Free Speech

Chinese-owned app TikTok lost its main bid to halt a ban at the D.C. Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

The federal law takes effect on Jan. 19, effectively banning the Communist Chinese government-tied app unless its parent company ByteDance…

A member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has called for accountability for ad entities or “advertising cartels” actively crushing free speech.

FTC Commissioner Andrew Ferguson warned pro-censorship advertising and media ratings…

The Heritage Foundation has warned Americans against believing that Big Tech oligarchs want substantive reform while censorship continues on.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai called President-elect Donald Trump in late November, Amazon.com owner…

MRC Free Speech America has caught Google rigging search results for President-elect Donald Trump’s most prominent nominees before, and the search engine is at it yet again. 

On Nov. 26 and Dec. 3, the MRC found an absurd ratio in…

MRC Free Speech America Vice President Dan Schneider and the creators of a newly released documentary on free speech got to the heart of the decision that dealt a major blow to Big Tech censorship.

For the Dec. 4 edition of MRC…

A top Meta executive admitted to what many have long affirmed: its social media platforms are stifling Americans’ free speech and then citing errors when called out.

Meta Global Affairs President Nick Clegg made this mea culpa-like…

Before and after Election Day 2024, Big Tech platforms voted for election interference.

Google was the most egregious election censor, as MRC Free Speech America found the tech giant repeatedly burying right-leaning sources in search…

Big Tech’s censorship efforts just hit a yuuuge roadblock.

In a statement on Truth Social, incoming (and former) President Donald J. Trump announced that he will nominate competition hardliner Gail Slater to lead the Department of Justice…

Federal Communications Commissioner and incoming Chair Brendan Carr is offering details on how he will succeed in his pledge to, once and for all, “smash” Big Tech’s censorship regime, including entities like NewsGuard.

Carr came out…

Facebook pulled the trigger by suspending—and later reinstating—the page of one of the nation’s largest gun manufacturers.

The Mark Zuckerberg-owned social media platform targeted Smith & Wesson, a firearms manufacturer in business…

Trump named Stanford epidemiologist and staunch free speech advocate Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to lead a major branch of the Department of Health and Human Services. 

Trump cited Bhattacharya’s prestigious career and his role in…

Another alleged "error" came back to bite Facebook after it censored a Republican senator's post about releasing the Jeffrey Epstein flight logs. 

Controversy has surrounded talk of an alleged list of famous people who were involved…

President-elect Donald Trump has announced his nominees for the most visible positions at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Each is a staunch free-speech advocate, except for one, his pick for surgeon general.

Trump and…

Leftist panelists on CNN had an anti-free speech meltdown because X content is supposedly regulated less than CNN (spoiler alert, it’s not).

CNN pundit Scott Jennings ignited a firestorm on Monday’s NewsNight with Abby Phillip after he…

Trump’s FCC Chairman nominee Brendan Carr has his work cut out for him, explained a top Heritage Foundation researcher. 

In a recent interview with Fox News’s America’s Newsroom, Carr said that free speech will be one of his “top…

The clock is ticking on massively powerful, deceptive and independent artificial intelligence (AI) according to former Google CEO Eric Schmidt. 

Schmidt made some disturbing comments on AI during the Nov. 24 edition of CNN’s Global…

An Australian censorship bill went up in smoke over the weekend after it received abysmal support from the Australian Senate.

The Australian government announced Sunday that it had withdrawn a bill that would have fined tech platforms up…

The attorney general of Texas is investigating an effort by advertising firms to demonetize X and other platforms and coerce the platform into censoring its own users.

AG Ken Paxton announced Thursday that he’s launching an investigation…

The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon rebuked the rampant censorship deployed against his satirical news outlet under Twitter, the social media platform Elon Musk has transformed into X. 

During a Wednesday interview with PragerU CEO…

A federal agency is reportedly planning to put Google under federal supervision, making Google accountable to the government for its actions.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is aiming to put Google under formal federal…