Europe

Catherine Salgado | October 10, 2024

Meta’s leftist, anti-free speech Oversight Board has somehow managed to evolve into something worse by expanding to Europe with a new foreign appeals center to assist government crackdowns on speech.

The Oversight Board’s new Appeals…

Donald Perkins | September 24, 2024

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH)  told podcast host Shawn Ryan that a Trump-Vance administration is ready and willing to tell government censors "You’re fired!"

Vance joined Ryan for a recent sit-down conversation, during which the pair…

Catherine Salgado | September 24, 2024

Big Tech platforms X and Telegram are the latest targets of anti-free speech campaigns by governments consumed with making George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 a reality. 

After owner Elon Musk and X executives declared for weeks…

Tom Olohan | September 20, 2024

U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman went to bat for a Soros-funded, Hungarian media outlet against Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government. Pressman just happened to also have dubiously shoveled American taxpayer dollars into that outlet.…

Catherine Salgado | September 17, 2024

A European Union commissioner obsessed with crushing free speech online has suddenly resigned.

Commissioner Thierry Breton announced in a letter he posted on X Monday that he was immediately resigning after alleged personal struggles with…

Catherine Salgado | August 26, 2024

The pro-free speech CEO of Rumble and X owner Elon Musk messaged their support for protecting speech, as France arrested a fellow tech leader for refusing to increase censorship on his platform.

French authorities arrested Telegram CEO…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 12, 2024

A Washington Post journalist had the gall to ask the Biden-Harris administration what it could do to block former President Donald Trump's speech from being heard by the voting public.

Noting Trump’s scheduled interview with X owner Elon…

Catherine Salgado | July 10, 2024

A new European Union report seems to spell serious danger for the fate of free speech in Europe.

The European Union’s (EU) dystopian 2030 Digital Decade Report boasted of the EU’s work to combat alleged disinformation and urged censorship…

Catherine Salgado | May 22, 2024

The president of the European Commission is openly advertising her commitment to censoring speech as part of her re-election campaign, touting a “European Democracy Shield.”

The European Union (EU) has an anti-free speech record, and that…

Catherine Salgado | May 17, 2024

A Meta Oversight Board member recently confirmed the obvious: Meta might be an American company, but it certainly doesn't prioritize the First Amendment in its policy decisions. 

Kenji Yoshino, a New York University Constitutional…

Catherine Salgado | May 1, 2024

The European Union is the latest government entity to ponder canceling a Chinese government-tied app.

Soon after President Joe Biden signed a bill giving TikTok a choice between Chinese divestment and a ban in the U.S., European…

Gabriela Pariseau | March 22, 2024

Google doubled down on its election-related censorship operations just after MRC released a special report on Google’s election interference efforts over the past 16 years. 

MRC Free Speech America released a report finding 41…

Tom Olohan | March 15, 2024

U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman attacked the Hungarian government during a contentious speech at a Soros-funded university, just as the State Department prepares another deluge of dollars for anti-government media in Hungary. …

Tom Olohan | March 13, 2024

A Romanian Member of the European Parliament (MEP) warned against the use of artificial intelligence to create social credit scores Tuesday, promising that the European Union would ban this dystopian horror. 

MEP Dragoș Tudorache…

Catherine Salgado | February 29, 2024

Tech giant Meta has proudly unveiled its plan to control content as censorship … er, election season nears in the European Union.

Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — has a whole slate of actions planned ahead…

Catherine Salgado | February 16, 2024

Communist Chinese government-tied TikTok proudly announced its work to fact-check and crush free speech ahead of European Union elections.

TikTok patted itself on the back and claimed it is the app for “trusted and authoritative” election…

In a move that impacts European Union Parliamentary elections and provides an ominous warning for U.S. elections, Google — which also owns YouTube — is determined to make its mark on the election process.

In a Feb. 9 blog post, Google…

Catherine Salgado | February 14, 2024

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and a George Soros-funded organization are worried about a supposed lack of election censorship.

A Feb. 10 PBS segment hysterically asked, “Can social media companies safeguard the 2024 election…

Tom Olohan | February 12, 2024

The Biden administration and leftist billionaire George Soros are tied at the hip, working in cahoots to undermine Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. 

The U.S. Department of State entrusted Soros-funded Ökotárs Foundation and…

Catherine Salgado | February 6, 2024

Yet another Meta Oversight Board member has raised the alarm about so-called “bad actors” trying to undermine the electoral process — but rest assured she has the solutions to these problems: a whole of society approach to censoring speech.…