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Tom Olohan | May 16, 2025

Vice President JD Vance warned radio and podcast host Glenn Beck that Americans should be concerned about anti-free speech moves abroad, predicting significant “friction” between America and other nations.

Vance told Beck that America and…

MRC Free Speech America has proof to illustrate what a massive and ongoing problem Big Tech censorship is—a fact Twitter Files Journalist Michael Shellenberger underscored Sunday on X.

Shellenberger blasted The Independent for referencing…

Catherine Salgado | May 15, 2025

House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is looking to protect speech both domestically and abroad.

American tech companies have a global reach and often face government demands for censorship—meaning foreign requests can end up…

Gabriela Pariseau | May 15, 2025

In the middle of a historic trial with the Federal Trade Commission that could break up Meta and fracture the company, the New York Post broke a story about how Meta contacted one of its top critics, MRC’s own Dan Schneider, in what appeared to…

Catherine Salgado | May 14, 2025

Google DeepMind just announced a new partnership with startups to give access to its artificial intelligence, which has a track record of crushing free speech and displaying extreme bias.

In a May 12 press release, Google’s Jonathan…

Tom Olohan | May 14, 2025

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), stressed that medical and scientific advancement is made possible by the protection of free speech. 

Bhattacharya condemned pandemic censorship and discussed…

Luis Cornelio | May 14, 2025

If there’s one agency drowning in its own regulatory self-importance and formerly entangled in censorship, it’s the FCC. 

In an op-ed for the Daily Caller, FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington delivered the expected bombshell: the FCC…

Catherine Salgado | May 14, 2025

What characteristics and priorities should the newly elected pope have? Opinions both in and outside the Catholic Church abound, but the bias and warped priorities programmed into artificial intelligence on this topic may leave even the most avid…

Catherine Salgado | May 13, 2025

The new pope of the Catholic Church emphasized the importance of free speech while warning of another looming threat: Big Tech.

Pope Leo XIV told journalists on Monday that the “precious gift of free speech” must be protected, though he…

Tom Olohan | May 13, 2025

MRC Free Speech America made a disturbing find on the website of a radical anti-free speech group. 

MRC researchers found that some of the worst censors are highly decorated by the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), a group that pushes…

Tom Olohan | May 12, 2025

Member of the Assembly of Deputies of Romania George Simion told Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec what free speech on social media means to his campaign and his country. 

Simion credited social media with ending mainstream…

Catherine Salgado | May 12, 2025

A free speech advocate under fire in another country recently praised the Trump administration for its stance on free speech.

Canadian Chris Elston, famous online as “Billboard Chris,” has been fined and threatened with arrest in…

Luis Cornelio | May 12, 2025

A new study from the Media Research Center found that Google appeared to have worked overtime to ensure Pope Leo XIV resembled the late Pope Francis, a figure whose views occasionally unsettled traditional and “conservative” Catholics.

At…

Michael Morris | May 9, 2025

From the minds that brought the world the promise of greater connectivity in a disconnected world that has ultimately led us to where we are today—a “smart” device-hyped, phone-obsessed, online-centric society of instant gratification via rapid…

Catherine Salgado | May 9, 2025

Elon Musk’s X has agreed to censor the account of an imprisoned mayor in Turkey, but is strongly protesting the government’s anti-free speech demands.

X followed a legal demand blocking the account of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu within…

Tom Olohan | May 8, 2025

A Democratic representative mourned a huge change to a government agency responsible for massive censorship. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem put him in his place. 

Rep. Ed Case (D-HI) went after Noem during a…

Catherine Salgado | May 8, 2025

President Donald Trump has withdrawn his nominee for surgeon general who praised and endorsed online censorship.

Trump announced on Truth Social Wednesday that he had withdrawn Nesheiwat’s nomination in favor of Dr. Casey Means, an ally…

Catherine Salgado | May 7, 2025

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has filed a “first-in-the-nation rule” to end Big Tech’s censorship monopoly.

Bailey announced Tuesday that he filed a rule under the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act to secure “freedom of…

Catherine Salgado | May 6, 2025

The Trump White House signaled it may consider granting asylum to Europeans targeted for their free speech.

At a White House press briefing on April 28, former Mumford & Sons musician and podcast host Winston Marshall asked whether…

Tom Olohan | May 6, 2025

Trump’s State Department condemned an anti-free speech government pressuring X to censor.

The State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor went after Australia in a May 1 post on X after the country “required X to remove a…