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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…

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…

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.

Johnson slammed the Senate version of the Kids Online Safety Act (“KOSA”) as “very…

The Salt Lake Tribune is throwing a fit over the U.S. Supreme Court stripping the ungodly regulatory power of unelected bureaucrats while picking a fight with Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) for daring to support the move. 

“Utah politicians…

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

Multiple Republican lawmakers have called for legislation to protect Americans’ First…

Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) called for Biden administration Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm to resign following a testy Senate hearing. 

During the April 17 edition of Fox News’s Hannity, Hawley told host Sean Hannity, that…

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) went scorched earth on the massive George Soros-affiliated machine that went after Justice Clarence Thomas.

Lee exposed the hypocrisy of the Democrats who complained about dark money while benefiting from it and…

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.

MRC Free Speech America…

It appears that DirecTV dubiously dropping Newsmax and One America News within months of each other may be connected to the lawsuit by Dominion Voting Systems against the two news outlets.

AT&T, which holds the majority ownership…

Update: Elon Musk explained Sen. Mike Lee's (R-UT) brief suspension in a tweet. "His personal account (@BasedMikeLee) was incorrectly flagged as impersonation, which is not totally crazy, since it is based," Musk Tweeted.

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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.

Longtime Big Tech critic Rep…

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

Shortly after MRC Free Speech America released its study showing that Google suppressed Senate Republicans’ campaign websites in its search results, it…

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

The Journalism Competition…

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

Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) led 17 other Republican lawmakers who sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations…

Sen. 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…

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…

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…

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…

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. 

Conservatives ranging…

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…