Censorship

Catherine Salgado | December 17, 2021

Changes to file sharing in Google Drive could open a whole new censorship channel, essentially establishing that users do not have rights to their own files if Google disapproves of content.

Joseph Vazquez | December 16, 2021

The censorship overlords at YouTube have apparently continued their digital war with comedian and political commentator Steven Crowder. Crowder posted a purported snapshot of a notice from the liberal streaming platform informing him that it…

Gabriela Pariseau | December 16, 2021

Fox News contributor and radio host Dan Bongino told Fox News media contributor Sean Duffy that there’s a “real” and “huge” market for online free speech platforms.

Alexander Hall | December 16, 2021

Democrats and race hustler organizations are reportedly pushing for "racial equity audits" to bend Big Tech companies to their will.

Catherine Salgado | December 16, 2021

Big Tech giant Google has reportedly threatened to fire any employees who do not comply with the company’s anti-freedom COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Brian Bradley | December 15, 2021

Five strikes and you’re permanently banned. So sayeth the Twitter monarchs, who discreetly promulgated a new policy to muzzle users who spread so-called COVID-19 “misinformation.”

Alexander Hall | December 15, 2021

Censorship is bad, but the irony is rich when a liberal gaming outlet like Kotaku called gaming streamer Hasan Piker’s ban from Twitch for using the term “cracker” a “bizarre moderation decision.”

Catherine Salgado | December 15, 2021

YouTube is not only censoring conservatives, but recently, it has reportedly become a platform for something perhaps just as sinister: Western influencers who paint positive pictures of Communist China, even repeating Chinese propaganda along the…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | December 15, 2021

It’s Episode Sixteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about how Big Tech censored a video lecture about the evils of socialism.

Autumn Johnson | December 14, 2021

On Tuesday, the video platform Rumble announced that it was terminating its business relationships with the Unruly Group and Tremor International over its censorship of Fox News, podcast, and radio talk show host Dan Bongino.

Catherine Salgado | December 13, 2021

Veteran Facebook executive Andrew Bosworth told Axios, “If your democracy can’t tolerate the speech of people, I’m not sure what kind of democracy it is … [Facebook is] a fundamentally democratic technology.” This is paradoxical considering how…

Joseph Vazquez | December 13, 2021

A new analysis reveals the extraordinary left-wing bias of website ratings firm NewsGuard, which should concern every American given that it is expanding its reach into cable and broadcast TV news. Liberal outlets were rated 27 points higher on…

Catherine Salgado | December 10, 2021

Meta is doubling down on its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to detect alleged “harmful content,” even though AI algorithms have been shown to be biased or error-prone in censoring content.

Brian Bradley | December 10, 2021

A leftist figurehead blatantly told lawmakers on Thursday that social media companies should treat woke elites and ordinary people differently. Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt said social media companies should sanitize their…

Craig Bannister | December 9, 2021

Twenty-four members of Congress are urging Google to stop its suppression of pro-life voices and reinstate Live Action’s life-saving advertisements promoting a method of abortion-pill reversal.

Catherine Salgado | December 9, 2021

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) repeatedly praised U.K. regulation of social media platforms and called for the U.S. to adopt the U.K. model at a Dec. 8 Senate hearing on Instagram. Both the U.K. government and Blumenthal tend to support…

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.

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.