Censorship

Catherine Salgado | June 13, 2025

Social media companies aggressively censored doctors critical of the COVID-19 vaccines and lockdowns. Now, the joke is on Big Tech as two of those doctors will help advise the Trump administration on vaccine policies.

Tom Olohan | June 12, 2025

France reportedly arrested a Big Tech CEO, took his phone, detained him for days and continues to restrict his travel. Here’s what he told independent journalist Tucker Carlson about the European Union’s crackdown on online speech.

Catherine Salgado | June 12, 2025

A new European Union strategy not only threatens free speech, but it could bring about an even worse crackdown.

Luis Cornelio | June 12, 2025

O say, can you see… that the American flag is now “controversial” because it’s tied to conservatives? That’s the latest take from Gemini, Google’s notoriously anti-American AI chatbot.

 

YouTube claimed it's slowing down the censorship train, while also touting an increase in certain types of removed content.

Tom Olohan | June 11, 2025

The Biden-era State Department promoted censorship in Brazil, according to documents highlighted by former State Department official and free speech advocate Mike Benz.

Catherine Salgado | June 10, 2025

A Canadian free speech advocate who has faced arrest in multiple countries came to the United States and praised the Trump administration’s stance against censorship.

Michael Morris | June 10, 2025

Over and over again, the prominent artificial intelligence concern discussed, from industry leaders to Trump administration officials and across the liberal media landscape, is how the burgeoning technology will impact jobs. And while the winds…

Catherine Salgado | June 9, 2025

While protections for free speech have begun to improve this year, Big Tech censorship has not let up, with Americans still finding themselves issuing “mayday” alerts as they were silenced or stuck in social media jail during May.

Catherine Salgado | June 6, 2025

A federal program that caused scandal and controversy by targeting political dissidents is now history.

Catherine Salgado | June 6, 2025

One of the most popular right-leaning satire sites is taking on a state law that potentially criminalizes humor and political memes shared on social media.

Tom Olohan | June 5, 2025

A massive American financial institution publicly renounced debanking customers for their political views.

Catherine Salgado | June 5, 2025

About a third of the employees at one of the most infamous anti-free speech federal agencies have left since President Donald Trump took office, according to a new report.

The Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek, popular since its debut, erases data pertaining to sensitive topics disapproved by the Chinese government, including Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, Jimmy Lai, and Uyghur rights. Despite initially processing encoded…

Catherine Salgado | June 4, 2025

Tech giant Google is scrambling to respond amid federal litigation as scrutiny over its search engine monopoly increasingly takes center stage.

Catherine Salgado | June 3, 2025

CBS News’s 60 Minutes platformed a famous author’s stunning claim that America’s political right is anti-free speech like the political left, but MRC has the evidence to prove heavy leftist censorship bias.

 

Catherine Salgado | June 2, 2025

A Texas bill that threatened free speech has failed to move ahead in the state legislature.

Tom Olohan | June 2, 2025

The Trump administration is coming after foreign government officials who pressure Big Tech platforms to censor Americans—and Brazil might be their first target.

Even as Meta seeks congratulations on free speech reforms amid federal scrutiny, the company tacitly admitted on Thursday that censorship is not over on its platforms.

 

The State Department is on the warpath against online censorship, and Republican lawmakers are rallying to the cause.