YouTube has demonstrated a strong socially leftist animus for years. FCC Chair Brendan Carr wants to get to the bottom of it.
The FCC Chair called out YouTube in a post Friday, exposing YouTube TV for allegedly discriminating against a faith-based media company. Carr wrote, “I have received complaints that Google’s @YouTubeTV is discriminating against faith-based programming. These concerning allegations come at a time when American public discourse has experienced an unprecedented—and unacceptable—surge in censorship. I’m asking Google for answers.”
In a letter to Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, Carr added that Great American Media accused YouTube TV in a letter of behavior that “deliberately marginalizes faith-based and family-friendly content.” According to Carr, Great American Media contrasted their presence on a wide range of platforms with YouTube TV’s apparent refusal to carry them. Carr followed this by ordering Pichai and Mohan to arrange a briefing with his office by today.
Donald Trump Jr. blistered Google in reaction to Carr’s post. Trump Jr. responded to Carr’s letter in a March 9 post on X, asking, “Is anyone surprised that Google is discriminating against Christian faith based programming?”
According to Deadline, YouTube publicly responded to Carr. YouTube denied that the platform discriminates against religious content and agreed to participate in Carr’s briefing. Great American Media did not respond to a request for comment from MRC Free Speech America.
If YouTube discriminated against Great American Media, it would not be the first time the platform showed anti-Christian bias. Pichai’s platforms frequently censor content and have been busted censoring religious content in the past. MRC Free Speech America has recorded 1,320 cases of censorship stemming from Alphabet Platforms, including 545 from YouTube in our exclusive CensorTrack database.
This censorship includes at least three cases of YouTube directly targeting Christian churches in 2021. Pastor Henry Hildebrandt told MRC Free Speech America that YouTube took down a video of his Sunday service and prevented him from posting for a week. YouTube also censored a livestream of Immanuel Baptist Church and punished Crossroads Church for depicting the crucifixion of Jesus Christ before Easter.
Additionally, YouTube has also weighed in to punish the speech of Christians like The Daily Wire host Matt Walsh on key issues such as abortion and so-called transgenderism. The platform even went as far as labeling a sermon by Rev. John MacArthur, where he quoted the Bible and defended biological reality as “hate speech.”
YouTube outright silenced pro-life publication Lifesite News in 2021, deleting its channel and all of its content. The platform also suspended Catholic media company EWTN’s Español account after the account posted pro-life content. YouTube even deleted content from the pro-life organization Created Equal.
Furthermore, YouTube routinely adds labels to pro-life videos and nearly all videos discussing abortion with links to pro-abortion information and pages that provide horrifying euphemisms such as “Abortion health information.” For example, YouTube added one such label to a 2015 video of Saint Mother Teresa speaking out for babies’ right to life. The label appears over and over and over again.
Alphabet and its platform YouTube have not earned the benefit of the doubt.
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.
