Free Speech

Alexander Hall | August 26, 2021

On Thursday afternoon, former Secretary of Defense Chief of Staff Kash Patel torched Twitter for hosting the Taliban, following horrific terror attacks on American troops in Afghanistan. Just the latest proof of how the social media site allows…

Alexander Hall | August 26, 2021

Podcast host Joe Rogan made a lucrative deal to move his podcast to Spotify, but the real price appears to be his reported loss of influence. Liberals have recently expressed apparent joy over the possibility that fewer people may be listening to…

Autumn Johnson | August 26, 2021

Facebook is reportedly creating an election commission to weigh in on political affairs across the globe, according to The New York Times.

The commission is expected to be announced just in time for the 2022 midterm elections in the…

Alec Schemmel | August 26, 2021

Twitter’s decision to ban “the alleged dictator of America, Donald Trump,” from its platform is startling in light of how the platform has treated accounts run by actual dictatorships like the Taliban and the Chinese Communist Party.

On…

Autumn Johnson | August 25, 2021

A committee in the South Korean parliament voted to recommend amending legislation that would ban Apple and Google from charging software developers mandatory fees for in-app purchases.

According to Reuters, Apple and Google charge…

Alexander Hall | August 25, 2021

Ohio State Representative Al Cutrona (R-OH) declared in a new statement that Big Tech “‘should not have the power to dictate what they deem as acceptable speech, that's exactly why we have the First Amendment and why I'm introducing this…

Alec Schemmel | August 25, 2021

Even after years of liberal media and politicians calling for the censorship of online speech, a plurality of Americans still say the government should not intervene — even at the cost of some false information slipping through.

A new…

NB Staff | August 25, 2021

Media Research Center President Brent Bozell, in conjunction with the Free Speech Alliance, joined 10 other conservative leaders in demanding the International Fact-Checking Network remove PolitiFact as a fact-checker for violating IFCN’s Code of…

Autumn Johnson | August 24, 2021

Leftist journalists appear to be setting their sights on Facebook after the platform allegedly shelved a controversial report from 2021’s first-quarter.

Facebook was accused of deliberately hiding its first-quarter report from the public…

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…

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. “…

Autumn Johnson | August 24, 2021

Facebook is doubling down on its efforts to suppress conservative satire, according to Seth Dillion, CEO of The Babylon Bee.

Dillon said Facebook uses biased fact-checkers to flag content that leans conservative, especially satire that…

Alexander Hall | August 23, 2021

U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy nagged social media companies for not doing more to censor so-called misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to Murthy in an August 22 appearance of CNN’s State of the Union, the…

Heather Moon | August 23, 2021

A new Facebook report proved the @FacebooksTop10 daily list of 10 most-engaged link posts each day is wildly misleading, given that posts with the most views got far more engagement than posts on the list. 

Facebook’s recent Q2 2021…

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 23, 2021

An independent fact-checker has instructed readers to “proceed with caution” when viewing content from PragerU.

NewsGuard described itself as “The Internet Trust Tool,” and claimed it rates websites for truth and credibility. NewsGuard…

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.