PEN America
Donate Now
  • Issues & Advocacy
    • Book Bans
    • Educational Censorship
    • Campus Free Speech
    • Disinformation
    • Online Abuse
    • Writers at Risk
    • Artists at Risk Connection (ARC)
    • Global Advocacy
    • NYC Literary Action Coalition
    • Next Gen PEN
  • Writers & Readers
    • Literary Awards
    • Grants & Fellowships
    • PEN Across America
    • Prison and Justice Writing
    • Workshops & Trainings
    • Writers in the Schools Committee
    • Children’s and YA Books Committee
    • Translation Committee
  • Festival & Events
    • Events Calendar
    • Event Series
    • 2023 PEN America Literary Gala
    • 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony
    • 2022 PEN World Voices Festival
    • Authors’ Evenings
  • Read The Latest
    • Research & Reports
    • Take Action
    • #FreeTheBooks
    • Press Releases
    • Interviews & Features
    • PEN America Publications
  • Membership
  • About
    • PEN America at 100
    • About Us
    • PEN America Racial Equity Statement
    • Leadership and Staff
    • Trustees
    • Careers
    • Digital Archives
  • Give
    • Donate Now
    • Become a PEN America Young Patron
    • More Ways to Give
    • Shop
PEN America
Donate Now
  • Advocacy
    & Action
  • Writers
    & Readers
  • Festivals
    & Events
  • Issues & Advocacy
    • Book Bans
    • Educational Censorship
    • Campus Free Speech
    • Disinformation
    • Online Abuse
    • Writers at Risk
    • Artists at Risk Connection (ARC)
    • Global Advocacy
    • NYC Literary Action Coalition
    • Next Gen PEN
  • Writers & Readers
    • Literary Awards
    • Grants & Fellowships
    • PEN Across America
    • Prison and Justice Writing
    • Workshops & Trainings
    • Writers in the Schools Committee
    • Children’s and YA Books Committee
    • Translation Committee
  • Festival & Events
    • Events Calendar
    • Event Series
    • 2023 PEN America Literary Gala
    • 2023 PEN America Literary Awards Ceremony
    • 2022 PEN World Voices Festival
    • Authors’ Evenings
  • Read The Latest
    • Research & Reports
    • Take Action
    • #FreeTheBooks
    • Press Releases
    • Interviews & Features
    • PEN America Publications
  • Membership
  • About
    • PEN America at 100
    • About Us
    • PEN America Racial Equity Statement
    • Leadership and Staff
    • Trustees
    • Careers
    • Digital Archives
  • Give
    • Donate Now
    • Become a PEN America Young Patron
    • More Ways to Give
    • Shop
  • Home
Social media icons

PEN America Decries LinkedIn’s Apparent State-Influenced Censorship

Press ReleaseSeptember 29, 2021

PEN America today said that by blocking or otherwise censoring the LinkedIn profiles of journalists, activists, and writers, the company is capitulating to state-influenced censorship. More

Cell phone with apps on screen and lit up

The First Wave: Six Months of Social Media Platforms Responding to COVID-19

Resource

As the world rapidly responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, so too did the social media platforms. Here, we share our preliminary findings into the platforms’ responses. More

Oleg Sentsov

DARE: Sentsov Released, PEN America Honoree Calls for Release of Other Prisoners

News DigestSeptember 9, 2019

Dozens of U.S. states are set to launch antitrust and privacy investigations into Facebook and Google as scrutiny of the big tech firms increases. More

DARE: Supreme Court to hear Microsoft case: A question of law and borders

News DigestFebruary 27, 2018

Supreme Court hears U.S. v Microsoft about whether the US government has the power to search digital communications held on servers outside the country. Ivanka Trump rebuffs as "inappropriate"… More

Free Expression Digest: Wed., January 6

News DigestJanuary 6, 2016

Turkey releases VICE journalist on bail, Saudi executions seen as warning to dissenters, ISIS ran Facebook account of murdered journalist. More

Free Expression Daily Digest: Wed., September 23

News DigestSeptember 23, 2015

Bangladesh militants issue blogger hit list, Egypt releases Al Jazeera journalists, and American University Faculty stands up to trigger warnings More

How Tech Transparency is Good for Writers

Advocacy
By: Deji Olukotun | April 5, 2013

New trends in transparency reporting from tech companies are a welcome development for threatened writers. More

Microsoft pledges to stay in China despite Google’s threat to leave

January 15, 2010

Microsoft has no plans to pull out of China, its chief executive Steven Ballmer has confirmed, dashing hopes that the software giant would support its rival Google in its… More

Join PEN America Today

Defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture.

Subscribe

Get updates on events, literary awards, free expression issues, and global news.

 
 
  • What's New
Cancellation of Drag Benefit Show on Texas Campus Goes Against Norms of Free Expression
PEN America Speaks: How We Defended and Celebrated Free Expression This Week
Unsealed: The Blood and Ink of the Prison Pen
On Bridgeworks Oregon’s “Prisons Have a Long Memory: Life Inside Oregon’s Oldest Prison”

Alert Us

Are you an artist at risk or know someone who is?

PEN America On  

Retweet on Twitter PEN America Retweeted
hackmonster713 Tina (Christina) Hackey M.Ed. @hackmonster713 ·
4h

In Tallahassee for Library Day at the Capitol. #iloveschoollibraries #FREADom @FLFreedomRead

Reply on Twitter 1638271550754267137 Retweet on Twitter 1638271550754267137 11 Like on Twitter 1638271550754267137 32 Twitter 1638271550754267137
Retweet on Twitter PEN America Retweeted
jeremycyoung Jeremy C. Young @jeremycyoung ·
29m

I'll be on this live podcast on Thursday at 2 PM ET to discuss the new @ACEducation/@PENamerica resource guide for defending academic freedom at colleges and universities! https://pen.org/defending-academic-freedom-resource-guide/ https://twitter.com/Ahighervision/status/1638328383112196097

Reply on Twitter 1638331315299688448 Retweet on Twitter 1638331315299688448 1 Like on Twitter 1638331315299688448 3 Twitter 1638331315299688448
Retweet on Twitter PEN America Retweeted
kasey_meehan Kasey Meehan @kasey_meehan ·
2h

“All our stories, our history, our courage, are in books” — Alicia d. Williams surrounded by a crew of authors, parents, students, and book-loving, freedom to read-defending ADVOCATES at @FLFreedomRead & @FloridaMediaEd Read-In & Rally in Tally 💕💯📚

Reply on Twitter 1638310536453533697 Retweet on Twitter 1638310536453533697 7 Like on Twitter 1638310536453533697 24 Twitter 1638310536453533697
PEN America
588 Broadway, Suite 303
New York, NY 10012
T (212) 334-1660 F (212) 334-2181
PEN America Los Angeles
1370 N. St Andrews Place
Los Angeles, CA 90028
T (323) 424-4939
PEN America Washington, D.C.
1100 13th Street NW, Suite 800
Washington, D.C. 20005
Donate Today
 
Copyright © 2023 PEN America. All rights reserved.   |   Privacy Policy