UPDATE: Social media companies as of Tuesday morning have reportedly announced various actions against Russia state-affiliated accounts and material. YouTube will block channels that are linked to Sputnik and RT across Europe, Reuters…
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February 28, 2022
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February 28, 2022
Over the weekend during a CPAC panel, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) slammed Big Tech dominance. A long proponent of reforming Section 230, Lankford stated reform was essential to protecting free speech.
Lankford doubled down on…
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February 28, 2022
UPDATE: TikTok removed another Reality Check with Brittany Hughes clip and then restored it a couple of hours later since the publishing of this blog. Including the most recent incident, the platform censored MRC 18 times, 15 times in 2 months…
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February 18, 2022
In the latest censorship effort to demonize self-defense tools, five Democratic Party senators are pressuring YouTube to remove “ghost gun” videos.
“Ghost guns are unserialized firearms that anyone can get their hands on—without a…
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February 18, 2022
If an establishment-challenging journalist receives a death threat, does Big Tech take the side of the victim or the victimizer? Journalist Andy Ngo said Twitter censored him with the claim that he violated the platform’s private information…
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February 16, 2022
Twitter suspended the anonymous Defiant L’s account that exposed embarrassing liberal hypocrisy.
The Defiant L’s Twitter account is known for tweeting images of ridiculous tweets from famous liberals or headlines from liberal outlets that…
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February 16, 2022
A new bipartisan Senate bill reportedly aims to give parents more control over the time that their children spend online, but Congress may face a whole new world of safety and privacy concerns with the new metaverse.
Sens. Richard…
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February 16, 2022
Free speech advocates cautioned about giving the government and university researchers exclusive authority over social media data as lawmakers expect to soon consider a proposal to force new information disclosures from Big Tech.
A…
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February 16, 2022
It’s Episode 25 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about a study that MRC’s Free Speech America team recently conducted. Results showed that from March 2020 to Feb. 2022, Big Tech censored more than 808 COVID-19-related posts.…
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February 15, 2022
A censor every hour to help liberal media tyrants keep power? If media outlet BuzzFeed gets its way, censorship could be more invasive in the metaverse even than on current social media platforms.
Meta’s (formerly Facebook’s) Horizon…
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February 14, 2022
Hackers reportedly shut down fundraising site GiveSendGo temporarily after the Canadian Freedom Convoy raised millions of dollars on the platform.
The site’s front page reportedly redirected to a mocking video from the movie Frozen…
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February 14, 2022
Facebook reportedly blocked the account of Canadian businesswoman Raechel Allan-Nicholls allegedly for being associated with the Freedom Convoy protesting draconian COVID-19 policies.
As working people fight for their most basic freedoms…
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February 11, 2022
Tuesday on SiriusXM Innovative tech entrepreneur David Sacks told Megyn Kelly during her show that “Silicon Valley turned its back on a lot of the principles that it was founded with, in terms of a free and open internet.” Now the very…
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February 11, 2022
The leftist group PatriotTakes was part of the release of a controversial video that attacked podcasting star Joe Rogan. PatriotTakes just happens to be reportedly partnered with leftist SuperPAC MeidasTouch, which was funded by actress Bette…
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February 9, 2022
Republican senators slammed President Joe Biden’s FCC nominee Gigi Sohn during her Feb. 9 Senate confirmation hearing. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and others hit her both for her bias and for a “sweetheart deal.”
“Did you disclose that…
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February 9, 2022
Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related…
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February 8, 2022
The Wall Street Journal called out American companies for sponsoring the Olympics in a country the U.S. has accused of genocide.
In an article headlined “Why the Beijing Olympics Are Awkward for Corporate Do-Gooders,” The Wall Street…
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February 8, 2022
The Heritage Foundation released a damning report blasting censorship and showing that it has jumped fully into the fight against Silicon Valley speech controls.
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts didn’t mince words about…
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February 7, 2022
Twitter permanently suspended an anti-critical race theory organization, then reinstated the account after MRC Free Speech America asked the platform for an explanation. A Twitter spokesperson told MRC Free Speech America that the account was “…
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February 7, 2022
Meta reportedly predicted that regulations covering online data could prevent the company from offering Facebook and Instagram in Europe.
Meta, the parent company of Facebook, stated in an annual report for the U.S. Securities and…
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