Censorship

Catherine Salgado | December 8, 2021

Snap CTO Bobby Murphy is the latest tech executive who announced he is all in on augmented reality (AR), which is a key piece in how some envision the metaverse. Murphy said Snap is developing its own AR Spectacles and hoping to have applications…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | December 8, 2021

It’s Episode Fifteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, Big Tech showed their desire to protect the leftist narrative at all costs — even if that means censoring information that could benefit public health. …

Gabriela Pariseau | December 8, 2021

MRC’s CensorTrack found 100 examples of Big Tech censoring content and users who affirm only two genders or recognize biological gender differences over the last 11 months. That’s an average of about two censorship incidents a week.

The…

Catherine Salgado | December 7, 2021

Apparently history is too dangerous to teach children. YouTube has censored a Young America’s Foundation (YAF) video about “Victims of Socialism,” restricting the video on the grounds that it is not “suitable” for kids.

YAF said it was…

Catherine Salgado | December 6, 2021

“As it turns out, remembering the politically inconvenient is a risky thing. To help others to remember is even more dangerous.” Leftist WIRED published these words as part of a report on Chinese online censorship. The irony is that WIRED…

Autumn Johnson | December 4, 2021

In a scathing Twitter thread, the editor of The Daily Caller slammed Big Tech social media platforms for continuing to favor leftist viewpoints online. 

Geoffrey Ingersoll, The Caller's editor-in-chief, tweeted no…

Catherine Salgado | December 3, 2021

You might say Twitter had a heart attack after the American Heart Association (AHA) published a study abstract about the dangers of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. Twitter reportedly attached an “unsafe” label to an American Heart Association link.…

Craig Bannister | December 3, 2021

“Big Tech has become the censorship arm of the Democratic Party,” Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared Thursday, pointing to Congressional testimony citing Media Research Center (MRC) studies proving his point.

Giant social…

Joseph Vazquez | December 3, 2021

The leftist firm NewsGuard is going from skewing its rating system to favor left-wing websites to monitoring cable and broadcast TV news in an apparent attempt to become the new ministry of truth.

A press release revealed that NewsGuard…

Catherine Salgado | December 2, 2021

A government-controlled news outlet threatens another country with becoming “cannon fodder.” A ruler hurls insults at another nation and demands that allies sever all ties with that nation. A government official accuses another country of…

Catherine Salgado | December 1, 2021

The Heritage Foundation technology policy research fellow Kara Frederick in congressional hearing testimony cited Media Research Center ground-breaking analysis on the political impacts of Big Tech’s censorship, including how Big Tech stole the…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | December 1, 2021

It’s Episode Fourteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about satire sites, funny memes and tweeting jokes … all of which Big Tech censored.

The Babylon Bee is a satirical news site whose slogan is “…

Catherine Salgado | December 1, 2021

The Walt Disney Co. is seeing red. Streaming platform Disney+ in Hong Kong reportedly removed an episode of The Simpsons that mocked Chinese propaganda about the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre.

Disney+ launched Nov. 16 in Hong Kong,…

Catherine Salgado | November 30, 2021

If Gigi Sohn is confirmed to the FCC, it might stand for Federal Censorship Commission instead of Federal Communications Commission. Biden’s FCC commissioner nominee Gigi Sohn has an extensive history of support for anti-conservative censorship…

Craig Bannister | November 30, 2021

Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal has said that the social media platform’s content censorship should not be restricted by the First Amendment and that Twitter should “focus less on thinking about free speech.”

In a Nov. 18, 2020 interview…

Catherine Salgado | November 29, 2021

A win for free speech! The Colombian Supreme Court just ruled in favor of popular YouTuber Erika “Kika” Nieto, who came under fire after defending traditional marriage in a video online.

Nieto, who has over 7 million YouTube followers,…

Catherine Salgado | November 24, 2021

TIME magazine may need to take some time off after defending a censorship advocate. Leftist activist turned Facebook “whistleblower” Frances Haugen has become internationally famous for allegedly taking on Big Tech, and calling for more…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | November 24, 2021

It’s Episode Thirteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about how Big Tech is censoring users who stand with Rittenhouse, sympathize with him, or support the verdict. 

In 2020, during an anti-…

Catherine Salgado | November 23, 2021

Conservative Partnership Institute Senior ­Director of Policy Rachel Bovard slammed Big Tech censorship of free speech in a New York Post op-ed, on Monday. “Speech, as such, is no longer allowed on the [Big Tech] platforms. Just correct speech,”…

Catherine Salgado | November 22, 2021

“I’ve now received so many death threats I could paper the house with them, and I haven’t stopped speaking out,” Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling said. The renowned author said she has been doxxed on Twitter for not agreeing with the left’s…