Studies & Reports

Gabriela Pariseau | June 9, 2025

In a search for “H.R. 4,” Google dug deep to avoid elevating the most recent bill with that title and instead propped up a controversial bill from 2021. 

Congress will vote on H.R. 4, the Rescissions Act of 2025, this week, but when…

Gabriela Pariseau | June 6, 2025

Google is once again eliminating right-leaning media outlets and organizations from search results.

MRC researchers searched the words “trump rescission” on Tuesday, the day the Trump administration sent a $9.4 billion rescissions package…

Despite widespread praise following its debut, the communist Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek completely erased an entire day: June 4, 1989 — the date of the Tiananmen Square massacre, 36 years ago today.

MRC researchers asked DeepSeek a…

Gabriela Pariseau | June 4, 2025

Even Google couldn’t mask  PBS's bias when comparing how the outlet treated former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

MRC researchers asked Google’s AI chatbot Gemini on Monday, “Does PBS coverage…

Gabriela Pariseau | June 2, 2025

Did Google just use leftist Wikipedia to cover for news outlets that are due for a reckoning?

MRC researchers asked Google Search on Thursday whether NPR and PBS hid the Hunter Biden laptop story. At the top of the two searches, Google’s…

Gabriela Pariseau | May 21, 2025

Google Search is spotlighting leftist organizations in a query asking whether gender transition surgery is an emergency medical service. 

This National Emergency Medical Services Week, Google got the answer right, but it still…

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…

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…

Gabriela Pariseau | May 5, 2025

Google has a long history of interfering in elections in favor of leftwing candidates. The search giant now leaves no doubt when it comes to which political party’s election-related legislation it boosts in search results. 

MRC Free…

Tom Olohan, Dan Schneider | April 17, 2025

Executive Summary

MRC Free Speech America previously exposed Wikipedia editors for meddling with the pages of Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel. Vice President JD Vance wasn’t spared poor treatment either.

Wikipedia…

Gabriela Pariseau | April 3, 2025

Are NPR and PBS biased? Should they receive taxpayer funding? Don’t ask Google. The company’s AI chatbot showed its bias when it answered by simply pushing the leftist legacy media outlets in question.

Google showed a clear bias when MRC…

Luis Cornelio | March 25, 2025

Media Research Center data indicates that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to implement pro-free speech policies across Meta appears to have had an almost immediate impact.

“Zuckerberg has put his money where his mouth is,” said MRC Vice…

Tom Olohan | March 19, 2025

Shortly after President Donald Trump announced key cabinet nominees, Wikipedia editors changed their pages in an apparent attempt to highlight damaging information. The editors appear to have carefully timed these cunning changes to be made…

President Joe Biden and his administration spent four years continuously attacking the First Amendment and the free speech rights enshrined by the nation’s Founders. 

The Biden administration’s censorship efforts ran the gamut from…

Luis Cornelio | February 3, 2025

Hoping to avoid misinformation about President Donald Trump’s nominees and appointments on Wikipedia? Good luck. Wikipedia has designed a protocol that directly and unerringly produces the worst descriptions about conservatives and Republicans by…

Gabriela Pariseau | January 24, 2025

Google has, for the third year in a row, aided Planned Parenthood in preying on pregnant women looking for help.

MRC Free Speech America examined Google results for the word “pregnancy help,” and the online search platform has once again…

Gabriela Pariseau | January 20, 2025

Google’s AI chatbot Gemini refuses to answer basic questions about President Donald Trump’s 2025 inauguration—a stark contrast to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and X’s Grok, a Media Research Center (MRC) analysis found. 

On Monday, Gemini…

Tom Olohan | January 16, 2025

Just one day after Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apparently steered his platforms away from censorship and election interference, Google shamelessly pressed on with its efforts to rig search results against President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees.…

Tom Olohan | January 9, 2025

As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration draws closer, Google is still relentlessly working to bring down his cabinet-level picks and other nominees. 

MRC researchers consistently found a glut of leftist articles and personal…

Catherine Salgado | December 24, 2024

Big Tech aimed for a Silent Night all year long as it silenced users’ free speech. While Americans voted for their political leaders, Big Tech platforms took every opportunity to vote for censorship.

Election-interfering censorship was…