Revealing the home address of public figures has become a predatory tactic among hostile political activist groups.
Censorship Project
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Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related…
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The Internal Revenue Service reportedly abandoned a plan that required taxpayers to use facial recognition software.
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The Heritage Foundation released a damning report blasting censorship and showing that it has jumped fully into the fight against Silicon Valley speech controls.
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Twitter launched a new tool that allows users to secretly downvote tweets to see how the company could “better surface the most relevant content,” the platform said in an email to MRC Free Speech America. Twitter will be able to taint tweets that…
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Reports have indicated that Spotify has removed approximately 70 episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Many on the left have attacked Rogan for his promotion of alternative treatments of COVID-19. “The apparent removal of the episodes, all of…
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The Anti-Defamation League, which has lobbied and advised Big Tech to censor speech, altered its definition of racism following The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s outrageous Holocaust remarks.
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Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) torched the news media for being a “source of misinformation” as senators discussed a proposal to allow news outlets to coordinate ad negotiations with Big Tech. MRC Vice President of Free Speech America and Business Dan…
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White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki called on music and podcast streaming platform Spotify to tighten its grip on speech to stop so-called “misinformation.” It’s a culture-war tactic often used by the left: Accept some subservience by others to…
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The leftist ratings firm NewsGuard criticized a Media Research Center study of the site’s ratings, calling it “fundamentally flawed.”
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World-famous podcaster Joe Rogan stirred up controversy with Cancel Culture mobs by interviewing medical professionals who questioned shifting narratives of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, rocker Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify in…
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An updated bill in Washington state has some worried that candidates could be jailed for political speech. According to The Seattle Times, the bill specifically limited the speech of candidates for public office to make it a crime to “knowingly,…
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U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called on Big Tech to remove Joe Rogan’s podcast because of so-called COVID-19 “misinformation.”
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Spotify apparently accepted singer Neil Young’s terms after he demanded the platform choose between his music and famed podcast host Joe Rogan. Old man, look at your life. Spotify noted in a response to the once-legendary Canadian-American singer…
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Twitter VP Sinéad McSweeney warned of unprecedented government crackdowns on free speech and requests for surveillance of internet users in the platform’s latest transparency report.
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Neil Young has reportedly demanded that Spotify become a safe space for him. The Once-legendary Canadian-American singer delivered an ultimatum to Spotify, according to Rolling Stone: Get rid of the massively popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast…
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Politics and sports commentator Clay Travis condemned YouTube for censoring an interview with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Travis called a penalty against Big Tech. “YouTube has refused to post our @clayandbuck interview with @RandPaul. Think about…
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Instagram has written in clear terms that the company’s moderators will reduce the spread of content not merely for violating the platform’s rules, but for even having the potential to offend viewers.
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Twitter commemorated the anniversary of Roe v. Wade instead of the March for Life.
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YouTube reportedly classified a recent sermon from evangelical pastor John MacArthur as “hate speech.”
