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Catherine Salgado | December 2, 2024

Trump named Stanford epidemiologist and staunch free speech advocate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead a major branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Trump cited Bhattacharya’s prestigious career and his role in…

Catherine Salgado | December 2, 2024

Another alleged "error" came back to bite Facebook after it censored a Republican senator's post about releasing the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs. 

Controversy has surrounded talk of an alleged list of famous people who were involved…

Gabriela Pariseau | November 19, 2024

Facebook disabled an Israeli national news outlet without a clear reason. 

Arutz Sheva reported on Nov. 10 that Facebook had suspended its page with 151,999 followers due to alleged complaints from other users. When the article was…

Catherine Salgado | November 18, 2024

President-elect Donald Trump has taken MRC’s advice and selected a free speech advocate with a record of taking on Big Tech censorship as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission in a major blow to the anti-free speech Silicon Valley…

Catherine Salgado | November 15, 2024

Following Republicans’ 2024 election victory in taking the presidency and Congress, a top House Republican is promising an end to the censorship industrial complex.

House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH), who has investigated…

Joseph Vazquez | November 15, 2024

Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr utilized Media Research Center analysis to put Big Tech and so-called media ratings firm NewsGuard on notice.

Carr sent a letter Wednesday to the respective CEOs of Google, Microsoft, Meta…

Gabriela Pariseau | November 15, 2024

Nearly two years ago, President-elect Donald Trump taped a video outlining his plan to “shatter the left-wing censorship regime” and “reclaim the right to free speech for all Americans.” But ironically, due to Big Tech censorship, many Americans…

Catherine Salgado | November 13, 2024

The Brookings Institution, an entity substantially funded by Big Tech and leftist billionaire George Soros, is whining for increased censorship in the wake of the 2024 election.

On Nov. 7, Brookings senior fellow Darrell West asserted…

Catherine Salgado | October 31, 2024

Facebook (Meta) reportedly had a secret reason for suppressing an election-altering scandal in 2020 after FBI priming: to appease then-candidate Joe Biden.

Facebook was ready and waiting to censor the New York Post’s exposé in 2020 after…

Catherine Salgado | October 30, 2024

Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) has appealed to Big Tech companies to prioritize free speech ahead of the 2024 election.

In response to Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and a group of seven Democrat lawmakers writing to tech companies to insist on…

Tom Olohan | October 25, 2024

Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) joined a chorus of leftist voices begging Big Tech to censor more aggressively, hearkening back to the days of even more aggressive content moderation. 

Warner went after X and TikTok for their lack of…

Tom Olohan | October 25, 2024

In a shocking move, the official page dedicated to Free Speech Week promoted an event devoted to a new and pernicious type of censorship: media literacy. 

Free Speech Week was founded in 2005 by The Media Institute and the National…

Gabriela Pariseau | October 24, 2024

Common sense would tell most people that it shouldn’t take two months and a committee of global progressives to figure out that Meta should allow political satire and harmless memes on its platforms. But it’s quite clear that the folks at Meta…

Tom Olohan | October 23, 2024

It’s late October in an election year and Meta is once again throttling a story that embarrasses Democrats, prompting Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr to sound the alarm on Fox Business.

Carr condemned the social media…

Tom Olohan | October 21, 2024

Just weeks away from the 2024 Presidential Election, CNN launched an absurd attack on some elected Republicans: They are willing to fight for free speech.

CNN Technology Reporter Brian Fung wrote a wildly anti-free speech article on Oct.…

Catherine Salgado | October 21, 2024

A Meta senior software engineer was reportedly caught on camera boasting about his company’s ability to manipulate elections.

Meta Senior Software Engineer Jeevan Gyawali was apparently caught on camera by James O’Keefe’s organization, O’…

Tom Olohan, Dan Schneider | October 21, 2024

For our first annual Free Speech Awards, the Media Research Center (MRC) is honoring 35 champions of the First Amendment, including five members of the U.S. Senate today, 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, 10 additional…

Catherine Salgado | October 16, 2024

Pro-free speech academics are calling on Congress to halt the “unethical” government-funded censorship experiments causing “harm” to Americans. 

Stanford Medical School professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and liber-net CEO and former…

Tom Olohan | October 14, 2024

Meta AI has exposed its pro-leftist bias on Columbus Day, following years of election interference on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook on behalf of Democrats.

The chatbot chose to bring up a leftist alternative holiday created to undermine…

Tom Olohan | October 10, 2024

Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino spoke out against pro-censorship leftists who have tried to silence him both online and in real life. 

Constantino spoke to Blaze Media CEO and podcast host Glenn Beck during the Oct. 9 edition of…