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Alec Schemmel | September 2, 2021

Google-owned Youtube was caught censoring a historical documentary about the American Revolution.

The YouTube video titled “History: The American Revolution 1776 Documentary,” was restricted until Free Speech America inquired with the…

Alexander Hall | August 27, 2021

Oscar-winning filmmaker Errol Webber released a takedown of California Governor Gavin Newsom. YouTube predictably responded by covering it in warnings.

Webber, who ran for congress in California last year, released a scorching video…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 27, 2021

YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan said in a recent blog post that the platform has “removed over 1M videos” with information on COVID-19 since February 2020. He justified censorship in favor of “accountability” and “balance” on the…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 24, 2021

YouTube’s Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan admitted on The Verge’s Decoder podcast that the removal of YouTube videos for so-called “misinformation” is merely “[a] very, very small portion” of the content that the platform purges.

Mohan…

Alexander Hall | August 24, 2021

Former President Donald Trump has demanded access to mainstream social media platforms once again. 

Trump made political engagement via social media an art, and he’s pushing for a grand reentrance onto the mainstream platforms. “…

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…

Autumn Johnson | August 16, 2021

YouTube received criticism from a U.S. congresswoman after it reportedly removed a video of a news conference that discussed a legal challenge to Mayor Bill de Blasio’s “vaccine passports.”

In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal,…

Alec Schemmel | August 13, 2021

Grabien Founder and Editor Tom Elliott “suspected this was coming.” Elliott said the company, which provides a suite of tools for newsmakers and curates its own original news content, had its YouTube channel demonetized.

Demonetization,…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 13, 2021

Fox News host Tucker Carlson said that mainstream news outlets should consider it their “duty” to reject Big Tech censorship before ultimately claiming “that's not going to happen.”

Carlson criticized the blatant hypocrisy of “legacy…

Alec Schemmel | August 12, 2021

YouTube alternative Rumble is gaining traction among more than just conservatives. The video-sharing platform just welcomed a diverse group of big name voices.

Rumble announced that “eight nationally recognized thought leaders” would be…

Gabriela Pariseau | August 11, 2021

YouTube appeared to remove Senator Rand Paul’s (R-KY) video protesting the platform’s censorship and reportedly suspended him for seven days. “Apparently, because I dared to contradict Dr. Fauci and the government YouTube removed my video,”…

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 1, 2021

Sky News Australia is banned from uploading content to YouTube for seven days after the Big Tech giant accused the site of violating its medical misinformation policies.

YouTube said the news site posted videos denying the existence of…

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…

Alexander Hall | July 22, 2021

Big Tech platform YouTube has censored yet another head of state for the unforgivable: He dared to question the liberal narrative concerning COVID-19.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has reportedly been punished by YouTube for sharing…

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…

Kayla Sargent | July 14, 2021

Big Tech’s war against conservative voices has reached new heights. But MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack team has exposed the left’s  online censorship by amassing 2,500 individual cases to hold Big Tech accountable. 

The…

Casey Ryan | July 7, 2021

The battle against Big Tech and woke corporations took another dramatic turn in June as conservatives confronted another hard truth. Not only must Americans face the fear that Big Tech can censor them at a moment’s notice, but now woke…

Alexander Hall | June 29, 2021

So much for YouTube’s brief neutrality. After a rare case of censoring an organization on the left, YouTube has now reinstated the anti-conservativeoperation known as Right Wing Watch. YouTube claimed that the ban was an accident.

Right…