Censorship

Catherine Salgado | September 22, 2022

The Supreme Court may consider a Florida law banning social media censorship after the state’s attorney general petitioned the high court for a ruling on the law.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and multiple other Florida officials…

Catherine Salgado | September 21, 2022

Big Tech’s recent attempts to ramp up pre-election censorship are not restrictive enough for the leftist New York Times.

A Stern Center for Business and Human Rights at New York University report complained that social media platforms do…

Brian Bradley | September 20, 2022

All six witnesses representing Big Tech companies before a Senate committee last week mentioned “misinformation,” “disinformation” and/or “hate speech.”

Company executives, current and former, associated with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube…

Catherine Salgado | September 20, 2022

Canada’s CBC, a government-funded outlet, pushed increased online censorship to stop “radicalization” -- by conservatives like Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief and political commentator Ben Shapiro.

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)…

Brian Bradley | September 20, 2022

Political motivations drove Facebook’s reported spying on users’ private messages in the lead-up to the 2020 election, Brownstone Institute founder and President Jeffrey Tucker told MRC Free Speech America Thursday.

“The collaboration…

Catherine Salgado | September 19, 2022

Three pro-American organizations flayed an NBC News report last week that called for censorship of text messages in one of the latest leftist rallying cries against so-called “disinformation.” 

NBC published a story exaggerating the…

Gabriela Pariseau | September 19, 2022

Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, claimed to have accidentally allowed Republican and Democrat firms to dip into each other’s target audiences for political ads. 

A Snap spokesperson told MRC Free Speech America that the platform…

Autumn Johnson | September 18, 2022

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas's “free speech” law on Friday, which would prevent social media companies from censoring certain viewpoints online.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that the ruling was a…

Catherine Salgado | September 16, 2022

Shortly after Biden said MAGA Republicans represent a threatening “extremism,” the Biden White House heralded that leftist Big Tech companies, in “coordination” with the administration, will be rolling out new tools and policies to combat so-…

Paiten Iselin | September 16, 2022

All aboard the censorship train! Today’s destinations: YouTube and Eventbrite.

On this week’s episode of CensorTrack with Paiten, we looked at YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s attempt to portray her platform as a haven for free speech. We…

Autumn Johnson | September 16, 2022

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday that he signed a bill that will radically change how social media companies are required to disclose certain policies.

The law, which Newsom called a “transparency measure,” will require…

Catherine Salgado | September 15, 2022

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and two other Republican House lawmakers on Tuesday demanded the Biden White House hand over its correspondence allegedly pressuring Big Tech to increase online censorship.

House Energy and Commerce…

Joseph Vazquez | September 15, 2022

Woke Inc. author Vivek Ramaswamy didn’t mince words about the impact the world’s richest man had in giving shareholders a voice to fight the censors at Twitter.

The Strive Asset Management executive chairman joined the Sept. 14 edition…

NB Staff | September 14, 2022

What is the Department of Homeland Security doing online in the wake of the death of its failed Disinformation Governance Board? It’s trying to resurrect its remains and make something worse.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas…

Catherine Salgado | September 13, 2022

As another 9/11 anniversary came and went, Facebook censored 9/11 photos rather than what appeared to be an embarrassing suicide joke from President Joe Biden. Even Facebook had to admit its mistake. 

Facebook censored an image of a…

Catherine Salgado | September 12, 2022

YouTube’s CEO said she wants free speech on her platform. The only problem is that she qualified it. 

“We want to enable people to express their points of view and enable as much free speech as we possibly can have.”  YouTube…

Paiten Iselin | September 9, 2022

The Communist China-appeasing oligarchs at TikTok have kicked the platform’s ridiculous censorship apparatus into high gear to nix free speech from its platform.

MRC Free Speech America has been tracking TikTok’s anti-American censorship…

Catherine Salgado | September 8, 2022

The West is at “war.” At least, that’s how liberal journalist Glenn Greenwald described the tumultuous battle raging online that could determine whether or not the internet will be free.

Liberal journalist Glenn Greenwald slammed media…

Gabriela Pariseau | September 8, 2022

When in doubt, point to the Trump administration! That’s what White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre did Wednesday when she dodged a question about alleged collusion between the Biden administration and social media companies to suppress…

Catherine Salgado | September 7, 2022

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt (R) announced in a press release and on Twitter Tuesday that more bombshell documentation about alleged collusion between the Biden administration and Big Tech will be emerging.

The U.S. District…