Censorship

Tim Kilcullen | October 30, 2024

The Media Research Center is asking the Federal Communications Commission to undo its creation of a lawless Soros shortcut.

Yesterday, the Media Research Center (MRC) and MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell filed a formal petition to…

Catherine Salgado | October 30, 2024

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) has appealed to Big Tech companies to prioritize free speech ahead of the 2024 election.

In response to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and a group of seven Democrat lawmakers writing to tech companies to insist on…

Catherine Salgado | October 29, 2024

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have taken leftist, biased media ratings firm NewsGuard to task for its ties to the Biden-Harris administration.

Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) sent a letter to NewsGuard Co-CEOs Steven…

Patrick Doran, Luis Cornelio | October 29, 2024

Former President Donald Trump and popular podcast host Joe Rogan called out Big Tech’s interference in the 2020 presidential election, predicting a new era where young Americans will break free from censorship and leftist “wokeness.”

Catherine Salgado | October 28, 2024

GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance told NewsNation that America’s number one threat is the relentless attacks on freedom of speech.

Vance mourned how divided Americans have become and said that those divisions are in part fueled by…

Catherine Salgado | October 28, 2024

Tech giant Microsoft is once again taking aim at free speech as the 2024 election approaches.

In an Oct. 23 blog post, Microsoft accused U.S. adversaries Russia, China, and Iran of “undermining U.S. democratic processes” with online…

Catherine Salgado | October 25, 2024

Less than two weeks before the 2024 election, legacy media and government leftists are doubling down on their anti-free speech pressure campaign encouraging social media companies to censor.

The New York Times published an article…

Donald Perkins | October 25, 2024

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey has vowed to launch an investigation into Google’s rampant election interference on Thursday, affirming that the tech giant “is waging war on the democratic process.”

In a statement posted on X,…

Tom Olohan | October 25, 2024

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joined a chorus of leftist voices begging Big Tech to censor more aggressively, hearkening back to the days of even more aggressive content moderation. 

Warner went after X and TikTok for their lack of…

Tom Olohan | October 25, 2024

In a shocking move, the official page dedicated to Free Speech Week promoted an event devoted to a new and pernicious type of censorship: media literacy. 

Free Speech Week was founded in 2005 by The Media Institute and the National…

Patrick Doran, Gabriela Pariseau | October 24, 2024

For once, Google’s YouTube actually got it right by not suppressing content surrounding the evolving journalistic scandal at CBS News, MRC researchers found. 

On Oct. 6, CBS News’s Face the Nation previewed a 60 Minutes interview…

Gabriela Pariseau | October 24, 2024

Common sense would tell most people that it shouldn’t take two months and a committee of global progressives to figure out that Meta should allow political satire and harmless memes on its platforms. But it’s quite clear that the folks at Meta…

Donald Perkins | October 24, 2024

Former independent presidential candidate  Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was terrified to hear of renowned  Dr. Robert Epstein’s study uncovering Google's election interference and censorship.

On the Oct. 22 edition of the RFK Podcast,…

Donald Perkins | October 24, 2024

Two former Democrats (now free speech advocates) scolded their party’s shift toward authoritarianism and “dystopian” censorship of dissent.

During the Oct 14 episode of the Keeping it Real podcast, host Jillian Michaels and guest Dave…

Joseph Vazquez, Dan Schneider | October 24, 2024

The Media Research Center (MRC) seeks to uphold the original vision of Free Speech Week, and nothing encapsulates those efforts more than the free speech advocates MRC has honored this year.

Free Speech Week was founded in 2005 by The…

MRC Staff | October 24, 2024

MRC President Brent Bozell and MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider blasted key leaders of the Democratic Party for making a sharp left turn against Americans’ First Amendment freedoms. 

Bozell and Schneider wrote an…

Catherine Salgado | October 23, 2024

The head of the World Health Organization has once again insisted that social media and governments work to crush free speech surrounding health and medical mandates.

Years after most people have moved on from COVID-19, globalists like…

Tom Olohan | October 23, 2024

It’s late October in an election year and Meta is once again throttling a story that embarrasses Democrats, prompting Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr to sound the alarm on Fox Business.

Carr condemned the social media…

Luis Cornelio | October 23, 2024

A shocking number of current and former U.S. presidential nominees have pushed for online censorship. Their comments include calling for the criminalization of speech, banning opposition speech in the name of mis-, dis- or mal-information, and…

Donald Perkins, Dan Schneider | October 23, 2024

For our first annual Free Speech Awards, the Media Research Center (MRC) is honoring 35 champions of the First Amendment, including five members of the U.S. Senate (announced Monday), and 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives (announced…