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February 7, 2022
Leftist Big Tech consulting organization Data & Society has added two flamboyant leftists, including pro-censorship former Reddit CEO Ellen Pao, to its Board of Directors.
The move will likely endanger American free speech rights, given Pao’s…
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February 16, 2022
Free speech advocates cautioned about giving the government and university researchers exclusive authority over social media data as lawmakers expect to soon consider a proposal to force new information disclosures from Big Tech.
A bipartisan bill…
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February 22, 2022
NewsGuard has reaffirmed its perfect rating of BuzzFeed News, even though the outlet continues to host the bogus Steele dossier on its website.
In an email to MRC, NewsGuard General Manager Matt Skibinski justified his company’s perfect “100/100”…
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February 25, 2022
NewsGuard CEO Steven Brill this week painted his company as a white knight that can save impressionable dupes from repeating another Jan. 6 “insurrection,” and said Fox News and OANN traffic in conspiracy theories.
Brill tried to represent his…
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March 2, 2022
UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect that Frances Haugen was one of the State of the Union guests for First Lady Jill Biden.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) called on President Joe Biden to take stronger…
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March 8, 2022
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said she’s happy that NewsGuard highly rates some news outlets that have been critical of her. And her group’s new partner was right by her side.
During a webinar Thursday, she and…
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March 17, 2022
Republican lawmakers tore into Big Tech for censoring the New York Post’s October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story on Thursday after The New York Times tied files on the computer to a federal investigation.
A Times article published Wednesday buried…
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March 22, 2022
Conservatives should pare down the several pending Big Tech reform bills into one or two pieces of legislation that can garner broad support if/when Republicans win control of Congress.
That’s according to American Principles Project (APP) Policy…
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March 28, 2022
Congress should target monopolies as it advances Big Tech legislation, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said last week. “If ninety percent of your searches go through one search engine, is that a monopoly?” McCarthy asked during an…
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April 29, 2022
UPDATE: This story has been updated to include a tweet by MRC President and founder Brent Bozell about the FEC filing and underlying North Carolina State University study.
Three powerhouse conservative political groups are pushing the Federal…