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Joseph Vazquez | October 28, 2021

“Spending is the real problem,” said the world’s richest man when he dismantled the logic behind the Democratic Party’s latest class warfare tax-the-rich scheme.

Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter in response to a…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | October 27, 2021

It’s Episode Nine of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about the newest trend for sporting events, bumper stickers, T-Shirts, and songs, “Let’s Go Brandon,” and how Big Tech is exhausting all efforts to silence the…

Autumn Johnson | October 23, 2021

On Friday, a federal judge ruled that Texas can seek files on content moderation from Facebook and Twitter.

According to Bloomberg, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) can seek limited discovery from the Big Tech giants…

Autumn Johnson | October 23, 2021

UPDATE: Reacting to his suspension, Banks released the following statement:

My tweet was a statement of fact. Big Tech doesn't have to agree with me, but they shouldn't be able to cancel me. If they silence me, they will silence you. We…

Joseph Vazquez | October 23, 2021

Liberal Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey shocked the Twitterverse with a warning about impending hyperinflation in the world, and predicted it would soon hit the United States.

Dorsey, who oversees one of the largest offenders of Big Tech…

Catherine Salgado | October 22, 2021

Twitter’s bout with free speech online continues. The platform censored U.S. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for stating in a tweet that transgender admiral Dr. Rachel Levine was not “the first female anything” but a “dude who lived…

Autumn Johnson | October 21, 2021

An internal study published by Twitter on its algorithms indicated that the platform actually amplifies right-of-center voices over left-leaning ones.

The reality, however, is more complicated.

Rumman Chowdhury, the head of…

Catherine Salgado | October 20, 2021

Twitter Vice President of Trust and Safety Del Harvey has announced she is leaving the company. Harvey has been praised for making Twitter safe, but in fact she left a legacy of biased censorship.

Del Harvey announced via tweet thread…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | October 20, 2021

The Media Research Center’s newest video series CensorTrack with TR dives into cases of online censorship every Wednesday. This week, the very show itself was a victim of censorship. 

On September 30, episode five was released. It…

Alexander Hall | October 19, 2021

Twitter appears to be up to its usual tricks. The platform reportedly censored Grabien Founder and Editor Tom Elliott for questioning the COVID-19 narrative.

Mollie Hemingway, Senior Editor at The Federalist, is having none of it. “…

Catherine Salgado | October 15, 2021

Apparently Twitter’s guidelines about violence only apply to Donald Trump, not communist Chinese state-controlled news outlets. The Global Times threatened Taiwan and potential allies with becoming “cannon fodder” on Twitter, and Twitter has not…

Catherine Salgado | October 14, 2021

Twitter has published a list of suggestions for policy makers on how best to regulate Big Tech. But the platform has a history of extreme bias. At least one of Twitter’s suggestions also sounds suspiciously like, “We need more censorship.”

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | October 13, 2021

It’s Episode Seven of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week we talked about the Free Speech America study which reported that Big Tech censors GOP congressmen by 54 to 1 more than Democrats.   

Big Tech…

Alec Schemmel, Dan Gainor | October 12, 2021

Big Tech censorship didn’t just repeatedly restrict and finally ban President Donald Trump. Social media companies overwhelmingly censored Republican members of Congress by a rate of 54-to-1 compared to congressional Democrats, according to a new…

Autumn Johnson | October 9, 2021

A new statement from President Biden on the spread of COVID is being criticized on Twitter for its inconsistency with other statements.

Earlier in the week, Biden defended enacting vaccine mandates on the grounds that people who go to the…

Gabriela Pariseau | October 6, 2021

Twitter, your bias is showing! The platform appears to have chosen not to enforce its rules on “targeted harassment” even when Jezebel told its readers they should “Absolutely Bully” Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).

Jezebel, a vehemently…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | October 6, 2021

It’s Week Six of MRC’s new video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about how Big Tech protects transgender content regardless of fact or fiction. But social media companies censor conservative content, accounts, and thought.…

Autumn Johnson | October 3, 2021

UPDATE: Twitter appears to have removed the "misleading" label.

Twitter users are slamming the platform after it labeled an obituary “misleading.”

“Jessica Berg Wilson, 37, of Seattle, Wash., passed away unexpectedly Sept. 7, 2021…

Autumn Johnson | October 3, 2021

Former President Donald Trump is suing Twitter to get his account reinstated, the Washington Examiner reports.

Trump was permanently banned from Twitter after the Jan. 6 riot in Washington, D.C. For his part, Trump said Twitter…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | September 29, 2021

It’s Week Five of MRC’s newest video series, CensorTrack with TR. This week, we talked about how Big Tech firms often shut down any conversation that doesn’t fit their agenda. 

The focus this week was on founder James O’Keefe’s…