Mike Lee

Catherine Salgado | April 7, 2025

A new bombshell from the House Judiciary Committee exposed the FBI’s extreme effort to promote censorship of the Hunter Biden scandal and manipulate the 2020 election.

Gabriela Pariseau | March 26, 2025

Democrats' witness at a Senate Judiciary hearing on free speech, Mary Anne Franks, defended the government's role in supporting organizations that censor Americans, claiming these efforts reflect its own free speech rights. This stance disturbed…

Catherine Salgado | March 21, 2025

America First Legal (AFL) released documents reportedly showing coordination between the U.S. and U.K. governments and biased private entities to suppress online free speech.

Tom Olohan, Michael Morris | November 13, 2024

Sen. John Thune (R-SD) ultimately was elected to lead Republicans as they took a majority in the Senate following the 2024 election red wave. But what transpired before today’s leadership vote surrounding free speech and censorship contextualizes…

Tom Olohan, Dan Schneider | October 21, 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 today, 10 members of the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, 10 additional…

Tim Kilcullen | October 15, 2024

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) has come out against a sweeping censorship bill which could imperil the future of free speech on the internet.

Catherine Salgado | June 28, 2024

GOP congressmen are taking action to protect speech after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to halt government censorship collusion with Big Tech.

Joseph Vazquez | May 26, 2023

Targeted groups and individuals were fired up over MRC Free Speech America’s bombshell report exposing President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security for weaponizing tax dollars against Americans.

Gabriela Pariseau | March 1, 2023

Twitter suspended Senator Mike Lee’s (R-UT) personal account with “no explanation” Wednesday. “My personal Twitter account –@BasedMikeLee– has been suspended. Twitter did not alert me ahead of time, nor have they yet offered an explanation for…

Paiten Iselin | January 13, 2023

Elon Musk’s release of the Twitter Files exposed Twitter’s bloated censorship apparatus and pervasive collusion with federal government agencies. But those documents are just the tip of the censorship iceberg.

Brian Bradley | November 2, 2022

Google is burying the campaign websites of its fiercest critics on Capitol Hill. 

Brian Bradley | September 23, 2022

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday passed a Big Media “cartel” bill that would protect certain news outlets that band together to negotiate payment terms with tech platforms from antitrust enforcement.

Gabriela Pariseau | May 20, 2022

Republican lawmakers called for the Senate to defund the Department of Homeland Security’s Disinformation Governance Board

Alexander Hall | February 2, 2022

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) torched the news media for being a “source of misinformation” as senators discussed a proposal to allow news outlets to coordinate ad negotiations with Big Tech. MRC Vice President of Free Speech America and Business Dan…

Alexander Hall | September 28, 2021

It’s as if Big Tech has not already been censoring enough. Now the Biden administration is pushing platforms in an even more censorious direction. COVID-19, like many national crises, has been used to push for more government tyranny. White…

Kayla Sargent | June 29, 2021

Conservative lawmakers appeared ready and willing for a fight to protect free speech from Big Tech’s tyrannical grip at an event hosted to feature solutions. The Ethics & Public Policy Center held a Big Tech Symposium that allowed politicians…

Kayla Sargent | January 29, 2021

Twitter slapped warning labels on tweets questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election all day long. But if a Democrat congressman falsely accuses a conservative senator of attempted murder, the platform turns a blind eye. A sitting…

Alexander Hall | December 21, 2020

Big Tech has eviscerated free speech on social media. There have been at least 25 famous, well-documented examples of when Big Tech companies censored conservatives, allegedly by mistake since August 7. 2018.

Kayla Sargent | November 17, 2020

Senate Republicans were not taking any excuses about censorship of conservatives from two Big Tech CEOs who appeared before the Senate once again. The Nov. 17 hearing, entitled “Breaking the News: Censorship, Suppression, and the 2020 Election,”…

Alexander Hall | November 17, 2020

On Tuesday, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) raked Facebook and Twitter over the coals at a hearing for having a history of “mistakes” that overwhelmingly appear to target conservatives.