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Autumn Johnson | August 24, 2021

On Tuesday, The Washington Post lashed out at The Daily Wire for posting so-called misinformation that actually took the form of real news about COVID vaccines. Along with the Daily Wire, The Post also took aim at TMZ, The Epoch Times, and…

Tierin-Rose Mandelburg | August 23, 2021

Welcome to CensorTrack with TR, a weekly video series about Big Tech censorship. The Media Research Center’s CensorTrack.org will publish the most prominent and worst cases of conservative censorship as well as document cases involving everyday…

Gabriela Pariseau, Alec Schemmel | August 23, 2021

A Twitter account that tracks what it calls “The best of what’s happening on Twitter in an instant” shows just how biased the social media site really is. The account's leftist cultural and political news content outnumbers conservative content…

Autumn Johnson | August 21, 2021

Christina Pushaw is back on Twitter after a twelve-hour suspension -- and she's ready to set the record straight about Big Tech.

Governor DeSantis’s press secretary was suspended from Twitter Friday night after the Associated Press sent…

Autumn Johnson | August 20, 2021

On Friday night, Twitter decided that, without warning, it would temporarily suspend Christina Pushaw, the press secretary for Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. According to a screenshot from Pushaw, the ban will last 12 hours.

Autumn Johnson | August 18, 2021

"Why Trump's banned and the Taliban aren't: they play by the rules." Such was the absurd comment tweeted by Technology Policy Editor of The Washington Post Mark Seibel.

Facebook has issued a blanket ban on the Taliban…

Alexander Hall | August 18, 2021

Twitter is experimenting with an idea to manipulate willing users into acting as the platform’s censorship police in a new effort to crack down on online speech.

Twitter’s new and absurd feature is yet another way for the platform to…

Michael Morris | August 17, 2021

Big Tech tyranny knows no bounds. Big Tech companies have gone so far as to mandate COVID-19 vaccination for their employees, but now apparently even that isn’t enough. Some of those employees are being required to show proof.

“Google,…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 17, 2021

Members of Facebook’s Oversight Board revealed that the board prefers to operate under the guideposts of globalism and so-called consistency — not American values enumerated in the First Amendment.

Two Oversight Board members appeared at…

Autumn Johnson | August 15, 2021

A purported Taliban spokesman still has an active Twitter account, despite the platform's suspension of former President Donald Trump for “hateful” and “violent” content.

The Taliban is actively moving to retake Afghanistan after U.S…

Alec Schemmel | August 11, 2021

Social media helps bring government to the people. And then takes it away. Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have censored local government meetings and officials at least 15 times over roughly the last four months.

School board meetings,…

Autumn Johnson | August 7, 2021

Twitter has temporarily suspended conservative radio personality Erick Erickson for tweeting that Laurel Hubbard “is a man.”

Erickson was commenting on a post about the suspension of conservative commentator Allie Beth Stuckey, who had…

Autumn Johnson | August 6, 2021

Twitter has temporarily restricted the account of Liz Harrington, chief spokeswoman to former President Donald Trump (who is also a former MRC intern and former CNS News reporter).

Twitter said the account was restricted because it…

Autumn Johnson | August 5, 2021

Blaze Media’s Allie Beth Stuckey was locked out of her Twitter account on Thursday after she tweeted that Olympian Laurel Hubbard is “still a man.”

Hubbard, a New Zealand weightlifter, is a transgender woman who competed in the 2020 Tokyo…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 4, 2021

Twitter announced that it is teaming up with liberal news and fact-checking sites The Associated Press (AP) and Reuters to censor content by adding what the platform is calling “reliable context” to trending news.

Twitter explained in a…

Kayla Sargent | July 29, 2021

Big Tech companies are using the new Delta variant of COVID-19 to implement Orwellian policies for employees before they can go back to work. 

Companies like Twitter, Facebook and Google are taking steps to force their employees to…

NB Staff | July 26, 2021

Big Tech’s Online Freedom grade actually got worse in the second quarter of 2021, despite an appalling first quarter report card with a grade of “F.” Facebook led the plunge to yet another “F” for the industry intent on censoring conservative…

Gabriela Pariseau | July 23, 2021

YouTube applied its so-called “medical misinformation” policy more broadly than ever when the platform removed and then later restored content criticizing laws allowing 11-year-olds to be vaccinated without parental consent.

The platform…

Autumn Johnson | July 22, 2021

Senate Democrats introduced a bill on Thursday that would make Facebook liable for “misinformation” about the global pandemic.

The Health Misinformation Act, introduced by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), would use…

NB Staff | July 22, 2021

Over 40 conservative leaders have signed on to an open letter led by Media Research Center President L. Brent Bozell in calling on the federal government to cease its collusion with Big Tech. 

The open letter was first published as a…