Censorship

Joseph Vazquez | March 24, 2022

Twitter mashed its SHUT UP button on Christian satire site The Babylon Bee.

Twitter’s latest episode in its ongoing campaign to silence The Bee involved reportedly locking its founder Adam Ford out of his account for simply trolling the…

Catherine Salgado | March 24, 2022

To lobby, or not to lobby? That’s no longer a question for pro-censorship Twitter. A group of tech companies, including Twitter, are looking to push their policy objectives. Pro-censorship Twitter and Vimeo are among five companies forming the “…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | March 23, 2022

It’s Episode 30 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Facebook censored Heritage Action’s video compilation of President Joe Biden praising his anti-American energy plan. 

On March 10, Heritage Action, a grassroots…

Brian Bradley | March 22, 2022

Conservatives should pare down the several pending Big Tech reform bills into one or two pieces of legislation that can garner broad support if/when Republicans win control of Congress.

That’s according to American Principles Project (APP…

Catherine Salgado | March 22, 2022

The Media Research Center (MRC) is proud to announce the addition of a new partner to the Free Speech Alliance, The Heritage Foundation. “Big Tech is an enemy of the American people,” Heritage President Kevin Roberts said in a press release.…

Joseph Vazquez | March 22, 2022

Internet traffic cop NewsGuard outed itself as a pathetic joke by giving perfect grades to outlets that tried to quash the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Left-wing news organizations Politico, The Washington Post, Axios and USA Today all…

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…