Europe

Tom Olohan | February 3, 2025

While the European Union (EU) is infamous for its contempt for free speech, it may have sunk to a new low by reportedly going after a religious app.

Tom Olohan | January 27, 2025

A host of major social media platforms made a disturbing capitulation to European Union censors. 

Tom Olohan | January 23, 2025

President Donald Trump did not just defend free speech while addressing elites at Davos's World Economic Forum elites on Thursday. He also threw down the gauntlet.

Tom Olohan | January 14, 2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg surprisingly opened up to podcast host Joe Rogan about the massive pressure the Biden administration and global governments put on Big Tech companies to censor speech. Zuckerberg is now calling for action.

Tom Olohan | January 10, 2025

X owner Elon Musk took a strong stand against censorship during an interview with a German political candidate. Here’s what she told him about the dystopian reality of free speech in the European Union (EU). 

Tom Olohan | January 6, 2025

The director of an organization funded by leftist billionaire George Soros joined a chorus of voices calling for censorship and more regulation of X after the platform’s owner Elon Musk weighed in on migrant violence in Germany. 

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.

Donald Perkins | September 24, 2024

Senator 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!’ 

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.

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.

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.

Gabriela Pariseau | August 12, 2024

A Washington Post journalist, Cleve Wootson, pressed the Biden-Harris administration on how they could block former President Donald Trump's speech, especially due to concerns about potential "misinformation" in Trump's upcoming interview with…

Catherine Salgado | July 10, 2024

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

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.”

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.

Catherine Salgado | May 1, 2024

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

Gabriela Pariseau | March 22, 2024

Google continues its efforts to control online information and counter "misinformation", according to a blog post from MRC Free Speech America. Google is funding the Elections24Check project, aiming to use a database of articles for fact-checking…

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.

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.