Censorship

Joseph Vazquez | March 21, 2022

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database reached an important milestone as it continues to monitor the war Big Tech companies have waged on free speech online.

CensorTrack has now surpassed 3,500 total censorship cases documented by…

Joseph Vazquez | March 18, 2022

NewsGuard CEO Steven Brill outed himself as completely biased before The New York Times’ confirmation of the existence of Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop emails.

The New York Times recently confirmed what conservatives already knew —…

Brian Bradley | March 17, 2022

Republican lawmakers tore into Big Tech for censoring the New York Post’s October 2020 Hunter Biden laptop story on Thursday after The New York Times tied files on the computer to a federal investigation.

A Times article published…

Alexander Hall | March 17, 2022

Big Tech censorship went from targeting statements of former President Donald Trump to targeting quotes of current President Biden’s embarrassing statements. Heritage Action was their latest target.

Is quoting the president’s own words a…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | March 16, 2022

It’s Episode 29 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how YouTube censored a  podcast episode featuring former President Donald Trump. 

Full Send Podcast features a group of “boys havin some honest convos,” according…

Catherine Salgado | March 15, 2022

UPDATE: This piece has been updated to include a quote from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).

Notable conservatives tore into Facebook after a report from WIRED emerged that alleged the platform has allowed child exploitation groups to…

Joseph Vazquez | March 14, 2022

Social media influencer An0maly blasted Big Tech giants Instagram and TikTok, asking whether they worked in cahoots to silence him on their platforms.

Both Instagram and Communist Chinese app TikTok both targeted An0maly for his videos on…

Catherine Salgado | March 11, 2022

Browsing app and search engine DuckDuckGo, formerly a go-to for free speech advocates sick of Big Tech censorship, is now going to downrank sites it deems connected to “Russian disinformation.”

DuckDuckGo CEO Gabriel Weinberg tweeted, “…

Catherine Salgado | March 11, 2022

A new bill introduced by Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) could drive censorship online. Klobuchar said the NUDGE Act would help address so-called “misinformation.”

Klobuchar introduced the “Nudging Users to Drive Good Experiences on Social…

Catherine Salgado | March 11, 2022

NewsGuard co-CEO Steven Brill claimed that NewsGuard’s goal is “not to block anything,” but “just [to] give people straight information.” However, in a recent interview, he revealed NewsGuard’s real game of demonetizing anything the “credibility…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | March 9, 2022

It’s Episode 28 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how YouTube censored The Hill for reporting on the news, and censored Media Research Center for posting about the shift of national COVID-19 conversation. 

The Hill…

Alexander Hall | March 8, 2022

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas called upon his fellow justices to rethink how a 1996 law protects Big Tech companies from liability on their platforms. 

Thomas may have opened Pandora’s Box for Big Tech CEOs by calling to take…

Catherine Salgado | March 8, 2022

Live-streaming platform Twitch is reportedly instituting stricter bans on “misinformation,” including supposed COVID-19 “misinformation” according to a report from last week.

Amazon-owned Twitch is banning “'harmful misinformation…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | March 3, 2022

The infamous podcast host and mega free-speech advocate Joe Rogan interviewed former Islamist turned counter-extremism activist, Maajid Nawaz. 

Rogan, host of The Joe Rogan Experience, did a three-hour interview with author and…

Gabriela Pariseau | March 3, 2022

Twitter locked Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (R-MO) personal Twitter account for a tweet denouncing transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. 

Hartzler tweeted: “Women’s Sports are for Women, not men pretending to be women,”…

Catherine Salgado | March 3, 2022

The Media Research Center and more than 40 other conservative leaders warned governors about the left-wing bias of ratings firm NewsGuard.

The joint letter, signed by MRC founder and President Brent Bozell and dozens of other free speech…

Joseph Vazquez | March 3, 2022

UPDATE: YouTube records suggest that An0maly's video "Ron DeSantis Goes VIRAL For Telling Kids That Masks Are Optional At Press Conference" has since been restored on the platform following the controversy documented below.

Catherine Salgado | March 2, 2022

“‘Fact checking’ is just a euphemism for the Ministry of Truth. It is not about 'facts,'” journalist Kyle Becker tweeted about biased NewsGuard.

Becker News CEO Kyle Becker pointed out on Twitter that the rating site NewsGuard partners…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | March 2, 2022

It’s Episode 27 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Big Tech is blocking posts that report on the Russia/Ukraine conflict and censoring content that stands in solidarity with the Ukrainian people … all while allowing the…

Catherine Salgado | March 2, 2022

Montana’s attorney general has announced an investigation into Communist Chinese-linked social media app TikTok, including an examination of TikTok’s censorship.

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen announced an investigation on Feb.…