Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday that Big Tech censorship is the “single greatest threat” to “free speech” and “fair elections” in America. Cruz also called for legislation specifically targeting Big Tech’s biased…
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer decides what bills come up for a Senate vote. But with Schumer’s daughters employed by Facebook and Amazon, antitrust legislation may go the way of President Joe Biden’s popularity: down into oblivion.
The new Tech Oversight Project reportedly aims to pressure lawmakers to pass competition regulation for tech companies. The project is funded by liberal billionaire Pierre Omidyar and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, however, and headed by a “…
In an article last February headlined “Do Facebook, Twitter and YouTube censor conservatives? Claims 'not supported by the facts,' new research says,” USA Today's Jessica Guynn wrote, “Despite repeated charges of anti-conservative bias from…
Dr. Ron Paul said that he has been suspended from Facebook for 90 days. Paul is a former congressman from Texas. The offending post was about the efficacy of the Pfizer vaccine and comments from the CEO of the company.
The January 6 House Select Committee made a dangerous attack against free speech online. It issued subpoenas to four major Big Tech companies — in the name of stopping “extremism.”
It’s Episode Twenty of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Big Tech thinks they know better than licensed professionals when it comes to COVID-19 vaccines.
Conservative groups expressed doubt that the Facebook Oversight Board will direct the platform to stop its censorship in reaction to any critical comments it receives about a program that gives prominent users preferential treatment.
Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI) director of policy Rachel Bovard called out social media platforms on Twitter for their censorship of alleged COVID-19 “misinformation,” pointing to needed action now that the U.S. Centers for Disease…
While a slim majority of Americans still want social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to allow unrestricted free speech on their platforms, a solid majority of Democrats want the platforms to regulate content that might offend “some…
As Congress proposes more tech-regulating bills, the head of the Internet Accountability Project said Big Tech platforms’ “unchallenged growth is a threat to the conservative movement.”
When conservative columnist Bethany Mandel realized she’d been locked out of her publishing company’s Facebook account, she thought surely it had been a mistake.
It’s Episode Nineteen of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we gave a recap of some of the worst Big Tech censorship cases of 2021. To start, former president Donald Trump was censored 625 times throughout his…
Americans may already be worried about the overall competency of the medical field post-COVID-19, but now medical professionals are reportedly increasingly using virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) to train their colleagues. Not only…
Facebook faced a firestorm of controversy after it punished a children's book publication company, Heroes Of Liberty. It has since reversed the ban, but prominent critics have questions. Facebook hasn’t been transparent about its approach to free…
On Monday, Facebook has temporarily suspended Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a day after her personal Twitter account was permanently suspended "for repeated violations of [Twitter’s] COVID-19 misinformation policy." …
Heroes of Liberty editor Bethany S. Mandel said that Facebook banned the line of children's books she edits, which capture the lives of historical American leaders. Mandel stated that Facebook designated Heroes of Liberty books about the…
Facebook has done everything since “whistleblower” Frances Haugen’s revelations except apologize. The company changed its name, denied massive problems, and reportedly even sold different narratives to politicians from different ends of the…
Both Meta social media platforms — Facebook and Instagram — blocked a quote this week from Founding Father Thomas Paine advocating free speech.
Now anti-baby-murder ads are “misinformation,” according to the radical left. Pro-abortion groups claimed that tech giants aren’t favoring their baby killing propaganda ads highly enough. The groups are also outraged that any pro-life ads are…