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@free_expression_foundation
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472subscribers
+23 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1003862098248 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @free_expression_foundation |
| Created | Between 1 February 2026 and 19 July 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 6 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 12 September 2026 |
| Measurements held | 8 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 12 September 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/free_expression_foundation |
Politics & activism — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 21 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 98% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 12 Sept 2026, 13:15 | 472 | -1 |
| 4 Sept 2026, 20:20 | 473 | -1 |
| 27 Aug 2026, 16:27 | 474 | +5 |
| 20 Aug 2026, 05:12 | 469 | +3 |
| 13 Aug 2026, 02:08 | 466 | +11 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 22:30 | 455 | +6 |
| 6 Aug 2026, 19:16 | 449 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 02:01 | 449 | first reading |
16 posts held, back to 19 July 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 16 posts for this entry, the most recent from 5 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
279 reactions across 15 posts, in 15 distinct kinds. The most used accounts for 31.5% of them.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 88 | 31.5% | |
| 🔥 | 58 | 20.8% | |
| 💯 | 36 | 12.9% | |
| 😡 | 33 | 11.8% | |
| ⚡ | 19 | 6.81% | |
| 👍 | 19 | 6.81% | |
| 🤬 | 9 | 3.23% | |
| 💩 | 3 | 1.08% | |
| 🗿 | 3 | 1.08% | |
| 🥰 | 3 | 1.08% | |
| 🏆 | 2 | 0.717% | |
| 🤔 | 2 | 0.717% | |
| 🤝 | 2 | 0.717% | |
| 👏 | 1 | 0.358% | |
| 🤣 | 1 | 0.358% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 15 of the 16 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 279 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 16 most recent posts we hold, published 19 July 2026 to 5 August 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
The Free Expression Foundation is in need of an attorney licensed to practice in Tennessee for an important First Amendment case. You can contact us by DM on X, by email [email protected], or our contact form on our website: https://freeexpressionfoundation.org/contact-fef/
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Attorneys in the Free Expression Foundation's network are riding the momentum generated by the victory at the state level for the Jacobs "littering" case. FEF lawyers filed a motion to expedite the Jacobses' appeal to pursue 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims against the officials who attacked their First Amendment rights. The motion recounts, "Abstention in the face of such manifest bad faith is error, any further prosecutio…
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FEF's twitter followership is neck and neck with telegram for the first time! Thank you to everyone who is helping to overcome the algorithm. Follow us if you haven't already ⬇️ https://x.com/FreeExpressFDN
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Glen Allen, a lawyer in the Free Expression Foundation's network, sent a demand letter to Accuracy in Media on behalf of Austin Franco for various causes of action related to their impersonation of Justice in the Classroom. Full details to be released soon!
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Huge victory for the First Amendment by attorneys in the Free Expression Foundation's network! Judge Brian Fortner granted the general demurrer and motion to quash by defendants Philip and Hilary Jacobs. Georgia brought littering charges against them for distributing flyers the Thought Police didn't like. Granting a general demurrer means that, even if every fact set out in the indictment is true, no crime occurred…
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The Free Expression's role is to find competent and sympathetic lawyers for victims of the Thought Police and, if necessary, help compensate those attorneys. Don't suffer in silence! Reach out to FEF and stand up for your rights.
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https://youtu.be/2Z_lC7ETLB0?si=3pk9sl20CZplNzHJ Austin Franco discusses his freedom of association on Piers Morgan. Austin's segment begins at 57:28
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Also Adam Guillette: let's pose as an education non-profit to spy on a college student for his political expression. Private and public power are working together to crush your rights.
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"Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty. To courageous, self-reliant men, with confidence in the power of free and fearless reasoning applied through the processes of popular government, no danger flowing from speech can be deemed clear and present, unless the incidence of the evil apprehended is so imminent th…
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BREAKING: Accuracy in Media (AIM) impersonated the non-profit Justice in the Classroom to gain a meeting with Austin Franco. AIM proceeded to surreptitiously record this conversation and heavily edit it. The Free Expression Foundation is investigating the incident! Hit-pieces like these are the tip of the spear for private and public power to harm the First Amendment.
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https://freeexpressionfoundation.org/rob-rundos-unenforceable-rights/ What rights do Americans really have? An official told active club founder Rob Rundo something revealing about the legal system: “You have the rights you can enforce.” Illustratively, Rundo spent 147 days in prison with no charges at all. Read the full story on our website.
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Showing the 12 most recent of 16 posts we hold for @free_expression_foundation. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
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“Free Expression Foundation” (@free_expression_foundation), 472 subscribers as measured 12 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/free_expression_foundation.
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