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Joseph Vazquez | April 7, 2022

It seems like terrible public relations for Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to publicly refer to himself as the Dark Lord of Mordor while running one of the internet’s largest censorship operations.

Zuckerberg joined The Tim Ferriss Show on…

Joseph Vazquez | April 1, 2022

Big Tech censors: We know what we’re doing. Their algorithms: April Fools! It’s a tall task for Big Tech companies to justify mashing the censorship button on conservative speech when the systems they use to do their dirty work are so stupid that…

Autumn Johnson | March 30, 2022

Big Tech faced yet another blow from the Department of Justice.

Originally reported by The Wall Street Journal, the DOJ sent letters to members of the congressional judiciary committees and asked them to support an antitrust bill that…

NB Staff | March 29, 2022

In a Tuesday appearance on the Fox Business Network’s The Evening Edit, Media Research Center President Brent Bozell called out the liberal Big Tech companies and media for their “censorship” of the Hunter Biden laptop story that has recently…

Catherine Salgado | March 29, 2022

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube allow seven dictators, including Russian President Vladimir Putin, unfettered access to post on their platforms, influencing approximately 50 million followers as of March 28. Meanwhile, former leader of the free…

Craig Bannister | March 28, 2022

Recalling White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki’s revelation that the Biden Administration is working with Big Tech social media platforms to limit free speech, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) warned Friday of the threat to Americans’ First Amendment…

Joseph Vazquez | March 28, 2022

So-called fact-checkers should be eating crow following authentication of the emails from Hunter Biden’s notorious laptop by The New York Times. But a new analysis shows they’re being as brazen as ever by not updating old articles challenging the…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | March 23, 2022

It’s Episode 30 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Facebook censored Heritage Action’s video compilation of President Joe Biden praising his anti-American energy plan. 

On March 10, Heritage Action, a grassroots…

Joseph Vazquez | March 21, 2022

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database reached an important milestone as it continues to monitor the war Big Tech companies have waged on free speech online.

CensorTrack has now surpassed 3,500 total censorship cases documented by…

Autumn Johnson | March 20, 2022

The chief executive of a megafund dedicated to health care workers attacked Facebook for allowing “misinformation.”

Debby Blakey is chief executive of HESTA, a megafund worth $68 billion.

Blakey called for more regulation of the…

Alexander Hall | March 17, 2022

Big Tech censorship went from targeting statements of former President Donald Trump to targeting quotes of current President Biden’s embarrassing statements. Heritage Action was their latest target.

Is quoting the president’s own words a…

Catherine Salgado | March 15, 2022

UPDATE: This piece has been updated to include a quote from Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN).

Notable conservatives tore into Facebook after a report from WIRED emerged that alleged the platform has allowed child exploitation groups to…

Joseph Vazquez | March 14, 2022

Social media influencer An0maly blasted Big Tech giants Instagram and TikTok, asking whether they worked in cahoots to silence him on their platforms.

Both Instagram and Communist Chinese app TikTok both targeted An0maly for his videos on…

Autumn Johnson | March 13, 2022

Researcher Lara Putnam alleged that Facebook has a problem with “child predation.”

Putnam, a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh, was working on a project about “disinformation” when she said she discovered some concerning…

Catherine Salgado | March 1, 2022

DirecTV dropped Russian propaganda outlet RT America on Tuesday as a belated response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. DirecTV absurdly refused to renew One America News Network earlier this year while RT’s programming was only suspended…

Catherine Salgado | February 28, 2022

UPDATE: Social media companies as of Tuesday morning have reportedly announced various actions against Russia state-affiliated accounts and material. YouTube will block channels that are linked to Sputnik and RT across Europe, Reuters…

Joseph Vazquez | February 25, 2022

UPDATE: The White House released a readout Feb. 25 confirming that its meeting on combatting climate change denial had in fact taken place.

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The leftist U.K.-based Center for Countering…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | February 16, 2022

It’s Episode 25 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about a study that MRC’s Free Speech America team recently conducted. Results showed that from March 2020 to Feb. 2022, Big Tech censored more than 808 COVID-19-related posts.…

Catherine Salgado | February 15, 2022

A censor every hour to help liberal media tyrants keep power? If media outlet BuzzFeed gets its way, censorship could be more invasive in the metaverse even than on current social media platforms.

Meta’s (formerly Facebook’s) Horizon…

Craig Bannister | February 15, 2022

On Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that he has sued Facebook (now known as Meta) for illegally capturing and using the biometric data of millions of Texans and failing to destroy the collected data in a reasonable period of…