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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…

Alexander Hall | February 14, 2022

Facebook reportedly blocked the account of Canadian businesswoman Raechel Allan-Nicholls allegedly for being associated with the Freedom Convoy protesting draconian COVID-19 policies.

As working people fight for their most basic freedoms…

Alexander Hall | February 9, 2022

Revealing the home address of public figures has become a predatory tactic among hostile political activist groups.

The Meta Oversight Board demanded that Meta-owned Facebook strengthen its policies against the sharing of private citizens…

Joseph Vazquez, Gabriela Pariseau | February 9, 2022

Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related…

Joseph Vazquez | February 8, 2022

The Heritage Foundation released a damning report blasting censorship and showing that it has jumped fully into the fight against Silicon Valley speech controls. 

Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts didn’t mince words about…

Catherine Salgado | February 7, 2022

Meta reportedly predicted that regulations covering online data could prevent the company from offering Facebook and Instagram in Europe.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook, stated in an annual report for the U.S. Securities and…

Catherine Salgado | February 3, 2022

Facebook ousted a populist group of U.S. truckers protesting COVID-19 mandates despite calling itself a “democratic” platform. 

Facebook “VP of AR/VR” (augmented reality/virtual reality) Andrew Bosworth recently called his platform a…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | February 2, 2022

It’s Episode Twenty-Three of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how when Big Tech censors the speech of prominent figures, they’re censoring you, too.

Big Tech is controlled by the left which causes…