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Autumn Johnson | March 29, 2022

A senior editor at The Federalist was locked out of his Twitter account over the weekend after he called Rachel Levine a man. According to The Federalist, Senior Editor John Daniel Davidson tweeted that Levine “is in fact a man” and was locked…

Autumn Johnson | March 25, 2022

Tesla’s Elon Musk tweeted in support of free speech and questioned Twitter’s “adherence” to it. Musk asked his followers to vote “yes” or “no” in a poll that asked his users whether the platform supported free speech.

Joseph Vazquez | March 24, 2022

Twitter mashed its SHUT UP button on Christian satire site The Babylon Bee. Twitter’s latest episode in its ongoing campaign to silence The Bee involved reportedly locking its founder Adam Ford out of his account for simply trolling the…

Catherine Salgado | March 24, 2022

To lobby, or not to lobby? That’s no longer a question for pro-censorship Twitter. A group of tech companies, including Twitter, are looking to push their policy objectives. Pro-censorship Twitter and Vimeo are among five companies forming the “…

Autumn Johnson | March 24, 2022

Twitter censored The Federalist’s reporting and warned that links to the publication’s reporting “may be unsafe.” According to The Federalist, Twitter displayed the following message to users who attempted to access the publication’s content: “…

Joseph Vazquez | March 21, 2022

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database reached an important milestone as it continues to monitor the war Big Tech companies have waged on free speech online.

Autumn Johnson | March 20, 2022

Twitter locked The Babylon Bee’s account Sunday evening. The platform locked the account after the satire site posted that Rachel Levine was the site’s “Man of the Year.” Levine is a transgender woman.

Autumn Johnson | March 20, 2022

Twitter Blocks Links To Daily Mail Article Questioning COVID-19 Deaths. The article was written by the Daily Mail’s deputy health editor, Eve Simmons, and alleged that the UK’s government may have vastly overstated the number of deaths from the…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | March 3, 2022

The infamous podcast host and mega free-speech advocate Joe Rogan interviewed former Islamist turned counter-extermism activist, Maajid Nawaz.

Gabriela Pariseau | March 3, 2022

Twitter locked Rep. Vicky Hartzler’s (R-MO) personal Twitter account for a tweet denouncing transgender athletes’ participation in women’s sports. Hartzler tweeted: “Women’s Sports are for Women, not men pretending to be women,” according to…

Catherine Salgado | March 1, 2022

DirecTV dropped Russian propaganda outlet RT America on Tuesday as a belated response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. DirecTV absurdly refused to renew One America News Network earlier this year while RT’s programming was only suspended…

Craig Bannister | March 1, 2022

Despite Russia’s invasion of Ukraine being condemned by the U.S. and kindred countries around the world, Twitter continues to allow Russian President Vladimir to post on its platform.

Catherine Salgado | February 28, 2022

Russian state-affiliated accounts on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are still allowed to influence their approximately 38.7 million followers even as Russia attacks Ukraine.

Alexander Hall | February 21, 2022

Former President Donald Trump’s Big Tech alternative platform Truth Social has gone online.

Catherine Salgado | February 18, 2022

If an establishment-challenging journalist receives a death threat, does Big Tech take the side of the victim or the victimizer? Journalist Andy Ngo said Twitter censored him with the claim that he violated the platform’s private information…

Catherine Salgado | February 17, 2022

Twitter aggressively suppressed the Hunter Biden corruption story. Now it has apparently decided against enforcing its “Distribution of hacked materials policy” as private information about GiveSendGo donors spread on the platform. This even…

Gabriela Pariseau | February 16, 2022

Twitter suspended the anonymous Defiant L’s account that exposed embarrassing liberal hypocrisy. The Defiant L’s Twitter account is known for tweeting images of ridiculous tweets from famous liberals or headlines from liberal outlets that…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | February 16, 2022

It’s Episode 25 of CensorTrack with TR. This week we’re talking about a study that MRC’s Free Speech America team recently conducted. Results showed that from March 2020 to Feb. 2022, Big Tech censored more than 808 COVID-19-related posts.

Autumn Johnson | February 15, 2022

Twitter has expanded its mode aimed at protecting user “safety.” The platform introduced “Safety Mode” in September of last year and said its aim was to “limit unwelcome interactions on Twitter.”

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | February 9, 2022

It’s episode twenty-four of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how Big Tech is censoring groups that advocate for traditional education, fight for parental voice and choice in classrooms and oppose Critical…