Freedom of speech is a fundamental principle within democracy which enhances the civil liberty and political power of citizens in democratic nations. In the past decade, the appearance of socialmedia has both empowered and challenged freedom of speech, resulting in democratic inclusion and exclusion. This thesis aims to contribute new knowledge to freedom of speech in the context of social media. The prevailing views from the existing literature have illustrated that there is an insufficiency of frames to cover the overall picture and highlight untouched issues to freedom of speech in the context of social media. This will be exercised by identifying frames of ongoing patterns and social phenomena of online speech. There are two well-suited theoretical approaches applied to this study: Constructivism and framing theory. In order to address the subject of study, the thesis employed a comparative descriptive qualitative design, following the format of a small N comparative case study between two democratic nations’ major news outlets, the United States of America and Norway. The findings confirmed the existing literature’s claims regarding online free speech, which illustrated online speech patterns and behaviors of online hate speech and undermining democracy. The study also identified new frames which might contribute to the collective list of frames for this subject of study. They are ‘the distortion of freedom of speech’, ‘online harassment’, and ‘public attitude toward social media platforms’ regulation’. Furthermore, these frames indicated emerging problems like a decline in public discourses due to fear of a heated debate climate, and the rising suppression of employee’s freedom of speech in society which requires further attention, comprehension, and prevention.