The January 6 House Select Committee made a dangerous attack against free speech online. It issued subpoenas to four major Big Tech companies — in the name of stopping “extremism.”
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January 7, 2022
As Congress proposes more tech-regulating bills, the head of the Internet Accountability Project said Big Tech platforms’ “unchallenged growth is a threat to the conservative movement.”
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January 6, 2022
Hysteria proclaiming Jan. 6, 2021, as a MAGA-fueled “insurrection” against “democracy” is strong as ever one year later. Government agencies, a university and nonprofits are all coming together to develop supposed “political violence”-predicting…
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December 30, 2021
Facebook has done everything since “whistleblower” Frances Haugen’s revelations except apologize. The company changed its name, denied massive problems, and reportedly even sold different narratives to politicians from different ends of the…
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December 29, 2021
Lawmakers from both parties want President Joe Biden to get involved in new tech legislation leading up to the 2022 election. This is a dangerous move for free speech, as Biden’s administration has explicitly supported increased censorship online…
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December 20, 2021
A group of congressmen have sent a letter to new pro-censorship Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, urging the new CEO to address Twitter’s history of biased censorship and make the platform more pro-free speech.
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December 16, 2021
Democrats and race hustler organizations are reportedly pushing for "racial equity audits" to bend Big Tech companies to their will.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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November 9, 2021
Congress and Big Tech are still battling it out over which will have more control over the online speech of Americans. A new bipartisan congressional bill would allow users to experience social media without the algorithms.
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November 3, 2021
It’s Episode Ten of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about how Big Tech favors the left even when it comes to individual opinions, this time regarding trans and traditional family ideologies.
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October 28, 2021
“Who is going to be the unbiased arbiter of truth? I don’t think it exists,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) said, challenging the leftist narrative pushing for greater censorship of online speech.
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October 13, 2021
It’s Episode Seven of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about the Free Speech America study which reported that Big Tech censors GOP congressmen by 54 to 1 more than Democrats.
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September 1, 2021
It’s Week One of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about Shana Chappell whose heroic son was killed in Afghanistan on August 26th. Her heartfelt lament on Instagram regarding her son’s death granted her a…
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June 29, 2021
Conservative lawmakers appeared ready and willing for a fight to protect free speech from Big Tech’s tyrannical grip at an event hosted to feature solutions. The Ethics & Public Policy Center held a Big Tech Symposium that allowed politicians…
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April 12, 2021
Big Tech companies often try to get away with practices like censorship that harm consumers, but one United States senator has a plan to fight back. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has introduced the “Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First…
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March 30, 2021
A former Big Tech employee has started a new liberal advocacy group, and he has not attempted to even hide his organization’s overt leftist bias. Former Google policy lead Adam Kovacevich founded the ridiculously named Chamber of Progress, a…
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March 25, 2021
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joined with other Big Tech leaders in a House hearing to discuss “disinformation” and seemingly brag about censorship. The Facebook head also used his opening statement to brazenly attack former President Donald Trump…
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March 23, 2021
Congress, once again, has the chance to grill Big Tech CEOs about their censorship of conservatives , but whether members will actually take advantage of this opportunity is questionable at best. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO…
