Research from N.C. State University indicated that Google’s anti-spam algorithm overwhelmingly labeled emails from right-wing candidates as “spam.” The paper, titled A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US…
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April 2, 2022
Google threatened to demonetize publishers for “dissent" on Ukraine. Publishers received a message from Google warning that it would not monetize content that “exploits, dismisses, or condones” the war in Ukraine.
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April 1, 2022
Google finally added a mention of Donald Trump’s presidency to his “about” section on the search results page. The change came months after MRC Free Speech America exclusively reported that former President Donald Trump was one of only two U.S.…
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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 prevented…
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March 28, 2022
Former Google CEO and tech billionaire Eric Schmidt was reportedly involved with Biden’s White House science office in a way that raises serious ethical concerns. Politico reported that former Google CEO and leftist billionaire Schmidt even…
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March 23, 2022
The Department of Justice requested that Google be sanctioned in an ongoing antitrust lawsuit. The basis of the suit was surrounded by the argument that Google was a monopoly. Reclaim The Net reported that the DOJ alleged in a pleading that…
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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.
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March 18, 2022
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt called for Big Tech to get more involved with national security, drawing backlash from Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL). Schmidt has reportedly been tied to the defense industry for years, including through Obama’s…
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March 4, 2022
If tech giant Google succeeds in a new project, devices will not even need cameras to track a user’s every movement.
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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.
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January 31, 2022
The “Big Four” tech companies – Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple – spent more than $55 million lobbying the federal government in 2021 to stave off antitrust legislation. That’s a $21 million increase over 2020.
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January 25, 2022
U.S. citizens are more distrusting of the information they get from search engines than are those of any other nation surveyed in Edelman's 22nd annual global Trust Barometer.
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January 21, 2022
Google reportedly increased its U.S. lobbying spending by 27 percent in 2021, as lawmakers began a push to enact new tech legislation to regulate the industry.
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January 18, 2022
A lawsuit filed by 16 states and one territory alleged Google and Facebook negotiated an underhanded agreement to rig online advertising in their favor.
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January 18, 2022
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 “…
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January 17, 2022
A meteorologist known for smacking down the sensationalism of eco-fanatics said his website was demonetized by censorship giant Google. University of Alabama, Huntsville Principal Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer posted a blog on his…
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January 14, 2022
Ethics watchdog and shareholder for Google’s parent corporation Alphabet, The National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC) demanded Google cough up its records of banning content on behalf of the Biden administration.
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January 12, 2022
President Joe Biden’s new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief of Staff Kristie Canegallo has a politically leftist, pro-censorship history that should raise concerns for free speech advocates.
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January 7, 2022
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.”
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January 4, 2022
Tech giants Google and Amazon are reportedly calling on the local governments and small businesses to speak with lawmakers on their behalf.
