Censorship

Catherine Salgado | June 6, 2025

A federal program that caused scandal and controversy by targeting political dissidents is now history.

Catherine Salgado | June 6, 2025

One of the most popular right-leaning satire sites is taking on a state law that potentially criminalizes humor and political memes shared on social media.

Tom Olohan | June 5, 2025

A massive American financial institution publicly renounced debanking customers for their political views.

Catherine Salgado | June 5, 2025

About a third of the employees at one of the most infamous anti-free speech federal agencies have left since President Donald Trump took office, according to a new report.

The Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, popular since its debut, erases data pertaining to sensitive topics disapproved by the Chinese government, including Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, Jimmy Lai, and Uyghur rights. Despite initially processing encoded…

Catherine Salgado | June 4, 2025

Tech giant Google is scrambling to respond amid federal litigation as scrutiny over its search engine monopoly increasingly takes center stage.

Catherine Salgado | June 3, 2025

CBS News’s 60 Minutes platformed a famous author’s stunning claim that America’s political right is anti-free speech like the political left, but MRC has the evidence to prove heavy leftist censorship bias.

 

Catherine Salgado | June 2, 2025

A Texas bill that threatened free speech has failed to move ahead in the state legislature.

Tom Olohan | June 2, 2025

The Trump administration is coming after foreign government officials who pressure Big Tech platforms to censor Americans—and Brazil might be their first target.

Even as Meta seeks congratulations on free speech reforms amid federal scrutiny, the company tacitly admitted on Thursday that censorship is not over on its platforms.

 

The State Department is on the warpath against online censorship, and Republican lawmakers are rallying to the cause.

Michael Morris | May 29, 2025

“The Kids Online Safety Act is back” read multiple headlines as a “bipartisan pair of senators reintroduced” the bill May 14 with a subtle change in hopes that the legislation — which thankfully flatlined in the U.S. House after it passed 91-3 in…

Catherine Salgado | May 28, 2025

Free speech advocates are hailing Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s move to ban visas for foreign nationals implicated in censorship as a major step toward protecting freedom of speech worldwide.

Tom Olohan | May 28, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a big move against foreigners who trample the rights of Americans. 

Video platform Rumble has taken yet another step toward forming a censorship-free digital economy, one where Big Tech monopolies cannot deplatform apps based on their political views.

Tim Kilcullen | May 28, 2025

A freshman Ohio senator has lambasted Google’s YouTube for censoring critical information on the COVID-19 pandemic.

In a May 21 Homeland Security Governmental Affairs Committee hearing, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R, OH) condemned the Big Tech…

Curtis Houck | May 28, 2025

BUDAPEST, Hungary – On Wednesday morning, the group EU-U.S. Forum held its spring conference and – with former Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller alongside – took aim at the rise of government censorship both in the United States and the…

Catherine Salgado | May 27, 2025

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Congress the Trump administration might sanction a foreign judge infamous for censorship activities.

Tom Olohan | May 27, 2025

The Trump-appointed commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration exposed the Biden administration on Fox News for seeking to censor potentially damning information about vaccines.

Tom Olohan | May 23, 2025

Free speech advocates directly confronted the European Parliament (EP) and pushed the pro-censorship body to make a massive course correction.