Jacob Mchangama ✓

@JMchangama · Nashville, TN/Copenhagen, DK · joined 23 Feb 2009

CEO @speechfuture, R. Professor @VanderbiltU Sr Flw @thefireorg, author "Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media" (2022) @basicbooks

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11 889Posts total

39.9KViews on collected posts

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Jacob Mchangama ✓@JMchangama17 Sep

Harvard yesterday: free speech on platforms and campuses. Guest lecture in Monika Bickert’s Online Speech Governance class at HLS; afternoon with the Harvard Council on Academic Freedom, moderated by Randall Kennedy. Grateful to Monika, Randall, the Council—and the students. ht

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Jacob Mchangama ✓@JMchangama16 Sep

I’ll be at Harvard discussing free speech and academic freedom with prof. Randall Kennedy this afternoon. Join us if you’re in the Boston area. 2.8K views · 18 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Jacob Mchangama ✓@JMchangama15 Sep

Merz to young Germans: don’t tell me “free speech.” He wants real-name rules and state “protection” against anonymity, disinformation, defamation, discrimination, and “many other things” — all impossible, he says, under the American “libertarian” idea of free speech. 3.7K views · 42 likes · 10 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Jacob Mchangama ✓@JMchangama15 Sep

1/ Frederick Douglass called free speech “the dread of tyrants” and a “sacred right.” But those quotes only scratch the surface. I built the Douglass Free Speech Corpus and audio player so you can study the man yourself. A few of his greatest hits:🧵 https://t.co/7tJKbGPvbL

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Jacob Mchangama ✓@JMchangama14 Sep

The Vibe Shift comes full circle. Now cancel-culture is absolutely necessary..... 3.1K views · 20 likes · 6 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Jacob Mchangama ✓@JMchangama8 Sep

The Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard @cafh is bringing Jacob Mchangama, expert on the history of free speech, to speak at Harvard next week. — Harvard Gazette https://t.co/qSzqdQZYWa 27.6K views · 52 likes · 6 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →

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6 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé à plus de monde que les comptes de taille comparable.

Vues médianes2 948ce compte924médiane pour 10K–100K

Portée, %17.79%ce compte3.62%médiane pour 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.21%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K

Indicateur	Ce compte	Médiane pour 10K–100K	Rapport
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Portée (vues ÷ abonnés)	17.79%	3.62%	4.91×
Taux d'engagement	1.21%	1.52%	0.80×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

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Last 6 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

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0.93%14 Sep

2.24%15 Sep

1.50%

0.86%16 Sep

3.35%17 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.

What the audience does

Likes71.6%184 in total

Reposts16.3%42 in total

Replies2.7%7 in total

Quotes1.2%3 in total

Bookmarks8.2%21 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.