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Joseph Vazquez | August 16, 2022

The New York Times is having another meltdown over so-called “election misinformation” on social media and trying to pressure Big Tech companies to up their already bloated censorship operations. 

Times technology reporter Tiffany…

Brian Bradley, Paiten Iselin | August 16, 2022

Big Tech sent a stark message to conservatives during the second quarter of this year that it will continue to fiercely protect President Joe Biden and censor viewpoints that differ from the left’s narrative on major political issues.

Autumn Johnson | August 14, 2022

China’s leading video game studio is reportedly gaining power in a world-famous video game company.

Earlier in the month, Reuters exclusively reported that Tencent, the communist country’s largest video game studio, is acquiring a greater…

Catherine Salgado | August 5, 2022

Former moderators for Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reportedly said that their training materials included a large amount of explicit child abuse videos and images.

Former third-party moderators for TikTok from the company…

The Chinese Communist Party-tied TikTok reached the climax of its lengthy battle with the Media Research Center’s video division by entirely axing it from the platform without notice.

An MRCTV staff member opened the TikTok App to find…

Catherine Salgado | July 29, 2022

A Chinese government public relations entity reportedly tried to open a “stealth” TikTok account to target Western audiences with propaganda.

A 2020 internal message to Elizabeth Kanter, TikTok’s head of government relations for the UK,…

Catherine Salgado | July 27, 2022

“It ends with China having all of your data,” popular podcaster Joe Rogan said of Americans’ use of TikTok on his show Tuesday.

Chinese employees from TikTok’s parent company, Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-tied ByteDance, have direct…

Catherine Salgado | July 21, 2022

More than half of Americans want app stores to remove TikTok following revelations that Chinese employees can directly access U.S. user data.

According to a new survey from The Trafalgar Group, 58.6 percent of Americans want TikTok to be…

NB Staff | July 21, 2022

Appearing late Wednesday/early Thursday on the Fox News Channel’s Fox News @ Night, MRC Founder and President Brent Bozell shared the findings of Free Speech America’s (FSA) blockbuster study on secondhand censorship by Big Tech, saying the…

Catherine Salgado | July 15, 2022

Woke pro-LGBTQ group GLAAD just gave five Big Tech platforms a failing score on LGBTQ “safety” online. 

“They don’t have enforcement,” GLAAD CEO Sarah Kate Ellis claimed July 14 on CBS Mornings.

Radical LGBTQ+ organization…

Catherine Salgado | July 13, 2022

[Editor's Note: This story has been changed to note that RuthSentUs is a parody Twitter account. A previous version of this story wrongly referred to the account as "radical pro-abortion protestors."]

The RuthSentUs and Antifa Sacramento…

Autumn Johnson | July 12, 2022

Communist China-tied social media giant TikTok is “pausing” its new privacy policy that was set to roll out in Europe.

TechCrunch reported that the new policy would have discontinued the platform’s request for user consent to receive…

Gabriela Pariseau | June 29, 2022

The Chinese Communist Party-affiliated TikTok “permanently banned” Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America after the Supreme Court on Friday overturned 1973’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision. The platform later quietly restored the account. 

Gabriela Pariseau | June 23, 2022

Big Tech companies have shown that science is only relevant when it’s not confirming biological facts about sex and gender, and they don’t hesitate to censor anybody who wields science against them.

MRC Free Speech America found and…

UPDATE: The Ruth Sent Us website remains operational, but Google removed the map containing the six Supreme Court justices' residential addresses. Users who attempt to access the map on the Ruth Sent Us site will find a notice that reads "[t]his…

Gabriela Pariseau | February 28, 2022

UPDATE: TikTok removed another Reality Check with Brittany Hughes clip and then restored it a couple of hours later since the publishing of this blog. Including the most recent incident, the platform censored MRC 18 times, 15 times in 2 months…

Alec Schemmel | August 18, 2021

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) appeared to be very unhappy with China’s new stake in TikTok. He called on the Biden administration to “take immediate action” to block the platform and its parent company ByteDance from operating within the United…

Gabriela Pariseau | April 30, 2021

Newly hired PragerU Personality Amala Ekpunobi said that TikTok permanently banned her from its platform immediately after two back-to-back politically motivated suspensions. 

In a PragerU video, Ekpunobi said that TikTok first…