never happened before. you know, it's.

speech act, passed in 2023, gave universities a duty to promote free speech and allow the regulator to fine institutions or student unionshat fail to comply. critics, though, including the education secretary, paused that law last summer, warning it could expose universities to costly legal action. now, a government source says the act will be adjusted to balance academic freedom with a proper complaints process. that's the news on gb news. i'll be back with you at 10:00 now, though, it's over to patrick for the very latest gb news direct to your smartphone, sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> welcome along everybody. good evening. so look, i just wanted to start tonight's show by reminding everybody of this epic fundraiser that so many of you have taken part in and say, massive thank you, £303,000 has been raised for the maggie oliver foundation. you can go to gofundme.com. forward slash stop grooming gangs. there's actually a qr code on your screen there, so if you hover your phone over it, then there you go. i will just say this, which is that grooming gangs go in and out of t

speech act, passed in 2023, gave universities a duty to promote free speech and allow the regulator to fine institutions or student unionst failed to comply. critics, though, including the education secretary, paused that law last summer, warning it could expose universities to costly legal action. well, now, a government source says the act will be adjusted to balance academic freedom with a proper complaints process. and let's just bring you a recap. if you're just joining us here on gb news of that breaking news tonight from the middle east that israel and hamas have reportedly reached an agreement for a ceasefire after more than a year of deadly fighting in gaza. we are expecting a official announcement from doha later in qatar. we will keep that live for you as it happens. also, just to bring you some reaction to the ceasefire announcement, first from donald trump, who will, of course, once again be president of the united states in just a few days. he has hailed the ceasefire tonight as an epic deal, claiming it could only have been achieved after what he described as his historic victory in the november elections

speech act, passed in 2023, gave universities a duty to promote free speech and allow the regulator to fine institutions or student unionshat failed to comply. critics, though, including education secretary bridget phillipson, paused that law last summer, warning it could expose universities to costly legal action. now, a government source says the act will be adjusted to balance academic freedom with a proper complaints process. those are the latest gb news headlines for now. i'll be back with you in an hour. now, though, it's over to matt for the very latest. >> gb news direct to your smartphone. sign up to news alerts by scanning the qr code or go to gbnews.com/alerts. >> welcome back to state of the nafion >> welcome back to state of the nation with me, matt goodwin. now, after 15 months of war since the 7th of october attacks, a ceasefire deal between israel and hamas has been reached. the deal is expected to include the return of all of the israeli hostages held by hamas, with israel offering palestinian detainees in exchange. israeli soldiers will also be phased out of gaza. donald trump wrote on truth social we ha

union subsidising trips to palestine? i'll be asking journalist nicole lampert. and are the changes at meta a victory for free speech?e'll be asking the director of the social market foundation, theo bertram, and of course, myself and my fantastic panel will be answering questions from our wonderful studio audience. my our wonderful studio audience. my comedian guest this evening are christa wetton and kerry marx. hello, hello, welcome, welcome. how are you? are you all right? well. thank you. yes. you seem well. when i saw you two seconds ago. outside. i'm fine. how are you? i haven't changed, everything's wonderful. and. kerry, how are you? it's your first time on free speech. >> nation doesn't change over two seconds. i've noticed this. she's very, very unchanged. yes. yes. it's my first time on free speech nation. and my first time i've been allowed to talk to people. thank you very much for this opportunity. i don't want to over try and ingratiate myself with the audience, but you all look beautiful. >> that's it. classic. >> classic. >> classic. >> yeah. two people are at work, then? yes. so welcome. and how ar