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Craig Bannister | December 13, 2024

Big Tech companies that censored and skewed content against former President Donald Trump are now trying to mend fences before the president-elect returns to the White House in January.

In moves that appear to be preemptive efforts to…

Catherine Salgado | December 6, 2024

The Heritage Foundation has warned Americans against believing that Big Tech oligarchs want substantive reform while censorship continues on.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai called President-elect Donald Trump in late November, Amazon.com owner…

Luis Cornelio | December 5, 2024

A top Meta executive admitted to what many have long affirmed: its social media platforms are stifling Americans’ free speech and then citing errors when called out.

Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg made this mea culpa-like…

Catherine Salgado | December 5, 2024

Before and after Election Day 2024, Big Tech platforms voted for election interference.

Google was the most egregious election censor, as MRC Free Speech America found the tech giant repeatedly burying right-leaning sources in search…

Tim Kilcullen | December 5, 2024

Big Tech’s censorship efforts just hit a yuuuge roadblock.

In a statement on Truth Social, incoming (and former) President Donald J. Trump announced that he will nominate competition hardliner Gail Slater to lead the Department of Justice…

Luis Cornelio | December 3, 2024

Facebook pulled the trigger by suspending—and later reinstating—the page of one of the nation’s largest gun manufacturers.

The Mark Zuckerberg-owned social media platform targeted Smith & Wesson, a firearms manufacturer in business…

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…