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Techdirt
U.S. center-left, tech-policy and civil-liberties focused
Techdirt is an independent tech-policy blog owned by Mike Masnick's company, Floor64. It takes a civil-liberties, pro-free-speech, anti-surveillance, pro-open-internet position, and it is usually critical of government overreach. Its 2026 coverage of the second Trump administration is mostly critical. It has run sharply worded pieces on election control, public health cuts, tariffs and protectionism, and national security staffing.
Owned byOwned by Floor64, Inc., a small private company founded and led by Mike Masnick, who is also Techdirt's editor.
LeaningU.S. center-left, tech-policy and civil-liberties focused
On the administrationbroadly critical
8average bias score across 1 story
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun
1 = straight reporting · 10 = heavily spun