Ken Paxton

Donald Perkins, Dan Schneider | October 23, 2024

For our first annual Free Speech Awards, the Media Research Center (MRC) is honoring 35 champions of the First Amendment, including five members of the U.S. Senate (announced Monday), and 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives (announced…

Controversial leftist billionaire George Soros and his son Alex have worked tirelessly to undermine law and order in America. The Media Research Center has obtained thousands of never-before-seen internal communications from dozens of Soros…

Craig Bannister | July 30, 2024

On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton won a record $1.4 billion settlement from Meta (f/k/a Facebook), in a final judgement against the Big Tech behemoth, which had captured biometric data from millions of Texans without their informed…

MRC Staff | June 12, 2024

On what could be the eve of the Supreme Court deciding multiple First Amendment cases that will shape the future of our republic, MRC Free Speech America warns of the consequences of the justices perverting the Constitution.   …

Tom Olohan | February 26, 2024

NetChoice Attorney Paul Clement and U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar both made stunning admissions during oral arguments for landmark free speech cases. 

On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard two landmark cases — Moody v…

Tom Olohan | February 26, 2024

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider laid bare the hypocrisy of Big Tech companies censoring conservatives while relying on expansive liability protections under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. 

Autumn Johnson | December 10, 2023

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing the United States State Department for conspiring to silence conservative media publications.

Paxton — a co-plaintiff in the lawsuit along with The Daily Wire and The Federalist — proclaimed that…

Catherine Salgado | September 29, 2023

Yelp is reportedly discriminating against pro-life pregnancy centers on its website and app.

Crisis pregnancy resource centers specifically exist to help pregnant women and their babies, but Yelp appears to have jumped on the bandwagon of…

Luis Cornelio | April 7, 2023

Leftist Big Tech giant Google’s attempt to get off scot-free over its alleged misuse of Texas consumers' data proved unsuccessful.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) celebrated a victory Thursday in its legal fight…

Autumn Johnson | October 20, 2022

Google is once again accused of manipulating users and their data for the company’s own gain.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged in a lawsuit Thursday that Google collected biometric data without user consent. A press release from…

Autumn Johnson | September 18, 2022

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld Texas's “free speech” law on Friday, which would prevent social media companies from censoring certain viewpoints online.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said that the ruling was a…

Autumn Johnson | June 12, 2022

Journalists at The New York Times criticized Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s efforts to push back against online censorship.

The paper published an article in the technology section that accused Paxton of standing up against…

Autumn Johnson | June 7, 2022

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation into the number of bot accounts on Twitter.

According to FOX Business, Paxton’s office issued a Civil Investigative Demand (CID) to investigate whether Twitter’s reporting on the…

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…

NB Staff | March 10, 2021

State attorneys general Ken Paxton, Lynn Fitch, and Leslie Rutledge all supported using consumer protection laws to fight Big Tech. The three offered their comments in a special Zoom call organized by the Media Research Center.

“The idea…

Kayla Sargent | March 9, 2021

Twitter, ever the hypocritical platform, appears to have taken on the facade that it cares about free speech in a lawsuit against Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton. 

Twitter has filed a lawsuit against Texas Attorney General…

Kayla Sargent | January 19, 2021

Google is facing three separate antitrust lawsuits from the Department of Justice and  two different state coalitions. One month after the Texas v. Google lawsuit was filed, Google finally decided to respond to the allegations. 

Kayla Sargent | January 14, 2021

Despite Big Tech’s efforts to silence conservatives on Parler, one state’s Attorney General will not stand for it. 

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has demanded answers from several Big Tech companies about the suppression…

Alexander Hall | September 15, 2020

Google appears to be in for a reckoning as a bipartisan alliance of states has joined to target the Big Tech platform for antitrust.

“About a dozen states, mostly led by Republicans, are expected to join the Justice Department’s upcoming…

Alexander Hall | May 18, 2020

The U.S. Justice Department and state attorneys general may file antitrust lawsuits against search giant Google, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Attorney General William Barr, according to The Journal May 15, sees this probe against…