State Department

Catherine Salgado | January 22, 2025

Newly sworn in Secretary of State Marco Rubio is already prioritizing free speech in a major change from the Biden State Department.

Tom Olohan | January 14, 2025

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg surprisingly opened up to podcast host Joe Rogan about the massive pressure the Biden administration and global governments put on Big Tech companies to censor speech. Zuckerberg is now calling for action.

Catherine Salgado | December 11, 2024

Another federal censorship agency bites the dust as the State Department dissolves its interagency censorship funding arm, the Global Engagement Center.

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…

Catherine Salgado | October 29, 2024

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee have taken leftist, biased media ratings firm NewsGuard to task for its ties to the Biden-Harris administration.

Catherine Salgado | September 27, 2024

Big Tech companies and government entities have united in an international push to control speech online and especially to control artificial intelligence (AI).

Catherine Salgado | September 20, 2024

A group of  Republican lawmakers are calling on the U.S. State Department to take a decisive stand against Brazil’s campaign to crush free speech online.

Catherine Salgado | September 13, 2024

A Republican-led congressional committee called out an office within the Biden-Harris State Department over its brazen anti-free speech activities.

Christian Baldwin | July 17, 2024

Mike Benz, the executive director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, discussed the government and military's alleged role in driving censorship on social media platforms by investing in AI technology.

Tom Olohan | July 9, 2024

Mike Benz, a free speech advocate and former State Department official, said there is still hope for free speech on MRC UnCensored. 

Christian Baldwin | June 28, 2024

Matt Taibbi, independent journalist and Twitter Files author, revealed the origins of the expansive government censorship enterprise working with social media to censor Americans.

Gabriela Pariseau | June 20, 2024

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to weigh in on whether the Biden administration has used federal agencies and Big Tech companies to systematically censor political opposition. The Biden administration has argued that the federal government has a…

Christian Baldwin | June 17, 2024

House Republicans are now pulling at another thread in the web of the Censorship Industrial Complex that has been directly funded by the American taxpayer.

 

Luis Cornelio | February 20, 2024

The Biden administration hinted that it may attempt to obstruct a congressional investigation into efforts to censor right-leaning outlets, documents revealed.

Tom Olohan | January 18, 2024

MRC President and Founder Brent Bozell highlighted a blistering exposé of the disturbing collusion between the federal government and private organizations to poison the minds of future generations against conservatives. 

Tim Kilcullen | January 17, 2024

Like the State Department before it, the DHS is using the University of Rhode Island’s Media Education Lab (the “Rhode Island Lab”) to accomplish its anti-American goals of training teachers to use censorship tools in the classroom and silence…

Luis Cornelio | January 10, 2024

MRC President and Founder Brent Bozell rebuked President Joe Biden’s State Department following MRC Free Speech America’s exposé on the government’s plot to brainwash children into becoming leftist activists through taxpayer-funded programs.

Luis Cornelio | January 5, 2024

Newly released emails show that an anti-free speech State Department subagency faced scathing accusations of “targeting Americans” through alleged taxpayer-funded plots.

Catherine Salgado | September 18, 2023

Following many revelations of the Biden administration’s shocking assault on the First Amendment, Biden’s Secretary of State is disingenuously giving lip service to the cornerstone of democracy, the freedom of speech.

Gabriela Pariseau | June 28, 2023

The ABC, CBS and NBC news shows completely ignored a new House bill amendment that would block the Department of Defense from pouring cash into censorship-obsessed anti-free speech organizations.