Censorship

Catherine Salgado | August 2, 2024

Former President Donald Trump says he received a call from a Big Tech CEO after he survived an assassination attempt —and even an apology following censorship of the iconic fist pump photo.

Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 1, 2024

Google is redirecting users searching for former President Donald Trump’s name toward news about Vice President Kamala Harris in what appears to be another search term switcheroo, an MRC Free Speech America search found. 

The MRC…

Luis Cornelio | July 31, 2024

Americans fed up with the federal government’s censorship scheme may soon be able to file civil lawsuits against the bureaucrats stifling their free speech online, a newly introduced bill stipulates.

The bill, named the Standing to…

Gabriela Pariseau | July 30, 2024

Trump took to Truth Social to revel in Facebook and Google getting called out for censoring search terms and an iconic image related to the attempt on his life.

“Facebook has just admitted that it wrongly censored the Trump ‘attempted…

Catherine Salgado | July 30, 2024

TikTok has been caught both censoring and spying on Americans on behalf of a hostile foreign government.

A district court legal brief revealed how TikTok was censoring content at Chinese Communist Party (CCP) behest. This comes as the U.S…

Catherine Salgado | July 27, 2024

A pro-life activist is taking advantage of an anti-censorship law in Florida to take on one of the biggest and most tyrannical of Big Tech companies.

Represented by the Thomas More Society, Trudy Perez-Poveda is suing Google and…

Catherine Salgado | July 26, 2024

A group of Democrat and Independent senators are pressuring the company that makes ChatGPT to promise the government pre-deployment access to any future model.

Pro-censorship Democrat lawmakers have found yet another angle for government-…

Tom Olohan | July 26, 2024

Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) revisited a huge Media Research Center (MRC) victory over a public-private partnership to censor publications on the right.

McCormick spoke with MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider about the…

Catherine Salgado | July 24, 2024

Nina Jankowicz just found out the hard way that in America you can call a spade a spade. The former head of the defunct government censorship board just lost her lawsuit claiming she was defamed by being labeled a “censor.”

Jankowicz sued…

Luis Cornelio | July 24, 2024

FIRST ON MRC: MRC Free Speech America has peered under the sheets to catch Google seemingly cuddling up to President Joe Biden to attack The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, just weeks before he exited the 2024 race. As always, the Media…

Catherine Salgado | July 23, 2024

Amazon-owned Twitch has finally reinstated former President Donald Trump’s account, just after he formally accepted the GOP nomination for president in 2024.

Twitch banned Trump “indefinitely” in 2021 following the Capitol protest on Jan…

Tom Olohan | July 19, 2024

Human Events Senior Editor Jack Posobiec and American Principles Project President Terry Schilling want action to protect the free speech rights of Americans on social media. 

MRC Vice President Dan Schneider spoke to Posobiec and…

Tom Olohan | July 18, 2024

EXCLUSIVE: MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider emphasized the importance of supporting platforms that support free speech while at the 2024 Republican National Convention.

Schneider spoke to Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes…

Christian Baldwin | July 17, 2024

Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, discussed the government and military's alleged role in driving censorship on social media platforms by investing in AI technology.

At the National…

Catherine Salgado | July 17, 2024

A former top federal health official has blatantly denied censorship of the COVID-19 lab leak theory.

Carrie Wolinetz, former chief of staff at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), made an astounding assertion during a July 11 Senate…

Gabriela Pariseau | July 17, 2024

As the Republican National Convention kicked off Monday, Google is continuing to bury former President Donald Trump’s campaign website while propping up his opponents.

MRC researchers searched Google using a “clean environment” (without…

Catherine Salgado | July 16, 2024

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), a staunch free speech advocate, has been announced as GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s running mate, potentially placing First Amendment issues at the forefront of the 2024 election.

“We need strong…

Luis Cornelio | July 15, 2024

Editor’s Note: MRC got the idea for its research utilizing xAI Grok from a query posted by an X account @The1Parzival. The published study omitted a hat tip.

Either Jack Dorsey's ghost still haunts X's algorithm or, alternatively, a…

Editor’s Note: MRC got the idea for its research utilizing xAI Grok from a query posted by an X account @The1Parzival. The published study omitted a hat tip.

Elon Musk has made strides to turn X (formerly Twitter) into a free speech…

Tom Olohan | July 12, 2024

Jonathan Turley, a Fox News contributor and George Washington University law professor, issued some stark warnings on the future of free speech. 

During the July 12 episode of MRC UnCensored, MRC Free Speech America Vice President…