Censorship

Catherine Salgado | June 3, 2022

Three congressional lawmakers sent letters to NewsGuard and the American Federation of Teachers union. The letters cited original MRC Free Speech America research to illustrate NewsGuard’s leftist bias and the dangers of its new partnership with…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | June 1, 2022

It’s Episode 40 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Instagram, and Big Tech in general, routinely censor the Libs of TikTok social media pages. 

Libs of TikTok finds left-wing extremists’ videos and reshares them to…

Gabriela Pariseau | June 1, 2022

TikTok can’t seem to get rid of MRCTV no matter how hard it tries. The platform permanently banned, and then restored, MRCTV after placing 36 restrictions on the account. 

The Chinese Communist Party-affiliated app “permanently…

Autumn Johnson | May 31, 2022

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a Texas law that aims to prevent discriminative censorship on social media platforms.

The decision did not rule on the merits of the law but instead placed it on hold until federal courts decide…

Catherine Salgado | May 31, 2022

An advisor for the Biden administration’s Ministry of Truth once suggested that discouraging differences in opinion at the government level was a bad thing. Irony abounds!

Disinformation Governance Board (DGB) advisor Michael Chertoff…

Alexander Hall | May 31, 2022

Sen. Mike Crapo (R-ID) torched the Biden administration for creating the Disinformation Governance Board, vowing to work with fellow politicians to curb its influence. 

“Idahoans have been rightfully concerned with the Biden…

Catherine Salgado | May 26, 2022

The Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board may be paused, but it’s not yet disbanded. And President Joe Biden’s chosen consultants indicate that the board still plans to censor Americans. 

If the Biden administration’s picks for…

Catherine Salgado | May 26, 2022

The Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board, also called the Biden administration’s “Ministry of Truth,” is just the latest in a list of eight times that government has wielded tech to target Americans invasively.

Among other actions,…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | May 25, 2022

It’s Episode 39 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how TikTok censored the Media Research Center 34 times since the start of 2022. (Editors Note: As of 5/26/2022 MRCTV was notified it has been permanently banned from …

Catherine Salgado | May 25, 2022

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki proudly described her company’s censorship efforts and her pro-abortion stance during an interview at the annual World Economic Forum conference on Tuesday. Meanwhile, both she and another YouTube executive claimed that…

Alexander Hall | May 25, 2022

Even Never-Trump commentator George Will condemned President Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board, as he warned Americans to be wary of its return.

Will may be a wet blanket when it comes to the conservative movement, but he raked…

Catherine Salgado | May 24, 2022

Australian eSafety commissioner Julie Inman Grant called for a “recalibration” of “freedom of speech” online during the World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland on Monday. BusinessWorld contributing editor Pranjal Sharma also claimed…

Joseph Vazquez | May 24, 2022

Facebook and Instagram censored conservatives for their American energy independence statements even though fact-checkers disagreed on essential facts underlying the censored posts.

Fact-checker Agence France-Presse (AFP) claimed the U.S…

Brian Bradley | May 20, 2022

UPDATE: This piece has been updated to reflect that Senator Cruz provided MRC Free Speech America with a statement.

Months ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, Google leadership reportedly ignored GOP senators’ legitimate questions about…

Joseph Vazquez | May 20, 2022

Records suggest that the former darling of the Disinformation Governance Board Nina Jankowicz was one of President Joe Biden’s donors. 

Federal Election Commission records show that Jankowicz donated at least $380 to Biden’s campaign…

Joseph Vazquez | May 19, 2022

A 2020 report by a think tank funded by liberal billionaire George Soros raised questions about whether it had any hand in the creation of President Joe Biden’s “Ministry of Truth.”

The Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation…

Joseph Vazquez | May 19, 2022

The New York Times had a cow over the apparent demise of President Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board and painted it as a victim of — wait for it — disinformation.

Times “veteran” foreign and national security correspondent…

Joseph Vazquez | May 17, 2022

The Associated Press desperately tried to defend the self-proclaimed “Mary Poppins of disinformation” from her own words and ended up undercutting itself in the process.

AP put out one of its so-called “fact-checks” headlined: “Old…

Joseph Vazquez | May 16, 2022

Jennifer Daskal, one of President Joe Biden’s Disinformation Governance Board leaders, doesn’t just have several ties to liberal billionaire George Soros. She was also a Biden donor during the 2020 election cycle, according to Federal Election…

Catherine Salgado | May 13, 2022

Pro-censorship leftist individuals and news outlets used contradictions, deceptions and convoluted rhetoric in their quest to defend the Biden administration’s new Orwellian Disinformation Governance Board.

Free-speech advocates have been…