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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…

Joseph Vazquez, Gabriela Pariseau | February 9, 2022

Big Tech speech restrictions turned COVID-19 into the most pro-censorship environment in the U.S. at least since World War II. Media Research Center has found more than 800 examples of bans, deleted content, and other speech restrictions related…

Joseph Vazquez | February 8, 2022

The Heritage Foundation released a damning report blasting censorship and showing that it has jumped fully into the fight against Silicon Valley speech controls.

Gabriela Pariseau | February 7, 2022

Twitter permanently suspended an anti-critical race theory organization, then reinstated the account after MRC Free Speech America asked the platform for an explanation. A Twitter spokesperson told MRC Free Speech America that the account…

Craig Bannister | February 7, 2022

Grammy Award-winning Country singer Travis Tritt thinks it’s strange that singers who trumpeted free speech in the 60’s and 70’s are now fighting against it. Travis Tritt Calls Out Musicians For

Joseph Vazquez | February 7, 2022

Twitter launched a new tool that allows users to secretly downvote tweets to see how the company could “better surface the most relevant content,” the platform said in an email to MRC Free Speech America. Twitter will be able to taint tweets that…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | February 2, 2022

It’s Episode Twenty-Three of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about how when Big Tech censors the speech of prominent figures, they’re censoring you, too.

Brian Bradley | January 31, 2022

The “Big Four” tech companies – Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple – spent more than $55 million lobbying the federal government in 2021 to stave off antitrust legislation. That’s a $21 million increase over 2020.