Free Speech

Alexander Hall | April 27, 2021

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) has won national renown for proposing legislation against Big Tech censorship. His bill was a great start, but conservative influencers claimed that it needed some key amendments in order to be most effective.

Gabriela Pariseau | April 27, 2021

The Babylon Bee CEO Seth Dillon told Fox News he was considering taking legal action against The New York Times after it labeled the satirical news site “misinformation.”

Babylon Bee has an established history as a popular satirical…

Heather Moon | April 27, 2021

A new study on fake news relied on questionable data and biased sources to blame the problem on the right. It also contained critical errors, leaving the accuracy of the results in question.

Research soon to be published in the American…

Autumn Johnson | April 26, 2021

Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe filed a defamation lawsuit against CNN after an anchor purportedly made a false claim about Twitter’s decision to permanently suspend his account. 

O’Keefe claimed that CNN anchor Ana Cabrera…

Alexander Hall | April 26, 2021

Google Drive has reportedly blocked a user from sharing a document containing a collection of negative incidents with COVID-19 vaccines. The document was filled with screenshots from well-known news sources like The New York Times and New York…

Kayla Sargent | April 26, 2021

The Senate has called Facebook, Twitter and Google executives back into the spotlight to testify before a subcommittee on the role their algorithms play in online discourse.

High-ranking Facebook, Twitter and Google employees will testify…

Autumn Johnson | April 25, 2021

A fake tweet purportedly placing the Chicago Police Department in solidarity with Derek Chauvin — the former cop convicted of killing George Floyd — has been retweeted nearly 50,000 times, but Twitter has refused to take it down.

The…

Autumn Johnson | April 24, 2021

Facebook has penalized The Babylon Bee after the site posted a story making fun of leftist rioters and looters. This was the latest run-in with Facebook for the Christian satire site. 

The satirical post was titled “rioting safely”…

Alexander Hall | April 23, 2021

Parler Interim CEO Mark Meckler explained in an interview that Parler’s app is returning to Apple’s App Store on the condition it comply with the platform’s rules. Mecklerr said that there will be alternate versions with different sets of rules…

Kayla Sargent, Michael Morris | April 23, 2021

In response to Big Tech's continued onslaught of censorship against conservatives, the Media Research Center has decided that we've had enough and so we've created a channel on Rumble to promote the use of free-speech-oriented platforms.…

Autumn Johnson | April 22, 2021

Twitter refused to investigate an inflammatory tweet by LeBron James for potential violations after the NBA superstar threatened an Ohio police officer. James went after the officer who shot and killed a 16-year-old African-American girl who…

Kayla Sargent | April 22, 2021

Apple has had a history of charging app developers fees for the honor of having an app in the App Store. But several companies have now accused Apple of “anticompetitive” practices in a Senate subcommittee hearing.

The hearing, entitled “…

Alexander Hall | April 22, 2021

Turning Point USA Founder and President Charlie Kirk issued a grim warning that conservatives need to revolutionize their strategy against Big Tech in an age where woke corporations dominate American life. 

The official TPUSA account…

Alexander Hall | April 22, 2021

Comedian, actor and commentator Russell Brand interviewed University of Toronto Psychology Professor Jordan Peterson and took time to hammer Big Tech companies. 

Brand, a famous liberal free thinker, torched the idea that Western…

Kayla Sargent | April 22, 2021

Facebook’s fact-checkers are covering for the left’s huge election power grab in H.R. 1. A far left AP fact-checker spent 850 words trying, and failing, to debunk a graphic about the bill. 

AP News fact-checked a graphic from the…

Autumn Johnson | April 21, 2021

The United States Postal Services has been quietly monitoring Americans’ social media posts, including posts about planned protests. At least some of that specifically targeted “right-leaning accounts.”

The surveillance program, known as…

Alexander Hall | April 21, 2021

The not-so-neighborly social media app Nextdoor revealed a new program that warns users to avoid posting language that it deemed “could be offensive.”

Phrases such as “All Lives Matter” will trip Nextdoor’s racism censor, apparently. The…

Alec Schemmel | April 21, 2021

Facebook has once again shown that on its platform only certain viewpoints are allowed in discussions about controversial topics.

Facebook announced it would be censoring so-called “misinformation” and “hate speech” regarding the verdict…

Heather Moon, Dan Gainor | April 21, 2021

By almost any measure, the first three months of 2021 were the worst ever for online freedom. Amazon, Twitter, Apple, Google, Facebook, YouTube and others proved to the world that the Big Tech censorship of conservatives is a reality. And they…

Alexander Hall | April 20, 2021

Far-left groups, including racial activists and socialists, used Facebook to organize 14 protests in eight days over the outcome of the Derek Chauvin trial. The site previously sheltered far-left Antifa-related activist organizations such as “All…