Censorship

Catherine Salgado | December 13, 2024

TikTok attempted to duck a threat to end the tech company's business operations by boasting about its efforts to silence election-related free speech.

Catherine Salgado | December 12, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Federal Trade Commission could turn into Big Tech’s worst nightmare.

Tom Olohan | December 12, 2024

Google stacked search results for Trump nominees with legacy and leftist media sources for the fourth straight week. In fact, the search giant went above and beyond to push outlets that encourage hatred of several of President-elect Donald Trump’…

Catherine Salgado | December 11, 2024

Communist Chinese government-tied TikTok has lost another appeal in court but is still desperately trying to halt a federal law empowering the president to impose a national ban against it.

Tom Olohan | December 11, 2024

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) sounded the alarm about the lame-duck Democrat-led Senate moving earth and heaven to secretly pass legislation that poses an impending threat to Americans’ freedom of speech. 

Catherine Salgado | December 11, 2024

Another federal censorship agency bites the dust as the State Department dissolves its interagency censorship funding arm, the Global Engagement Center.

Joseph Vazquez | December 10, 2024

It looks like the Federal Communications Commission under Brendan Carr won’t be the only agency looking to tear down the government-backed dystopian activities of website traffic cop NewsGuard.

Catherine Salgado | December 10, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for artificial intelligence czar has drawn praise from free speech advocates, including Rumble CEO Chris Pavlovski, because of his outspoken criticism of Big Tech censorship.

Tim Kilcullen | December 10, 2024

The leader of the Media Research Center issued a warning to Congress about a “Trojan horse for the left’s agenda.”

In a statement posted today on X, MRC founder and president Brent Bozell cautioned Congress not to pass the new version of…

Catherine Salgado | December 9, 2024

The Biden-Harris administration has lavished millions of taxpayer dollars on research that drives online censorship of free speech, a damning report found.

Catherine Salgado | December 7, 2024

Chinese-owned app TikTok lost its main bid to halt a ban at the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Catherine Salgado | December 6, 2024

A member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has called for accountability for ad entities or “advertising cartels” actively crushing free speech.

Catherine Salgado | December 6, 2024

The Heritage Foundation has warned Americans against believing that Big Tech oligarchs want substantive reform while censorship continues on.

Tom Olohan | December 6, 2024

MRC Free Speech America has caught Google rigging search results for President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent nominees before, and the search engine is at it yet again. 

Tom Olohan | December 5, 2024

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and the creators of a newly released free speech documentary on free speech got to the heart of the decision that dealt a major blow to Big Tech censorship.

Luis Cornelio | December 5, 2024

A top Meta executive admitted to what many have long affirmed: its social media platforms are stifling Americans’ free speech and then citing errors when called out.

Catherine Salgado | December 5, 2024

Before and after Election Day 2024, Big Tech platforms voted for election interference.

Tim Kilcullen | December 5, 2024

Big Tech’s censorship efforts just hit a yuuuge roadblock.

In a statement on Truth Social, incoming (and former) President Donald J. Trump announced that he will nominate competition hardliner Gail Slater to lead the Department of Justice…

Donald Perkins, Luis Cornelio | December 4, 2024

Federal Communications Commissioner and incoming Chair Brendan Carr is offering details on how he will succeed in his pledge to, once and for all, “smash” Big Tech’s censorship regime, including entities like NewsGuard.

Luis Cornelio | December 3, 2024

Facebook pulled the trigger by suspending—and later reinstating—the page of one of the nation’s largest gun manufacturers.