The Free Press (known as Common Sense between 2021–2022) is an American Internet-based media company based in Los Angeles, California, founded by Bari Weiss and Nellie Bowles.

[11] In June 2021, as part of Common Sense, Weiss launched the podcast Honestly, which has since featured guests including Kim Kardashian, Bill Barr, and Andrew Yang.

[7][8] In 2022, she expanded The Free Press into a media company with staff writers (including senior editor Peter Savodnik[14] and Olivia Reingold[15]) and a subscription-based business model.

The film's synopsis is as follows: "The Free Press correspondent Olivia Reingold travels to America’s most elite colleges—from UPenn to Columbia—to find the origins of campus antisemitism and to ask how the smartest people in the country became the source of so much hate.

[18] Vanity Fair called The Free Press a "salon for the disenfranchised" in response to the notion that room for certain viewpoints is limited in legacy media.

[30] In late 2023, articles from The Free Press condemned the attack on Israel by Hamas and criticized legacy media coverage of the ensuing war for the spread of misinformation.

[32][33] In 2024, The Free Press first reported on a video of NYU professor Amin Husain denying sexual and gender-based violence in the 7 October attack on Israel and describing New York as a "Zionist city" at a Students for Justice in Palestine rally.