Zach Weismueller on Bringing the First Amendment into the 21st Century

Trevor Timm is the executive director
of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a nonprofit that works to
provide funding, encryption tools, and other resources to
journalists who expose government secrets. Timm’s group is backed
by heavy hitters-journalists Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras,
Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, actor John Cusack,
and former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward
Snowden. Timm sat down with Reason TV’s Zach Weissmueller in March
to discuss the vision for the project, how it plans to operate, and
what happens if the foundation becomes a target.

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