Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) released on June 11 its 2025 Viewpoint Diversity Scores Business Index, and Big Tech companies are low on the free speech totem pole.
Amazon, Meta and Google parent company Alphabet were among the corporations rated in ADF’s fourth annual index that assesses companies’ support for free speech and religious liberty. As expected, these tech giants received very low scores, on a scale which ranges from 0 to 100 percent. MRC’s unique CensorTrack database shows just how censorship-obsessed the platforms are.
Alphabet earned a six percent score for free speech and religious liberty and only five percent for its public square actions, which include political spending that undermined free speech. Amazon’s and PayPal’s ratings are equally low at six percent. PayPal’s low score is unsurprising, given that it has financially blacklisted multiple people, including social media commentator Ian Miles Cheong in 2022.
In just one example of these companies’ bias, MRC’s new study—released ahead of Flag Day and the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army (both June 14)—showed that Google’s artificial intelligence chatbot Gemini is programmed with strong anti-American bias.
“Yes, the American flag can be considered controversial, and its symbolism is often debated,” Gemini pontificated on June 6. “While it is widely seen as a symbol of unity, freedom, and national pride, it also carries different, sometimes conflicting, meanings for various groups of people.”
Shockingly, ADF rated Apple even lower than Google, at only three percent, including for not respecting users’ freedom of expression and belief. In 2023, Apple Podcasts removed The Glenn Beck Show.
Meta managed to achieve a slightly higher rating of nine percent but remains overall anti-free speech, especially regarding political spending. Additionally, Meta’s platforms regularly suppress speech. In May, for instance, Instagram inexplicably deleted Telegram CEO Pavel Durov’s post quoting a famous philosopher.
Other Big Tech companies rated poorly by ADF include eBay (12 percent), Snap Inc. (10 percent), Pinterest (four percent), Etsy (six percent) and Microsoft (seven percent), which owns and censors speech on LinkedIn. In May, LinkedIn deleted a post criticizing harmful vaccines from Joel Kahn, MD.
Conservatives are under attack! Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.
